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Safe to sell these marans now? Are they cockerels? They are approximately 4 months old and looking more and more like roos every day. Don't wanna accidentally sell a hen!!

During the fall we had our Mama hen and 3 chicks in a separate pen with a little dog house coop. When they were about a week old one chick mysteriously disappeared. The only evidence was a hole. We figured snake or rat. I filled the hole with a big rock and moved the birds into our main coop...

Hey All- Our hen just got broody and I am worried that it will be getting too cold in the next 21 days we are in the mountains nights are dropping into the 50's already.... I want to sneak some fertilized eggs under her (she's on golf balls). Is it worth a shot? Thanks!! Jesse

Found an egg in a different place today... did the float test and it sunk right away so thought it would be ok. When cracked it just fell out of the shell very fast and the yoke was runny all mixed in with the white. Is it bad?

We have a small borrowed styrofoam one... I think I would have done a much better job not intervening if I had one with more room. Once our hatchlings started standing up they were bumping their little heads into the heating element so I ended up moving them to the brooder. I'm concerned that...

I have a borrowed incubator. It has two holes on the top which are covered with duct tape? I assume these are the plug holes and they were just lost. I need to open them up for lockdown correct?

Our hens have 1/2 acre fenced where they free range each day. There are several goat houses and the coop. For several evenings our Mama hen would roost in one of the goat houses and I would have to move her and chicks each night into the coop. Last night she was back in the coop for the first...

Is there a post already started somewhere for hatching buddies?! This is my first time incubating. How important is the humidity? Should I go get a thermometer that reads humidity too? I've just been making sure it doesn't run out of water in the channels. When I candled last week ... all 14...

New here- hello all! We have 4 new chicks who are hen raised and 14 more in the incubator who will be human raised. I have lots of questions. I can only control what they eat a little b/c they are free range with our flock and their Mama during the day... but I have been giving them medicated...