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I've have now lost 2 chicks and another looks sick. Symptoms: They walk around with their necks pulled in. I found one the other day, just laying on the ground, could hardly keep its head up. No puffy eyes or coughing or wringing of its neck. When they are walking around, the do...

I purchased 5 Wheaten Ameraucana (which I think are also crossed with Blue).. :-) They are 5 weeks old, any guesses on pullet or roo? Chick #1: Chick #2: Chick #3: Chick #4: - I'm pretty sure this one is a Wheaten Rooster Chick #5: - I was thinking hen, but are those pointy...

Today I received 7 Cream Legbar eggs, from a different BYC member than my first shippment. The eggs were packaged very well. A couple of things that I will comment on, with regards to shipping and packaging: 1) This member used a large mailing box instead of a Regional Rate Box A box - The...

Today I will be setting 7 shipped Cream Crested Legbar eggs into my incubator. I received the eggs yesterday in the USPS mail and they will have sat 24+ hours in a paper egg carton in the room that I have the incubator before I start incubating They were shipped as follows...

I think it would be great that we have a place to go to see members breeds and the eggs they lay. So lets post them here... it can be any breed, even mixed as long as you know what the mix is. For instance: Here's my BCM Roo x Barred Rock Hen mixed hen and her eggs: + = Lays the...

I have noticed that one of my EE hens, every so often, lays an egg with the air bubble on the side? Why is this happening and will it re-adjust to the end if it stored pointy end down? I want to incubate a set of my EE eggs this spring and I don't want the chick to start growing and then it...

So my husband sends me a picture of the eggs he collected today... on one of the eggs it looks like writing, I question him and he says it just looks like "chicken scratch" to him. What do you think? Could this be a masterpiece from Chicken "Little"??

For the last 2 years I have let a hen go broody and hatched 6-7 chicks each time. The 1st year, 7 of the 8 eggs hatched and the second year, 6-8 eggs hatched. I was thinking that this coming year, I might do it a little differently. Using my ceramic eggs, I will wait until a hen goes broody...

My chicken area is attached to a 1 car garage, inside the 25'x50' fenced in area is a freestanding coop and inside that coop I have a hanging feeder. I am looking to see if anyone has created a feeder that can hold a 55# bag of feed, that you load from inside a build (i.e. inside my 1 car...

I moved this request to the Coop and feeder forum... but don't know how to delete this one!! Please help.

I have a flock of Guinea hens that is slowing being eaten by hawks. Every couple of days the hawk comes and attacks one of my hens. My Guinea hens are free range and I want to leave it that way, they help to rid my yard of ticks and other unwanted bugs (i.e. the # of japanese beetles in my yard...

I have 6 chicks which hatched a couple of weeks ago. Hatched were: 2 black chicks; 1 with a solid black head and the other with a white mark on top. 1 red stripped chick 3 yellow chicks; 1 very light yellow with 3 black dots down it's back, 1 all yellow, 1 yellow with a red face. I have my...

I have a BCM rooster that I picked up a couple of months ago. In the last week I have had 2 Buff Orpington's go broody (both in separate coops). 1 hen is laying on 7 eggs, while the other is laying on 6. Anyone have any idea on what color the chicks will be when hatched due to these...

I have a broody hen sitting on some ceramic eggs in my main coop. There are 11 hens in total in this coop with no rooster. I plan on placing 9 fertilized eggs under my broody hen, leaving her in the main coop with the 10 other hens. What issues might I encounter by leaving her in the main...