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I've just installed coop lighting for my chickens about 2 weeks ago. We are heading into winter here in New Zealand. I haven't had any eggs yet, but last night the power went out and came back on after the sun was up. My question is, how will that affect my hens? Will power cuts like this make...

I crossed my rescued farm brown shaver hens with my purebred lavender araucana rooster. I have hatched around 2 dozen eggs from this cross. All the chicks are black down with an orangey face. This is ehat I expected because lavender is recessive underneath lavender is black. However, I did get...

I have hatched out 10 chicks from a Black Orpington rooster and a Speckled Sussex hen. I have a project I'd like to do with them. I expected to get all black chicks, but I have hatched 8 black chicks and two chipmunk chicks. See photo below: Can anyone explain this to me? Isn't black dominant...

I'm really interested in learning how laced wyandotte genetics work. I have a silver laced wyandotte rooster and hen. I just picked up a golden laced rooster today because I'd like to put him with the silver laced hen. I know i will get golden laced pullets and silver laced boys but the boys...

I have a speckled sussex hen about 46 weeks old. She's never laid an egg and a couple months ago she started sleeping in the nesting boxes and nothing I would do would break the habit. Then I noticed her begin limping and finally she could barely walk at all and it is then that I realised she...

Can someone find a photo comparing blue laced silver with splash laced silver? When I do a blue laced silver cross in the chicken calculator it shows black laced silver, blue laced silver and splash laced silver, but I can't find a splash laced silver and the chicken calculator makes it look...

I've just started a project to create a spangled Orpington by breeding a black Orpington rooster with a speckled sussex hen. I've put the cros I to the chicken calculator and expect to get all black offspring with split for mottling. My plan is to cross the siblings together. When put hat in...

If I bred a salmon Faverolle roo with a silver laced wyandotte hen, would I get sex linked chicks?

I have been researching sex link crosses and understand that I need a gold male and a silver female for a sex link cross to work. However, when I put the following into the chicken calculator it comes out sex linked as well. I'm so confused. Can someone help me understand this? Crossing a...

I have a second hand brinsea octagon 40 and I've never managed to get better than a 60% hatch rate from it. It's quite frustrating and to get to the bottom of it, I bought a little non digital hygrometer and a glass thermometer to check things out. It turns out that the temp reading was actually...

I have a speckled sussex hen and an Orpington hen in a pen with an Orpington rooster. They have been together at least 6 weeks. I have seen the rooster mating both hens. I'm particularly interested in the speckled sussex eggs as I'm wanting the crossed chicks. I just canlded 7 eggs that were on...

I have 5 orpington hens and a lavender orpinton rooster. They are all around the same age. The hens are 2 blacks, 2 lavenders and 1 blue. I've been checking the fertility of my eggs when I get 5 eggs in one day by putting the 5 in the incubator and candling after a week. After doing this twice...

I just hatched 2 Dorking chicks yesterday and they don't look anything like typical dorkings. I hatched chicks from the same hens last year and they had the traditional chipmunk pattering. This year I had the same hens in a pen with 2 roosters, one was a new one from a different line and the...

I have a problem, what would you do? It is a self inflicted problem lol, as I couldn't help myself from cramming eggs in my incubator. I have a large incubator that holds 48 eggs, the brinsea 40 that I was planning to use to hatch some goose eggs. While I was waiting to source those goose eggs...

I have just hatched eggs from a rooster and hen that are siblings. They both have the same mother and father. The parents of the eggs have normal feathers, all 6 of the chicks look to be sprouting silkie feathers. Can someone explain to me if this is possible? I was under the impression that...

I hatched these chicks from a hen and rooster that have the same parents which were from different lines, as I liked these birds and was thinking of experimenting with their genetics. I also wanted to try feeding meat bird crumble to the chicks to see if it would make a bigger sized bird for...

What can I do with eggs that have been in my incubator for a week but are infertile? I assume it would be gross to eat them, but can I cook them up and feed them to anything else, like my chickens?

I have 4 chicken pens set up next to each other. They have different breeds in each one. I am getting eggs from 3 of the pens. It's the middle of winter here in New Zealand. I've collected eggs and incubated them and only one rooster is fertilising the eggs. He's the largest and most impressive...

I just hatched a chick that has a bald spot on its head. It is a Dorking Orpington leghorn cross. Half Dorking. Has anyone seen this before? What is it? Other than the spot the chick seems healthy.

I have a splash Auracana (new zealand standard) purebred rooster. I have many easter egger hens that ate part Auracana annd part red shaver, barred roxk, leghorn and barnevelder. I've tried hatching the eggs of these hens to see wha coloured chicks I will get. Ive noticed that i dont get any...