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Hi everyone! I’m looking to invest in some quality BCM hatching eggs preferably local to where I live but I’m willing to pay for shipped eggs as well if they meet my standards. I live in lower mainland area in BC Canada. I found one breeder on Vancouver island called “Elaine’s fertilized eggs”...

Around 2 months ago my chickens got infected with mycoplasma and I had to cull the entire flock. Since then I’ve decided I’m finally ready to start over again with a fresh batch of BCMs! I have some experience with the breed but I’m still a little unsure about how the egg colour genetics work...

I have 22, 1 and half week old chicks that are suddenly dying. This past Monday we lost 6 and again 1 tonight. 2 others aren’t looking very good and might pass as well. Symptoms include gaping/gasping. Once the symptoms start it’s not too long before they die. Can anyone help me out? What...

Most of my flock has had on again off again mild respiratory infection symptoms. Right now they all seem to be symptom free but I really want to do a PCR test for MG and MS since I sell hatching eggs and chicks. Since MG and MS are a CRD will they test positive even though they aren’t showing...

Hey everyone! A few weeks ago my flock got infected with some sort of mild respiratory infection. All my younger birds caught it first and showed mild signs (coughing/sneezing, lethargic, puffed up) that cleared up in about 3-5 days. Some of my older girls and roosters (about 1 1/2 years old)...

Hey everyone! Can any fellow Canadians here tell me how to ship hatching eggs within Canada? Is it possible to ship without some sort of licence? I was thinking Canada Post but they have so many rules and regulations regarding shipping fertilized eggs.

Hey guys, I posted about my roo a couple weeks ago because I noticed that he had lost quite a bit of weight and had his feathers picked out. I solved the feather picking problem but the weight issue is still present. I think I figured out what the problem is.. he got frostbite on his wattles...

I have no idea what’s going on with my poor boy Rowan. This past month or so I’ve noticed that he’s lost a noticeable amount of weight and I can’t figure out what it’s from. Every night I lock them up I feel his crop to see how much he’s eaten and it’s usually less than half as full as the girls...

I recently purchased a couple bags of layer mash feed from this local mill for the first time. When I first opened the bag everything looked fine and the chickens loved it, but when I got about halfway through I noticed that there were lot of black pieces or flakes in the feed. The chickens...

I have an emergency! my Hovabators (still air) temperature is spiking up to 106 so I plugged in my Hovabator Genesis 1588 (electronic thermostat, forced air) and it started beeping as soon as I plugged it in! I don’t know what to do, I’m on day 20 of incubation and have no other incubator to put...

I’m feeling a little frustrated right now. I have 2 breeding pens set up, one with a whiting true blue roo and the other with a BCM roo. I put 42 eggs in the incubator 1 week ago, roughly 50/50 from each breeding pen. I candled today and found 9 early quitters all from my WTB roo pen. I put 7...

Hey everyone! So I purchased a 5 month old pullet (not laying yet) from a trusted and well known breeder in my area. She is a BC1 Olive Egger (BCM x Silverrudds blue). When I first brought her home this past July I didn’t notice anything off about her but about a month and half or so later I...

I’m heart broken that I have to make this post but I really don’t want to lose my girl… About a week or so ago I noticed that my BCM hen, Poppy, was very underweight. Thought maybe it was due to her moulting (she’s 11 months old) but she’s gotten progressively worse over this past week, she’s...

I feel like I’m consistently hatching out more males than females. It seems each time I do a hatch I will get 60-70% males. I thought maybe it was just a one time thing but this is my 5th hatch and only 6 out of 18 were female. I had someone that was supposed to come pick up 7 chicks this...

I have a young rooster that has been sneezing/coughing (I can’t really tell the difference between the two) for over a month now. I was so preoccupied with treating so many other unrelated illnesses in the flock that I never took the time to really think about what’s making him sick until now...

Ok so I have kind of a weird question. My 6 month old Whiting True Blue Rooster has been coughing/sneezing for the last month or so and no one else in the flock has experienced any of these symptoms at all. Thought it might be gapes or a respiratory illness at first but since he’s the only one...

I’m heartbroken that I have to rehome my beautiful boy so I want to make sure that he goes to a good home. I can’t guarantee that he’s purebred but I do know that he hatched out of a #7 on the marans scale and according to the lady that I got his egg from the rooster over her flock was a BCM...

Hello, this is my first post here on BYC and I’m in need of some advice. To make a long story short I have a duck egg on almost day 28 that hadn’t popped internally. There was one other egg in the incubator with it but unfortunately didn’t make it last night and I don’t know the cause of death...