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Gorgeous eggs! I may have to get a Welsummer roo to cross with my Ameraucanas and Cream Legbars - I love that shade of green. My BCMarans roo will throw a darker olive. Unfortunately, I gave most of the crosses to my brother and the remaining one got killed by a hawk a month or two ago -...

I use this method too and it works very well. The sooner they are outside and on soil the better.

So sorry for you loss. Even when you know it's coming and she was ready it is still very difficult. Sending you love and healing.

Hi Everyone! Haven't been on in a while, busy with the remodel which is finally in the final stretches (maybe move into the main house sometime in March). Penny, sorry to hear about your mom's decline. I pray that she has a peaceful passing when the time comes and is surrounded by love...

I'm no expert but here are my suggestions based on my experience and what I would do in your case: The fact that she is half the weight of your others tells me it's more than just the molting. I would suspect a parasite and perhaps coccidiosis. I had two nearly POL pullets last year go like...

Wow, that seems like a lot of food to me. I just tracked my feed for the first time this past month since I have my largest number of chickens to date - just over 30. I only have 8 hens, 2 of whom just completed being broody and are raising one chick each - so they didn't eat much for that...

Darn typing on phone!! I correct so many "autocorrects" and still ended up with bloodies!! I had already corrected it from broodiest. Ugh. I can only post pics from my phone though.

So I woke up to find an adorable chick under one of our bloodies today!!! Her eggs were due to hatch last weekend and since she's been broody since July with various mishaps I was going to break her. I hadn't gotten around to it yet and suspected she may have a chick yesterday since she seemed...

I was thinking it could be just these cups. I may try again in the future but I think these will go back, otherwise I will have $25 into it plus new cups, don't know that it's worth it for this particular waterer. Thanks!

That's what I am planning on doing. It sounded from your post like you were going to shoo her off the nest daily and I wondered if that would work... You have far more experience than I so I was just wondering.

How are you going to break her?

I feel ya. I have a broody who first went broody in July - she hid a clutch of 10 eggs in our ramshackle solarium (we're renovating). When I found the nest I candled and there were 6 or so viable eggs. I had collected the eggs for candling and my husband moved her to a new nest in one of our...

I'm curious to know how these work out. I just bought a premade waterer with 2 cups from Coastal Farm and Ranch and the little yellow toggle has to be pushed too far down and the chickens weren't using it. Had to go back to the old gravity waterer. We have an auto waterer we will be installing...

If anyone still wants chicks, the Monroe Co-op still has a great selection! I just drove over an hour yesterday to get some of their week old chicks. I had to narrow it down to 3 breeds and I got 2 of each: Dark Brahma, Partridge Rock, Buckeye. I'm already so happy with these - they are so...

Thank you @penny1960 - always looking for more coop ideas! ;)

@penny1960 do you have a picture of your geodisc coop?

@Manningjw Can you tell me 1) what are the University of Arkansas blue egg layers (breeds in their make-up, type, temperament, etc) and then 2) those crossed with your Leghorn/Ams, what type of chick is this producing along those lines (type, temperament, looks, etc) other than laying a blue...

That sucks all around. Geez people! If I were to sell eggs they would be my cleanest, best formed eggs. I'm not looking to make a buck though. I have eggs in the bator going in to their 3rd week - this is my second hatch. First hatch was 3rd week of April - I set 32, pulled 8 infertile...

I should have worded that better - all experiences/opinions are welcome! I am just done with having to watch out for an aggressive rooster for me and my family. Our BCM regularly attacks my husband and I walk around with a rake! He will be replaced soon enough - in the last month he has...

I lost 2 Ameraucanas last August that went downhill over a 2-3 day period. I treated for vent gleet, but after talking to the breeder months later who suggested coccidiosis I wonder if that was it. Mine were about the same age - they seemed fine but all of a sudden went downhill. When I picked...