eggs

Hi everyone!!! I'm a new wannabe chicken farmer in SoCal and was interested were everyone gets their egg cartons from? Has anyone used these sites before? eggcartons.com easyeggcartons.com eggcartonstore.com Appreciate the recommendations!

So year before last all 40 of my starter flock stopped laying within a week of each other. I changed coop arrangements, fenced, then free ranged, rooster then no roo, followed all the advice i found here. Nothing worked. In autumn i moved them into winter coops and still, maybe 5-7 eggs from...

Hi everyone. I have a vet appointment on Wednesday and I have the option to give two of my hens that have issues a Suprelorin implant. My EE (3 years) that was previously egg bound with a bursted shell less egg. She has been very active and acting very healthy, however still has watery poo...

Hi, We had a hen that injured one of its toes...we don't know how it happened but we noticed one day that our hen had a toe nearly torn off. Eventually the toe did fall off. The hen appears to have healed and is now moving around normally. We did not do any sort of doctoring. She is now...

I have two sets of breeding quail. They are 9 weeks old today. Ratio is 4 hens to each male. I feed them 30 percent protein game starter. They each have their own rabbit hutch that is 2ft by 4ft with an enclosed nesting area. They have free choice feed and water. They have been out in the bigger...

Here is mama hen keeping watch over her GROWN 4 month old babies, who are fully capable of taking care of themselves. She has fully regained her pre-brooding weight for atleast 2 months, and molted after brooding, still no eggs. Am at a loss. They hatched in december and it's now beginning...

Hello All! The kids were enjoying getting and eating local eggs from a nearby farm we decided we would see if we couldn't raise some birds and get our own eggs from the garden! So we have 5 hens now and I'm looking for some advice on feeding strategies. I have been told that layers pellets +...

Hi guys I live in Western Australia and am currently incubating quail and chicken eggs. tonight will be day 4. please see the pictures attached Question 1 1) the incubator says 40.3 degrees Celsius 2) the one below it is a hygrometer / thermometer all in one (this sits against the wall no...

I have a friend that is Hatching eggs with her kids as a homeschool project,They started incubating about three hours ago in the incubator. Will it affect the eggs if they delay them by a day and start it tomorrow now after they’ve already been incubating for three hours? they didn’t realize...

So one of my girls (idk which one) laid an unusually small egg, but not small enough to really be considered a fart egg. No idea if the size of it is the cause of this, but when I boiled it up, the yolk had the same [maybe a smidge rubberyer, snapped instead of crumbled when torn apart, shiny...

My hen sits on her eggs, but I think they are dead eggs. We are on day 4 and I don’t see development. Is it safe to remove the eggs or should I keep them with her for a little longer ?

I wanna see everyone's lovely meals from the eggs of your precious flocks. I'll go first! Here's my fried egg from breakfast on some ham and freshly homemade bread (made by my awesome mom) with some cheese, tomatoes, and such. It's wonderful to get some amazing breakfasts from the eggs of my...

We have four OE that are currently laying (the others are five weeks old and not in flock) Sharing their colored eggs over the past couple of weeks as the last two days I have gotten pale minty(ish) green ones from them! Lol Yes, we did change feed, from commercial to a feed mill, same...

I'll be doing a hatch-along with twelve eggs! I might as well tell you guys about the eggs! x3 Easter eggers with a grassy green colouration and a cyan hue. x6 Silkie bantams. (Most likely white in colouration, as the mother was a white silkie.) x3 unknown eggs, that are possibly...

Does anybody have tips on how to hatch eggs or just useful information that I might need? If you do, please say, as I'm new to raising chickens. I also have pets I need to teach to not try to eat the chicks/eggs. 1. An older, gentle black cat. 2. An excitable rottweiler. 3. A loving...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm new to chickens, but currently I have some eggs I am hoping to hatch, with help from you guys! (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Well, none currently, but I have twelve eggs! (3) What breeds do you have? I have silky...

Hello all, I have a Farm Innovators 4250 styro incubator. It's worked great twice now and I like it. I started a batch of eggs today and the temperature started fluctuating like crazy. I've had it on for about 5 days now, and the biggest difference I've seen is about 1.5° F in opposite corners...

I have a chicken who keeps pacing in her run to her coop. when she is in her coop she is scratching all of the bedding out of her nesting box like she is mad that I put it there. But it’s to the point where she is scraping the bottom with her nails and just won’t stop. What in the heck is...

So my moms friend has a mated pair of sun conures. She recently asked me if I would incubate some eggs. I know nothing about incubating conure eggs, is there anyone that could give me the ins and outs of trying this? I have a NR360. I haven’t given her a yes or no answer yet as I don’t even know...

Help! Are my duck eggs fertilized??! I have one drake and the rest are hens I cracked these open because I read in Google you can tell. I still can’t tell. Anyone have advice??