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I am near Fairbanks AK and I am looking for hatching eggs to start a flock. I want a colorful and fun flock and a good looking egg basket. I am primarily looking for chickens but will also entertain ducks if any one is keeping them in the area. Any help is appreciated.

Help me find a Home! Well it finally happened, one of our girls crowed at me this morning. So I did enough research to find out about saddle feathers and it looks like we have 2 roosters. Both of them were hatched April 29th from eggs we got from DMRippy. These are our 2 favorite out of...

I have been trying to introduce some snacks to our chicks, 3 three week olds and a two week old. I wanted it to be fun and help the chicks bond with my family. But they don't seem interested in anything but regular food. I can't imagine meal worms being anything less then the greatest thing...

We have one 5 day old that we hatched with 3 almost two week old chicks that we bought at the co-op. The chicks were about 5 days old when we got them and took to the feeder right away but they also had one at the co-op. Our 5 day old has only ever taken 2 bites out of the feeder while I was...

We tried our first hatch in a DIY incubator made out of a thick 1.5" foam cooler and had a hard time getting humidity over 35-40% humidity. I bought a 2 layer plastic with foam core cooler, a standard coleman type, and moved all the components into it yesterday. In the foam incubator a 8"x11"...

I want to take a poll here. This was sparked by another thread but I wanted this to be it's own entity. Please everyone answer so I/we/other newbs can get a good idea of whats working. What humidity ranges are you (have you) using for days 1-18 and 19-21? What kind of results have you...

We are relatively new to BYC but this has been a tremendous help in our recent adventure. We posted about our incubator that we built using a few ideas from here and our own tinkering skills and our coop is almost ready and based closely on another coop I saw on here. So on to the real story...