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It is really hot. Hitting 95-100 every day. The nights are fairly hot also. I have about 75 babies in my brooder. They are around 3 weeks old. I don't have a light on them anymore. Do you think it would be too early for them to go out to the nursery pen, out in the open? I worry about them...

A month or so back I lost a brooder full of quail chicks, I had bought some eggs and hatched them and then lost them. I was upset, I have 3 adult bobwhites and the idiot I bought them from made me an even bigger idiot and sold me 2 males and 1 female as a trio and I of course didn't know the...

Well, maybe two weeks. The middle of last week I went to collect eggs and only had 3 instead of 12. Then the culprit slithered out of the coop! I have yet to catch that snake back in there and it is still getting my eggs. Then I moved some of my older babies out of the brooder into the nursery...

I have about 30 keets that I can sell. A neighbor down the road told my dh he wanted them. Of course he told him to talk to me when he asked about the price. ( I don't understand why people assume the chickens are his deal, they always do:rolleyes:) Anyway, I have no idea what to charge. I know...

are driving me crazy. I have 25 chicks. They are in my laundry room in a tub sitting on the dryer. They have a red bulb on them, the thermometer was just reading 97F, a little high because I had the door closed while I was gone to avoid Cat curiosity. I opened the door, it should cool it off a...

I have quite a few staggered hatches in my bator right now. About 4 different hatch dates. A friend of mine offered me 2 turkey eggs to try to hatch. Can I just add them to my bator and keep them with the chicken eggs only leave them 28 days instead of 21?

I was thinking the other day about genetics and strong genes. I have my EE's in with my silikes, just because my EE's are just for eating and my silkie and showgirl are both cockerels. Only 1 EE is laying and sadly is laying brown eggs, but I have my fingers crossed for my other one to lay green...

I set some of my own eggs with my Silkie eggs I purchased. I didn't write mark them, I have now started marking them, but it doesn't help me with these. They technically should be Buff Orphington. B/c that's all I thought I set, maybe some production red, although I didn't think I set any of...

I had my first hatch in my Dickey this weekend. I set 31 eggs, 26 hatched. I haven't opened the others up yet, they are quiet, no chirping, no peeping, but I am going to leave them. I always leave them until Wed, b/c that is when I will clean out the hatcher and set the next batch in the...

I changed Roo's in my Buff Orph pen and my Barred Rock pen and moved all the chickens around into breeding pens. Since then they have quit laying. I know moving them will effect their laying, but it's been a month almost. Could the roo change affect them also? I finally got 1 BR egg today, but...

What's the youngest you have even had a hen lay? I have a 5 month old (barely) BO and I am pretty sure she is laying. She is in with my SLW right now, but I know their eggs, they have been laying a while, and these eggs are def. pullet eggs and are found in the nest that I find her sitting in...

I just hatched off 11 of 20 babies. Not the greatest hatch rate. I'm trying to understand what happened. I know the temp dropped for a while and that caused a delayed hatch. 10 of them hatched completely on their own with no difficulties, all BO's. 1 RIR hatched almost all the way out except...

With an incubator. Yet another person gave me an old cabinet incubator. This one is in pretty rough shape, but my dh is going to gut it and build a new cabinet for it. He is going to put the turner racks in it and everything! Then I can use my other homemade incubator as a hatcher. So I will...

I AM planning on getting some ducks this year, despite my dh's protests. I have wanted some for a while and fully intend to get some. I know he will give in, b/c he did with the silkies, and numerous other things. LOL! I want pretty ducks, but I want sufficient ducks. I want them to be able to...

brown eggs, I'm disappointed. I got her so the kids would have pretty eggs to collect. My dh says she is not an EE, but a muffed game??? I'm not sure which one is laying or if both are laying, the eggs were hidden.

My dh and I are confusing each other and of course we are both right. We have a triple chicken pen. It has 3 coop compartments. It is 8 foot tall. Two of the sections are 6x6, and the other is 12x6. How many chickens should each pen be comfy for?

Dh and I decided to try our hand at some meat birds this spring. We get all other meat our own stash, so why not chicken. I've looked and did some researching, but you can't get any better than personal experience. What would be the best breed for us to start with? I order from Privett Hatchery...

I have several breeding questions. I have a gorgeous dark buff orphington roo. I would like my entire flock to have his coloring, How do I go about breeding that color in? Do I pick the darkest pullets I get off of him to breed with and get rid of the rest? And keep this going for as many...

I had to move all of my RIR and BR hens into one pen this winter b/c of some roofing problems. The roof has been fixed, the coops have been improved and it's time to start hatching. So I want to move them. I just don't want to upset them, b/c they just started back laying last week. I know at...

My dh and I had planned on adding SLW and GLW to out flock this year. A friend told my dh that his are very aggressive and not worth the trouble. I was really looking forward to some GLW, and now I don't think he is wanted to mess with them. Anyone have experience with these beauties disposition?