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Okay I read the black sex link portion and guess I understand better now - black chicks with white spots would be male, black with no spots female, great link, thanks Ron!

Oh my, look at all that boyish charm! So let me ask, besides the fairly obvious combs, I notice that there are two who look darker/browner/less barred than the others, and I'm not sure whether it's the picture or a delayed autosexing feature coming through, if in fact those two are the ones you...

I finally have some pics to share of the Silkies I hatched NYD and the following Saturday. The LF chicks all went to a new home today before I was able to get pics of them, which is fine, I picked up 36 eggs today to set and even though I managed to put my back out today, with a bit of luck we...

I, too, would eagerly follow this experiment either here or on its own thread, so please let us know if another thread is started on this experiment. ChickenCanoe, I commend you for committing to this - it is very time-consuming, and I have long wondered whether fermenting for chicks was worth...

LOL I doubt you are "this old" - and hey, it beats the alternative! And I want that in my kitchen too!!! That's adorable!!

Congratulations to all the winners and participants, and heartfelt thanks to all who offered information, support, encouragement and camaraderie. This was the first time I participated in a hatch-along and it was a lot more educational that I expected! Ron, thank you a thousand times for being...

I was chuckling at the notion of being asleep at 4 pm - DH and I both fell asleep watching a movie yesterday afternoon, luckily I had already given everyone their afternoon scratch, woke up in time to down a cup of coffee and hustle outside to collect dishes, turn off the radio in the big coop...

If a hen is inclined to be broody, she can possibly be encouraged by leaving eggs/fake eggs in the nest. The magic number is said to be 7, although I have not tried this so I don't have personal experience to go by. If it's a hen that has no interest, nothing will encourage her. Hatcheries...

That's a good sized bird, for sure, but nothing like the BBB a friend raised last year that hit 53 lbs before processing LOL. I have never raised any kind of turkey, so this will be a learning curve for me if I hatch any. Fingers crossed!

ChickenCanoe, those pics are just heartwarming, all those beautiful, healthy chicks! Glad you had such a nice hatch - I notice there seems to be variation in how much yellow the chicks have on their faces, does that indicate anything about their appearance as adults? I do not envy the weather...

Susceptibility is primarily between the ages of 5 weeks and 5 months. Once they are 6 months or older their immune systems should be able to deal with it. There are never guarantees, these are living beings.

Marek's is the bane of my existence. I lost an entire shipment of beautiful Speckled Sussex chicks to Marek's. It has multiple forms, and once a bird becomes symptomatic it is almost always fatal (the percentage of those surviving it is fractional, and most of those birds are compromised for...