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Hello all, hoping for your insight. I've just hatched a bunch of chicks, and am puzzled by the result. I'd like to learn where things went wrong, and how to better handle things next time. Using a Hovabator, which has given sterling service over the years, I set 23 Ameraucana eggs, and 11...

After reading horror stories about how people couldn't get their teeth through old birds, and that they were only good for soup or stew, I just had to prepare an 18 month old free-range hen as a roast, to find out just how tough a bird could be. Her skin was a little tough, but the meat was...

In brief, my neighbour and I split an order of red sex link pullets. She got their first egg on 5th October; I got the first on 17th October. She is getting about 5 a day, now; I am averaging about one a day. I am wondering if I should be doing something different, or if she just lucked out...

I have half a dozen "second-hand" black sex link layers that I got about three weeks ago. I noticed that one of them had something yellow (the colour of cooked egg yolk) caked around her vent, but she acted normally, and laid regularly, or has seemed to. I decided that as long as she was...

Brief history: I picked up eight birds yesterday from someone reducing her flock. Six of one kind, thought they were Easter Eggers but I got a brown egg from them this morning, and two that I think are Brahmas, which will be shown in the pictures. The one I call the Gold Brahma was the bottom...

I hope this is the right section. My rationale is that my eight new birds from someone else are "under new management", and that my group of questions may be seen in the light of a new manager's issue. It happened like this: Neighbour 1: I'm getting rid of a lot of my flock...too much work...

For those of use who intend to use an ordinary food scale for weighing the eggs we will EVENTUALLY be getting, is there a table somewhere saying how many ounces/grams make a small/medium/large egg? I tried googling, but I guess I didn't use the right search words.

Hello! I've been lurking on the Meat Bird forum, planning to experiment with growing birds for meat next year, and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me the approximate feed conversion ratio of any of the following dual-purpose birds: RIR, Barred/Plymouth/Columbia Rock, Orpington, Brahma...

I apologize if this specific question has been asked and answered already, but I guess my search word choices were poor, or I needed too many.... Anyhow, for flock planning purposes, I am wondering what the effective egg-laying lifespan is of Red Sussex cross, which I suspect is also known as...

So I'm sitting here on BYC, within earshot of the coop, and somebody breaks out with puKAAAWpukpukpukpukpukpuk puKAAAAWpukpukpukpukpukpuk. If I had a recording thingy I'd use it. This seems similar to the description of the egg song. Can this be??? The girls are just over ten weeks!

Hi, I *think* this is a Flock Management topic. I did do a thread search, and though I didn't see this particular question, I'm guessing it doesn't pose as much of a problem among chickenkind as it does among humankind: if one got a straight run of 25 chickens, about 12 male and 12 female and...

Hello, there. I'm quite new to chickens and just have layers at the moment, but I'm scheming to see whether it's feasible for me to try a batch of meat birds in my back yard next year. I thought I'd start small with Cornish game hens, due to space constraints and not wanting the notorious...

Hi! I like to hang out in the chicken coop when I have a little time to spare, and watch the girls interact with each other. I also like perusing this site when I have a chunk of time in which to do so, and I have learned many interesting, useful things. Perhaps I have also read some things...

I'm wondering whether I'm being a horrible chick owner, or whether observation is the best guide, in regards to the "right" temperature for my 16-day-old Red Sussex cross chicks. For the past week, I've been taking half the flock at a time out into the back yard, in a dog air carrier, for a...

I'm sure this is hardly an original sentiment, but I am stunned by how quickly those tiny peeps, 25 of whom fit into something the size of a large shoebox just last week, now have little feathered-out WINGS that they are eager to try out in the brooder...the rapidly "shrinking" brooder...which...

Hi! Out of [now] thirteen chicks hatched Monday, I have two that are a smaller than the rest. One looks all healthy and happy and fuzzy, just as though she were a day younger compared to the others, while the other looks scraggly-necked, with a noticeable amount of down gone from the head...

I just wanted to write thanks to those who have helped answer my questions so far. What a great site! Yesterday I picked up the 25 Red Sussex Cross pullets I'd ordered. 25 healthy little fuzz-balls bobbing around the box! And the cheeping! Brought them home to the brooder where they quickly...

After a few years of cursing the "useful" junk left by the previous owner of the house, I finally found a use for the old fridge and oven racks: these can serve as window gratings on the chicken coop! Sturdier than hardware cloth and a far sight cheaper, and still weasel proof--I think. They...

This question follows on the recent "Is it worth it, financially?" discussion. I am not looking to make money, but I would like to make an educated guess about how much I will be in the hole by . I have searched the forums, but haven't quite found the answer to my questions--and I hope this...

Pat & Chickens, I have read your excellent ventilation page, and it has taught me lots of things. But in case you thought it was idiot-proof... I volunteer to be the idiot! Is it possible to make a simple ratio of "ventilation square footage : chicken", or is that too dependent on...