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So it all started about a week ago when I went to let the chickens out for the morning and they were already out. I double checked the latch! All were accounted for except one Coconut buff cochin, ****....So reinforcements went onto the door, added latches added measures of protection although...

Not happy at all that this isn't what is was supposed to be! We purchased these at the feed store on may 9th. I really didn't want another roo so we went with pullets, and sex linked even....so I am 100% sure this isn't a pullet black star but what is it? I kept thinking maybe black stars got...

My cousin's kindergarten class is desperately looking for local fertile eggs for their class hatching project. I was hoping someone in the area might be able to help out. If you are in the olympia WA area and have hatching eggs for sale please PM me the details so I can get it to her. Thanks...

Well out of 24 eggs we ended up with 2 that hatched. They are my daughters. We gave them to a broody hen who is a great mama. At 2 today I went out to check again for eggs and mama and babies were fine. They are in a separate part of the coop from the rest of the flock. Went out at 5 to lock...

These are the 2 Aloha chicks that we hatched. Jenny our LF Black Cochin is the surrogate mama. The blonde is Surprise and the chipmunk is well... Chipmunk.

I put 2 babies in with a hen who had been sitting on wooden eggs for nearly 2 weeks, last night. Everything seemed well, she seemed thrilled with the babies. This morning I went to refill the food and water and held the chicks to take pics. I put them back, the hen was eating and when the...

One baby out, a cute little fluffy aloha baby. Hopefully we have some others joins it soon. DD's science experiment was washed vs unwashed eggs for hatching. At the beginning it seemed there was no difference but we have a LOT of late blood rings pop up on developing eggs here at the end on...

I have a home made bator using the heating element from a LG bator i have a triple fan installed and a turner. My last hatch was 100% and I didn't have much for temp fluxes at all. Well of course I have eggs in for my dd's science experiment and I swear the thermostat has gone haywire! Spikes...

We got 2 dzn shipped eggs and they went in the bator. We are on day 4 and we candled. 7 were clear, but the ones showing great veining and beating hearts had what appears to be detached air cells, they don't seem to be totally detached but the air cells have more wiggly movement if you know...

Our bantam cochin was fine this morning acting broody in her nest box. This after noon dd noticed that she was lethargic and acting funny. She didn't want to get up and go free range with the others so we let her be. This evening she was under the heat lamp eyes closed labored breathing and...

I ended up with a few eggs from Laree, ummm well 2 dozen to be exact. Actually I believe they came from Sommer's hens, but where they came from doesn't matter to me. My dd is going to hatch them for her science experiment, she is doomed to be a chicken addict like her mama. Anyhow they...

I am in need of somebody with hatching experience to do a test run of a dozen or so duck eggs preferably not less than 6 eggs. My Drake is a Rouen and I have 1 Rouen hen and 2 pekin hens. They are all together and I am not separating them at this point nor am I able to determine which egg is...

My dd who is 9 needs to have a science fair project picked out soon, they are due March 2. She wants to do something with hatching eggs, but I am not sure where to go with that. I will be getting some Aloha eggs from Laree so maybe she can do something with that? I would love any suggestions!

Out free ranging, they love this straw bale! The little lavender cochin Taffy is apparently War Chicken's (mottled bantam cochin roo) new flame, they are inseparable much to the dismay of Gumball the mottled bantam cochin hen who was his previous conquest, lol. Then one of our kitty Ziddler...

I have 3 girl ducks 2 pekin and 1 rouen and 1 rouen drake. This fall I started getting 2 eggs, 1 very light bluish/greenish and the other white. I assumed that it was both pekins laying since they mature faster and they always lay early in the morning before I can see who it is. So the other...

Millie is the broody, the mama hen is a partridge bantam cochin and the choices for daddy are mottled bantam cochin or RIR. I am thinking 4 have the RIR as daddy as they seem huge compared to the rest but they all are feather footed like the cochins. 5 of the babies are almost a month and the...

Earlier this morning the dogs and ducks were having a cow....so I went to investigate. Skunk near the chicken coop. Of course when I went for the 22, my hubby had moved the shells and I by the time I located them that skunk had disappeared. So I decided I would work on the fencing around the...

My daughter took her lavender bantam cochin, partridge bantam cochin and light brahma to the county fair. We are not doing 4-h this year so they are just in the open division. But sheesh people brought some ratty awful looking birds in. Ours were nicely bathed, all nice and clean and fluffy...

I looked out the window a few days ago and thought, man that fawn looks funny because it was right where a doe and fawns usually bed down. Then it occurred to me it was a coyote and it was drooling over our goat Toula who was staked about 150 yds away and totally oblivious. DH got my 30-06 and...