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Good morning favorite people! We had a broody hen successfully hatch 3 chicks a month ago. She has been a great little mama and used to nest with her chicks in a corner of the coop after they hatched. She has recently decided that she really prefers to sleep and to give them nap time in one of...

We have a 6 month old hen that is due to hatch eggs in 4 days. She went broody and seemed pretty determined to hatch her egg, so I slipped 3 other eggs from 1 year old hens in with hers. We also have 8 other hens and 1 rooster in our flock. Her nesting box is about a foot off the floor of the...

Please help! Our rooster has had some sort of trauma to his comb, wattles and his right eye (which is shut). There was quite a bit of blood coming from his comb and wattles. I sprayed the area with Vetericyn and isolated him from the rest of the flock. We have recently introduced new 7-week-old...

We are new to raising chickens and have hatched our chickens from carefully selected breeders (except one wildcard because I wanted particular breed). The chicks from the wildcard breeder turned out to not be the anticipated breed (surprise) and have developed problems with walking. One was a...

We are new to raising chickens and have hatched our chickens from carefully selected breeders (except one wildcard because I wanted particular breed). The chicks from the wildcard breeder turned out to not be the anticipated breed (surprise) and have developed problems with walking. One was a...

We have a 5 month Orpington pullet that started limping about 4 days ago. I am new to raising chickens, these are our first and we hatched them from eggs. A very "chicken-experienced" friend of mine (she is a breeder with 400+ chickens) looked at her foot 2 days ago and did not see anything...

Where should you keep the food and water - in the coop or run? And why? I know this is a pretty basic question but I’m new to this.

We have 9 week old chicks in our new coop and just introduced our 4 week old chicks into their new home with them. We created a brooder under the roosting bars with 1/2” hardware cloth on the front so that they can see and not touch each other. Let’s just say there was a LOT of “talk” going on...

Our chicks are 8 weeks old now and we notice that they rub their beak across our hand fairly often. Does anyone know why they do this?

My new Brinsea Ovation 28 EX has malfunctioned. Yesterday, the temperature spiked to 102.2 F so I called Brinsea and they are sending a new incubator which should arrive today before 3 pm. Is there ANYTHING that I can do to save these embryos in the meantime?

Help please. We have a 3 1/2 week old Ameraucana that was prescribed antibiotics. It has definitely helped her (been giving it to her since Friday - 4 days). Originally we were able to put it in a tiny bit of her food mixed with a tiny bit of hard boiled egg. It took awhile to coax her to eat it...

Hi! We are just finishing our dream coop and have insulated it. The inside has plywood siding. I want to paint it as I am thinking it would help it to stay cleaner and may even help in preventing some bug issues (like mites) from living in the wood. My question is: is there some type of paint...

We are in the final stages of having our "dream coop" built. I have asked the builder to build our nesting boxes 12" x 12" x 12". I even drew on graph paper to scale how I wanted them. Well, this is his 2nd attempt and now they are approximately 12" x 12" and 18" high at the opening. It does...

Help please! She is 2 1/2 weeks old and isn’t eating or drinking this morning. She seems to be panting now and then. When she moves, she flaps backwards. Seems to list control of her legs.

After a heartbreakingly low hatch rate on my first ever chicks, I decided I didn't want to go through that again. I just purchased a Brinsea EX 28 and am trying to stabilize it prior to setting my eggs on Monday. I keep getting a High Room Temp Alarm and the temperature inside the incubator is...

I have 17 eggs in the incubator. Today is day 21 if you count the setting day as day 1. Last night one egg started to hatch at about 6:30 pm. This morning is was only about 1/4 of the way through. A 2nd egg started to hatch and got about 1/2 the way through in about 3 hours. Then 2 more...

Help please . So today is day 18 that my eggs have been in the incubator. I set them at 7:30 AM on the March 3. I called that Day 1. Now I am at the beginning of Day 18. Do I remove the egg turner and go into lockdown at the beginning of day 18 (now) or at the end of Day 18 (tomorrow morning)...

I am a newbie to chickens and am jumping in with both feet. I have 29 eggs in the incubator and am on day 6. I plan to candle the eggs tomorrow for the first time. It has been a struggle to stabilize the temp and humidity (I have been monitoring it all day and wake up at night to check as well)...

After 32 years of marriage, my husband finally said "fine, we can have chickens." I am so excited and wasted no time in starting the process of researching everything I could find on chickens. We have hired a builder to build my coop & run and will start building next week. We will have a 12'...