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Hi! I'm hoping someone can give me an idea of what my chicks might look like. Now,I have a pic of them and their parents below.But I also need to add,that their dad is actually split for chocolate. His mom is a chocolate laced gold olive egger.The chicks are a 5th generation of a line of olive...

Last week I posted that my hen had wry neck. I started treating with vitamin e oil, but after 2 days switched to the vit e gel caps as i was told the oil wasn't pure E. I have been giving her electrolytes and acv in her water, the first couple days she could drink on her own. I have been syringe...

I have a 10 month old EE hen. She hasn't laid since September, and has been molting since. Still has some feathers almost in. Anyways, she wasn't going in the coop at night, she's the lowest in the coop,small flock. So with the warm weather it didnt surprise me. Well, I noticed she definitely...

What are some reasons a rooster goes infertile? He was bred 4x with a sexlink,probably a couple weeks ago now, and he is in a pen with an orp hen, and 2 light brahmas. Well, one was killed 2 days ago, but i'm incubating her eggs. I set some eggs 16 days ago. All the eggs from him,were not...

So..I hatched some chicks from a friends eggs, back in July. I ended up keeping 2 pullets. The dad for both is a black orp. One mom was a maran mix,and is my black pullet,the other mom a blue oeg bantam and a blue pullet.I aquired a free coop and was going to get a blue cooper maran pair in the...

When you see a bullseye in the egg to check fertility, is there supposed to be a white dot in the middle? I have a silkie egg I swear looks fertile, but was told by another breeder, that mine have white in the middles and that there should only be the ring. There are no males in the coop/pen, I...

So, I am trying to help a couple friends with an issue. Friend A, breeds and sells hatching eggs. Both friends exchanged hatching eggs. Friend A hatched 15/20,2 were own eggs. Friend B said their flock had MG because some were showing symptoms. Friend A shipped a total of 74 eggs. Eggs were due...

I bought 4 buff orp hens March 5. On April 4,5,and 9 I got 1 egg each of those days. Nothing since. Nothing has changed. All the hens should have turned 1 this month. All healthy,3 squatting.The roo is even mating them. There is no where to hide eggs and no signs of any being eaten. Their coop...

Maybe I can get some help!!! I bought 4 buff orp hens about 5 wks ago. About 2 wks ago,I moved them from their quarantine pen in with my orp roo. I couldn't keep them in that last week. I bought them as laying hens,but figured with the 2 moves,it'd take time to resume laying. Someone gave me 3...

I got 8 cornish from tsc,and will be 5wks tomorrow. They are out in a shed with other geese,ducks and chickens.the bigger birds are barried away from all the small guys at night.they've all been out free since 2 1/2wks There are heat lamps set up on bottom parts of parakeet flight...

QUESTION ABOUT QUARANTINE Not sure how to edit title. I bought 4 Buff Orp hens Mar. 5 I have 4 adults,2 SLW,and 2 roos.EE and Buff Orp. I got a TSC coop recently,and set it all up for the EE and 2SLW. The quarantine area the 4 orp hens are in is great,but not this time of year. I just...

So my hen just started laying. She shares a coop with 2 boys. I seen the orp mate with her. From what I learned,they will be non typical sex links. My EE roo I also saw today,mate with my other slw hen. Can anyone tell me if those would produce ee chicks? Any pics of chicks from this cross would...

Last night I got what was supposed to be 4 buff orp hens. One we were suspicious of from pics.Was told they were laying. 2 were said to be molting and looked like it.today in natural light of their quarantine coop,2 look questionable as to gender. If they are molting,they should be on their...

I have 7 chicks that hatched 2-16. Dad is buff orpington,mom is light brahma. The chicks therefore are sexlinks. I'm confused about one of them though. It started off yellow down,and white feathers coming in. But after the first week,they started getting darker. Is this a male or female? If...

So,I made a second coop and run,with the anticipation of putting some cornish rock meat birds in. I think i'm going to use that,to separate my buff orp roo,and my orp mix hen chicks instead. Seems to nice for meaties to ruin,lol So i found some old stuff laying around here.First,an old crib of...

White chinese goose egg day 6. Egg is on its side, turned 3xs a day. Humidity about 60,temps steady at 100 with fan. I thought that blood rings were around the circumference of the egg, but cant find answers googling.

I aquired 2 silver laced wyandotte hens Dec 11.The person was moving out of state in April and they stopped laying for the winter so instead of feeding them til they moved,they rehomed sooner. My sister got one as well. When we got them,they were all finishing a molt. So I expected no eggs. Even...

Can you feather sex pure buff orps? Has anyone done it and how accurate was it? I have 2 pure orps that i hatched out of my 7,and think one is male one is female based on feather sexing,but the one with female feathering has an already larger comb!

So I made a homemade incubator for chicken eggs. I set 7, and on day 7 I moved them into my friends Hovabator because I got worried about temps. I had a 106 spike for 2 hrs when it got warm out and cause the warm house to raise my incubator temp. I have 2 days left on those eggs. Another part of...

A friend got these in a lot,with all sex links. Kinda looks like a Barnevelder,or maybe Barnevelder mix to me,seems like the lacings aren't the proper shape if its a barnevelder. Ideas? I'll add pics in a moment, can't from this phone for some reason.