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I have 5 little chocolate birchen English orpington eggs on lockdown today. They were shipped from Maine to Alabama and given to me to hatch. They've spent their incubation time upright, in little cups I made for them out of a cardboard egg carton. I've been reading up on hatching these, but my...

I just had 7 chicks hatch in my incubator The last one pipped, but I noticed a crusty yellowish substance around the air hole. The chick was peeping and I could see it's little beak opening and closing. I noticed more of the yellow (mostly clear) stuff crusting on its beak. I tried to rub a...

I finally found an LO rooster, and he came with a friend. A friend who has really fat legs and strange wings. Now I'm hearing of recessent genes in lavender orpingtons? Any advice? I don't wanna breed him. But he's not really showing any signs of wanting to breed yet. What can be done about...

I finally found an LO rooster, and he came with a friend. A friend who has really fat legs and strange wings Now I hearing of recessent genes in lavender orpingtons? Any advice? I don't wanna breed him. But he's not really showing any signs of wanting to breed yet. What can be done about...

A friend gave her to me. She ordered the "brown egg layer" mix from tsc. I'm just curious to find out what she might be.

I took the auto turner out of my mini incubator, planning on turning them myself, but now I have questions! I read something about turning angles that has me worried. Is the turning angle super - important? What if my angle is wrong? And must they be turned at night? I didn't think about that...

These are my first chicks hatched under their mama. Just wondering what I need to do for them. The nest box in my coop is high so I blocked the door. I'm afraid they'll hop out and get stuck, unable to get back to their warm mama. But she knocks it down to get out sometimes. I guess I just...

A friend of mine ordered chicks from tsc, a brown egg layer assortment. But they didn't send a list of which breeds they sent her! I was wondering if anybody could take a guess just by looking?

Last time I found a broody hen on a nest outside the coop I totally botched it. Well, I did manage to hatch out 11 of 16 eggs after I scared the hen off the nest trying to 'protect it.' This time it's almost December. About to turn cold here. Would you leave her alone? Take her eggs? Idk what...

Idk how there can be such mystery surrounding a handful of chickens, but my very favorite hen has been playing tricks on me. She is an escape artist. She used to fly the coop every single day. She went back in to roost every night. Then one day I couldn't find her. I waited another day then...

In North Alabama. Very docile and tame. If you need a happy, healthy BO, let me know! They're 3 months old now. My 1st chicks! I'll be sad to see them go. :(

And I was wondering if they hatch out like bigger chicks or if there's any thing I need to do differently for them? I have a mini incubator and I'm only getting 3 or 4 bantams and 3 australorp eggs.

I'm not sure if this is the place for this but my state, Alabama, just banned selling birds at flea markets because they found 3 confirmed case of avian flu :( not sure when the ban will be lifted, but it makes me sad! Checking out the livestock at the flea market has been part my life for along...

Earlier this week the chicks I'd set in my mini incubator started to hatch. 7 eggs. Not alot of room in there. 2 chicks hatched Sunday and they seemed to really have a hard time in the incubator. Also, they were all over the 5 that hadn't hatched yet. The incubator instructions said to leave the...