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Looking for hatching eggs in Arkansas.

I hate it and a won't use it for chicks under 2 weeks old. Couldn't control pasty butt in my chicks. Never had that problem with heat lamps. Than I realised their drinking water wasn't staying warm like baby chicks need it to be..went back to heat lamps for first 2 weeks. No more pasty butt.

Is there a SOP for Bielefelders? I have 11 in the incubator from 2011 and 2013 line. Wanting to know what to breed for.

I have 11 in the incubator from the 2011 and 2013 line. Can't wait for them to hatch! Is there a SOP for them?

One year ago I hatched 9 bantams from eggs off ebay. 2 rooster and 7 hens. Hatch date 12-4-17. Over the last 2 week's I've lost all but one rooster whose health suddenly declined over night. No lice, no mites, poop is fine and until yesterday he was eating and drinking fine...the same for the...

I'm breeding a cuckoo silked serama cockerel over a koi / tri colored silked feathered and partridge colored silked feathered hen. Will the cuckoo color dominate or will I get a variety of colors from this trio. I have 2 mottled silked feathered pullets, 1 brown and white and 1 black and white...

Why My chicks are getting pasty butt ? They are not shipped ,brooder is clean, fresh water and feed. I don't understand what I am doing wrong . I have a Brinsea ecoglow. Are they too hot ? How do I prevent this? I raise Serama and they are so tiny to work with and I am terrified I'll hurt...

Post here if you want to share the story of your beloved feather baby that is no longer with us. I'm starting this thread in memory of my precious Tribble who was killed by the neighbors dog walking to the nest box to lay a egg. She was a Silkie Serama mix ,tiny and just beautiful. She was a...

Can anyone explain cuckoo, barred and mottled genetics and what to breed them too so every chick I hatch won't be cuckoo, barred or mottled. I have a silkied cuckoo Serama with black /white mottled frizzled hen and two tri colored mottled hens.. Every chick ( 15) is hatching out black /white...

Won some Serama eggs from eBay. They were well wrapped and packed but they are covered in poop. Can I clean these off some? Never had any this bad before. Someone said spray with peroxide to disinfect them. I know we don't wash hatching eggs but Wow.

Why do Chicks feather faster on one side than the other? I have 6 new Serama babies that the wing feathers are just coming in .4 on the left side and the other 2 the feathers on the right are coming in faster . I was just wondering if anyone knew why this is so. Here are 2 of them for example .

My half Serama /Silkie hens. Love to lay their eggs under the lawn mower , I have kept them in the run for a couple of days with no eggs. I let them free range yesterday and found 4 fresh little eggs under the lawn mower. I swear they are laughing at me. Above is one of my trouble makers...

I understand how frizzled feathers work... But I cannot find good info on how silkied feathered gene in Seramawork. I have a cockerel and a pullet that are silkied Will Chicks be silkied? I also have a frizzled pullet with him so with them all chicks have Silkie gene but only 50% will be...

if I hatch out eggs from my golden 300 drake and my magpie duck ( who has laid a egg everyday since she started, 42) the ducks from that mix will lay well? Can I mate them back to their father for a 2 nd generation ?

I have 4 minichins pullets 8 months old. ( Serama, Silkie, OEG bantams mixes) they are stealing eggs and comandering nest boxes. One actually got a duck egg from the duck house to the chicken coop. My large breeds are scared of them. Anything I can do short of building a coop? When I need...

I got Kismet at 10 days old. Now at 1 Month and 20 days old I'm thinking pullet? What do you think? Kismet is 100% silked Serama.

I have 3 roosters that I want to rotate through my breeding pens to keep my genetics strong and delay inbreeding. I've read it's OK to breed Mother to son and father to daughter. So with 3 cockerels and 6 pullets at what point to you add new blood?

Can someone explain what you get when you make these crosses . 1. Silkie Serama(M) to frizzled Serama (F) 2. Frizzled Serama(f) to smooth Serama(m) 3. Silkie Serama(m) to smooth Serama (f) 4. Silked Serama (f) to silked Serama (m). 5. Silked Serama (f) to smooth Serama (m). What ratios do...

I have these two and a mottled frizzled Serama.. .cockerel is cuckoo ( black and white) frizzled black and white mottled pullet ( not pictured) and I'm am almost certain the youngest at 5 weeks is a pullet too. Question? What will I possibly get from this breeding pen once they start to lay?