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I had 6 hens go broody almost at the same time!! Yesterday one hen hatched out 5 babies... Pics coming soon! 5 MORE HENS TO GO.....LOL

I have one of my pearl whites limping badly. Was fine yesterday, but this morning, he is walking badly. Kida like he was walking on his "elbow" on the one leg. Doesnt seem sick and I canot see any apparent damage. What could it be??

Here are a few new pics from here in NC...

Went out to the hen house today and found this "special" egg..... I just wanted to share it with you all.... I guess she didnt want to work so hard today. Lol I put it next to a regular sized leghorn egg, and a penny, for comparison.....

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My Leghorn hen has been laying for a few weeks now. But most of her eggs seem to be double yolks.... yesterday we got a surprise.... a triple yolk! Today we found this GIGANTIC egg in the laying box. I put it with a standard brown egg and one of the leghorn double yolks. I feel sorry for my...

I have had fun hatching chickens... now I'm trying my luck with Turkey eggs. I just put in 7 turkey eggs into my homemade bator. 6 are Royal Palm turkeys and one is a giant white. Ok.. I really wanted a turkey or 2 for thanksgiving....lol... But I figured that I could try hatching them...

Ever wonder Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt." ??

I lost all my eggs in my bator this morning. The main breaker on the house fried and I have been without power since this early morning. Just got it back on and the temp in the bator is a whopping 52....House is at 45...Eggs are all Ice cold now. Good news, the breaker is fixed (250.00...

Out of the two hens I have brooding now, one set hatched with a 50 percent hatch rate. I think it could have been more but she left the nest to care for the litle ones.... I had 6 hatch, and when I got home from work tonight, one was dead. I guess he got too cold cause he was in the middle of...

I went out to candle the eggs under the broody hens tonight. I was surprised by the amount of eggs beneath Chickles (named by my son...) and found one of SUPER SIZE!! My hens that are laying now are all bantams and the one white one (Blanca) We dont know her breed.... but shes caring for 8...

Is it normal for the older chicks to terrorize newer chicks? I put the new chick in with the older ones and everything was going good. Then for no apparent reason, three of the older chicks seemed to gang up on my six toed chick and pecked his feet..... in the process they succeeded to...

I have a hen who went broody about 2 days ago. Is it too late for them to hatch safely? I'm in NC and it's getting kinda chilly at night now, and the temp seems to just keep dipping lower each week. I do have my homemade bator in the house, but since my last hatch of 2 chicks (from 4 eggs)...

My five year old son named the two newly hatched chicks Tweeter and Walker. One cause he's a loud chirper and one cause he Power walks all over the place. Well, Tweeter has multi-toes....He has 6 on each foot!! Let's see if the pic comes up... Have any of you seen this sort of thing? Or...

I put together an incubator from a Insulin shipping cooler, and put in 4 eggs to see if it worked. Well today my first chick broke the shell! I hand turned these 4 and didn't expect much, but to my amazement today....one is hatching! I'll keep updates on the progress! It's so fun to watch...

I had let my children free range one afternoon 2 weeks ago, while I raked out the yard. Upon returning later in the afternoon, I noticed a hawk circling above. They knew the yard was safe cause they all ran inside the yard and went straight underneath the coop. I didn't see anymore outside...