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So I've been successfully using the horizontal nipple waterers for a couple of years now and really enjoy them. Recently we purchased 15 chicks from the feed store and it took a few days for me to notice that one came home with us with only 1 eye. She seems healthy otherwise.. A little...

HI all - We hatched out 4 chicks for the first time 7 weeks ago. 1 BCM, 2 Wheaten Ameraucana and an OE. They all seem to be doing well (eating, drinking, running around, avoiding the older chickens, etc..) One of the AMs though, seems to sit whenever she's not moving. She'll hang...

Hi Everyone! Our broody mamma who hatched these eggs has officially kicked the new chicks to the curb (so to speak). I'm curious what genders we have here: Wheaten Ameraucana #1. Slightly smaller than #2, but otherwise too identical at this point to tell them apart. I believe this...

We hatched 4 chicks about 1 month ago under a broody hen in the coop. Currently they are occupying a box on the floor of the coop with mama hen. All is going well. I know at some point mama will kick 'kick them to the curb' and they will have to fend on their own. Is that when mama will...

I'm kind of dumbfounded at the moment with what I found tonight when I got home from work... I went down to give the chickens a treat and noticed one of my girls had a really poopy rear end. Large crusty stripe coming from her vent. I didn't think too much about it as she was running...

At some point today my broody stretched her legs, and the proceded to get back on the wrong nest. When I got home from work she was happily trying to hatch absolutely nothing. The nest box next door had 8 cold eggs. Unknown how long they were uncovered, but it could be up to 12 hours...

We are researching adding a blue egg layer (or 2 or 3) to our flock. Along with healthy birds, our goal is to create a colorful (and full!) egg basket. I was curious how the eggs of Ameraucana, Araucana, and Legbar compared to one another in regard to size, color, frequency, etc. I've read...

So I was researching blue egg layers and came across 2 names I was unfamiliar with: Dongxiang and Lushi. Apparently both from China. Googling has led me in circles with no information about them other than they lay blue eggs. They're not listed in the breed list on this site nor do I find...

We've all seen the "how a baby chick develops" science fair projects. They're cool and informational. A good demonstration of scientific principles.. We would like to do a project that answered a scientific question - ie. "What happens if we do XYZ, and why?" However we're not coming up...

5 girls, 11 months old. All good buddies, no negative behavioral issues noted. 4 Have molted and have been laying for about 2 weeks now (took a 3 month break due to winter and molting). The girl with diarrhea is still doing a soft-molt, which I thought might be the cause - but the...

I know there are probably easier ways to accomplish what I've done here... But I like to tinker and I had most of these parts laying around (except the LED lights themselves). The programming works like this: Real Time Clock with battery backup accurately keeps track of time. Every...

Spring is on the way, and I'm anticipating my forever-broody hen will be in the mood soon. I don't want to buy right now, but looking for contacts when the time comes to hatch some eggs. Looking for Black or BBS Autralorps and White Leghorn hatching eggs. After getting some pretty...

I know the egg song was an indicator that my young birds were about ready to lay. We're at 9 months old now and along with dealing with very short days (Latitude 48), we're going through a pretty decent molt. It's been 1.5 - 2 months since we've had any eggs. Yesterday and today I've heard...

I feel bad for the girls because we're getting some pretty heavy rain here in Western Washington (Surprise, I know...) They make me laugh though, because when I open the pop door in the morning and all come racing out.. Notice it's raining, and then hide UNDER the coop. So they move from a...

Etta, one of my young Faverolles threw up a red flag a few days ago when I noticed that she was walking strangely. She's not acting too weird, limping or noticeably favoring one foot, but sometimes will walk a bit sideways. When I throw out some treats, all the girls come straight at me...

I have a 4x8x4+ coop as shown here: We started with 8 chicks which would satisfy the 4sq feet per bird, but 1 rooster and a dog "incident" later we now have just 5 healthy girls. I love seeing them wandering my yard, and am now totally spoiled on fresh eggs. Unsurprisingly chicken math has...

We have 4 Faverolles girls. About 9 months old now. For the first 5 months or so, all of them grew at basically the same rate. But one of the girls has since quit growing (or at least, she's growing a lot slower than the others). She seems healthy, lays eggs (I think! It's hard to tell...

So some of my girls have been getting kind of crusty. Especially the Faverolles with their big beards, muffs and feathered feet. I should have gotten some before and after pictures, because they really did clean up nicely. But the "just out of the bath" pictures cracked me up because they...

So last night I go down to the coop to put the girls to bed, and 1 of them is in the nest box. "Great" I think. 6 months of sleeping perfectly on the roost and now one decides that she's changed her mind... So I reach in to move her and she puffs up, pecks me, and makes a low screechy trill...

We have 3 young girls just at POL. 2 of the 3 layers are dutifully laying in their super deluxe boxes (with golf ball lures) as intended. 1 of the girls has decided that next to our old stack of scrap lumber is a nicer place. It seems weird to me, because they do like to hang out there, but...