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I'm looking for input on this Splash Silkie. I'm 99% sure it's a pullet. It hatched on 6/10/18... so still fairly young. I bought her when she was 3 days old and have raised her. I've never showed before, but I've been considering getting into it.

My quad of DLS Barnevelders that I bought a few months ago are almost 19 weeks.. when should I be able to tell if they are cockerels or pullets? At what point/age do you cull for lacing? This breed is completely new for me. I know that with other laced breeds the older they are, the crisper...

I'm attempting to write out the genetics of breeding Chocolate and Blues to make Mauves. When you breed a Chocolate rooster (choc/choc) over a Splash hen (Bl/Bl), you get 100% (choc/Bl) offspring, which results in Mauve pullets and Blue cockerels. Would these cockerels also be split to...

I currently have a Lavender pair, a Lavender pullet (from different line) a Blue hen, a Blue cockerel, 2 Mauve pullets, a Chocolate pullet, and 2 Black (possibly split Chocolate) cockerels. I want to make my own phenomenal lines and make breeding Orpingtons my main business. How would you...

This lady had Khaki Campbell's, but got rid of the Drake a month ago. To her surprise, her hen had ten eggs (one hatched today) that she was brooding on. She didn't want anymore ducks, so she gave them to me. The little one is in with my chicks atm and is doing fine BUT I noticed that the...

I have the opportunity to buy red, black, or white Cochin frizzle chicks, which I would like to use to breed to silkies to create my own line of sizzles. Which color should I get or should I get one of each?

I bought two chicks from Atwood's yesterday to keep my lavender Orpington company. Care to guess the breed? I thought maybe barred rocks or Wyandottes..

I had 3 pip this morning and one was trying to zip and it yellow liquid (maybe the yolk?) started leaking out. What do I do?!

I know this is crazy, but we have to drive with our incubator for about 4 hours, give or take. I have an adapter so I can plug the light and fan into my car, so that won't be a problem, but as far as stabilizing them, should I just put them back in egg cartons til we get there? Lockdown will...

When I picked up my 2 dozen quail eggs from a semi-local farm, the lady told me to keep them at higher temps (like 101-102) and said if I could get it there, to keep it at 90% humidity. Wouldn't this drown the chicks?! All other research I have done have said to keep the humidity around the...

This is my first hatching and I was able to get these eggs semi-locally (a couple hours to drive to get them). I began incubating them (a dozen of each breed) on the 7th with a couple forced air homemade incubators. One incubator is perfect and stabilized at 99.5 thanks to a computer fan and...

I just started my first batch of incubating on the 7th (a dozen lavender Orpington eggs and a dozen blue laced red wyandotte eggs) in some homemade forced air styrofoam incubators. So far the temps are stabilizing really well (one at around 100 and the other at 99.5) But my humidity is low (I...