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I'm not sure If there is a special place for this as I have been away from the forum for a really long time. I am just now coming back to hatching eggs and keeping chickens. I have been using canva to make things at work and decided to use it to make a sheet to help me remember dates and basic...

I'm not sure what to do, so come asking for help. First hen showed up yesterday with eyes stuck shut and a snotie nose. In 24 hours I have had 3 more begin to show the same signs and another has died. I'm not sure the one who died had the same symptoms but she could have. I have a flock of...

I've had some bad luck finding a quality thermometer/hygromiter to use in the incubator. I just have one of the foam incubators. It works well and i have had very good hatches when I can monitor the temp and humidity. My question is. Does anyone have a suggestion for a thermometer/hygromiter...

I have not been able to find a thread disgusting what "show quality" is in general. What defines show quality? If you want to breed show birds for FFA and 4H would you have to buy stock from a show breeder or just find a few birds with good qualities to start out with.

I have chicks ranging in age from a month to a day old. Im working on a project that will have my chickens off my main farm being (rented) by local customers. What do I need to vaccinate any of the chicks I hatch agains? Also if I want to sell them.

I'm not sure if I'm right and he a due at the vet again soon anyways but I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone had ideas. We have a 5-6 month old healer puppie who has for the last month or so been chewing on the floor vent covers that I find annoying and I thought was just a bad...

I have two Americana/EE hens that I have been with me about a year now. They have always and with out fail laid identical pail blue eggs. But starting yesterday I have been getting smaller green/Brown (dark brown not tan) eggs. They are the only two in the flock who lay colors eggs. Everyone...

OMG saying I hate snakes in my space is an understatement. And it July gets better. I went into the hen house to get the eggs this morning only to see the board had fallen out of one nest box which is odd since they are very stable. I look over and see some black "thing" wrapped around an egg in...

Two 5 month old roos. They are an Americana/easteregger cross. Beautiful colors and friendly. Used to dogs and children. Free range on a regula basis. 30.00 each obo

I have had this girl for almoat a year. She is the only one I have that is this bad. I have 4 other hens that have some mild feather loss at the base of their tails. Up until two weeks ago they where the only ones laying eggs. I have another 15 or so hens that have or are about to start laying...

I have two sweet americana roos that need to go. I hatched them out in Feb and am very sad that both turned out to be roosters. If you live in or near central virginia and are inturested please PM me. I can send moren pic if you want.

I hatched these two out about three months ago. I didnt sex them then and not sure I want to try now. Anyone care to take a guess? One I think is a rooster the other may be a hen.they both have the roosters back shimmer tail feathers.

I have a flock of 20 hens and one roster in a chicken house and yard that really isn't built for that many to stay in 24/7. They free range three days a week, I had to work out a schedual with the neiboor so his dog dosnt kill more of my chickens. The hens range in age from over a year to about...

Basically I'm new in some way to all of this. Growing up my parents garden and raised chickens and we lived very rural. Now I'm 28 and married with our first child and a new home. We are on an adventure all out own. We have chickens two dogs (three if you count the one living with my parents at...

I have a group of aproxamitly 6 week old chicks. One, and only one, started bloting at the base of her neck a few days ago. I called around trying to find a vet who could help me (my merk manual has magicly disappeared). I FINALLY found one who could help over the phone since the closest one is...

So I thought I was prepared but I'm not. This is the first time I have even attempted to hatch chicks and it was an experiment I didnt think would work. Now I have 3 brand new chicks and a possibility of 3 more. I have all the supplies I need but what else? Vaccinations? Special care a chick...

So I went to our local co-op to get chicks (possibly a little early in the year). I was supposed to have gotten 6 buff orpington 4 wyandott and 2 bard rock. Well... I have a bunch of something's I know there is at least 3 buff orpington and 1 wyandott. They are about a month old I think so I'm...

So this has only recently started to happen. I have 5 hens 3 something I picked up at TSC at the end of the season, the sales guy wasn't even sure what breed (red with touches of white) and 2 araconas. Every time I cook eggs in the morning they smell so much like a nasty wet dog I dont want to...

Fairly new to the chicken thing. My family had them when I was younger and now that my husband and I are buying our first home I am looking to start a small farm (we have 20 acres) and my first thing to do is start a flock of chickens. There is a standing hen house that looks like it will work...