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My chicks have hatched! I ordered 40 from eBay, one was cracked. When I candled a few days ago, I found 2 had small cracks I had missed and didn’t develop. Almost all of the bubbly air cells didn’t develop, in the end I have 18 chicks, all kind of boring messy rosetta tuxes. They’re supposed to...

I just got this election ad thing in the mail, it’s a good pic of the cause of the flood:

I do the same. My pizza place puts the fries and spoons and stuff into a shallow box made from cutting down wine boxes, and the birds love those, they’re open topped, and I feel like they prefer open topped boxes filled with chips, and upside down cave type boxes are preferred over dirt. They...

Mine are very sweet, we raised them from eggs, they imprinted to my daughter and they followed her, cried for her etc. they do peck out of curiosity and it is often quite hard, and they try to take my rings, but theyve never broken the skin. Mine are midget whites, so maybe it’s because they...

We didn’t have issues until the flood gate couldn’t close because a train was stuck on tracks right where the gate needed to close, the river rose like 40 feet and most of my town was under water, I thought I was lucky because we are at the highest point, I literally had water like 20 feet from...

Thru a series of unfortunate events, tree branch crushed my greenhouse last winter and caged birds got soaked and died, 100 year floods brought crazy predators, and recently a giant stray cat ripped into my prefab growout and pulled my birds out, I lost all my quail, Aragorn had been injured by...

My reship of the cinnamon Coturnix eggs arrived Saturday, the box was open, creased, a big treadmark along one side and a huge tear across the top, looks like it got caught in a machine and the side roller pushed and pushed from the side, and drove it into something up top that tore it. Most of...

They really are good looking! That bottom one is a perfect example of calico for articles about how a calico differs from a wild pattern if you ever get the itch to write one.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-broody-coturnix-quail.1470804/ I documented my broody hatching and raising her chicks in that thread, feel free to use the pics.

I locked down the cinnamons from southwest gamebirds and only 3 of 18 developed and one looks like a recent quitter. I’m so disappointed, when that box arrived, sideways in the cold, all wet, and they didn’t ring the bell, I suspected poor results. The blacks I had shipped from Garrie Landry in...

Looks like rosetta, once it’s out of the ugly teenager stage post some more, it could be Tibetan, or have something else in there, but it’s most likely rosetta.

I received my cinnamon Coturnix eggs from southwest gamebirds on Friday, none were cracked. My mailman has been occasionally doing this thing where he puts the boxes in the corner of the porch next to the door, against the wall. If I look out the window I can’t see it, if I open the door, I have...

I’ve been suspicious that my older 3 chicks from the hen who died are all males, and yesterday they all showed red feathers coming in around the vent :( no new mate from those guys. I have 8 more from the second group of chicks, they are only a week or so old, so no idea on gender yet.

Pics from the 7 in the brooder: Here’s the fresh one in the bator, just hatched: By the time I posted these it was up and running, but here it is as it’s deciding to get up for the first time haha:

About a month ago, my last darth Vader button hen passed away when she made a crazy escape attempt flight while I filled the water, and hit the wall hard, about 12 feet up and tumbled to the floor dead. I had just started getting eggs, so I took the 8 or so eggs I had collected, and I set them...

If you cross silver to silver, you have a 25% chance of a double silver (white) chick. Often these manifest as just eggs that don’t thrive, so you never knew you had doubles. But as your group ages and grow, is very possible that natural selection has weeded out some of the issues, and more are...

Incompletely dominant means that it mostly overtakes the other genes, so a bird with one copy of the gene will look different than a bird with 2 copies. With the fawn (Italian) gene, 1 copy makes it italian patterned and 2 copies makes it manchurian. In silver, one copy makes it silver (dilutes...

Silver is incompletely dominant, it spreads quickly.

I ordered some yesterday! So excited, the earliest ship date was March 1st.

Today I locked down 8 darth Vader button eggs, and 6 Coturnix. 2 of the Coturnix eggs have very oddly placed air cells. One is directly on the pointy side of the egg, the other is on the side of the pointy end, and has a small moving bubble within the air cell. I’ve seen this in shipped eggs...