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This is strange, I was on my way to bed when of the sudden I inhaled a small moth into my nose. It got stuck in my nose, and I could feel it moving a few times as I sneezed. Then it stopped moving. I went into the bathroom and blew really hard. Nothing came out. I am not really grossed out by...

Hello! I had a few questions regarding my egg hatching. I built a DIY incubator, and it got all of my eggs to lock down. There is a bit of a temperature difference from the top of the incubator, where the egg racks are, and the bottom of the incubator where the hatcher is. (Here is a pic) Every...

Hello!! I have a question for people have raised Partridge Rock Chickens before. Should I count on a Partridge Rock hen to start laying at 20 weeks old? Right now my hens are 18 weeks old, and their combs are beginning to turn red. I am scheduling hatches for people, and I really need them to...

Hello! I am incubating 14 chicken eggs I got in the mail. It is day 20, and saw no signs of pipping, or chirping. I have a broody hen hatch some of her own eggs, and they are due the same day. The broody' eggs are pipped, but the ones I have in the incubator have not. So I opened the incubator...

I had a few people ask me if it was humane to ship chicks, my answer was I don't know I have never done it before. Last January I ordered 20 chicks. I ordered 10 Standards, and 10 bantams, BIG MISTAKE!! Under any circumstances DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS THEY HAVE A SEPERATE BOX!!! The post office...

Hello!!!! I just candled my shipped eggs, most of them had liquid moving inside of them. I spent about 80 dollars on these eggs, it would be a BIG BUMMER if they all died. Their air cells looked ok, they were all intact, they seemed to be packaged well, and only one egg was cracked during...

Hello! I am trying to keep a continues flow of egg in my incubator. I decided I will use one of my incubators as a hatcher, and my other as my egg developer(I guess :idunno) For my hatcher I was thinking about using my GQF 1602 Hova-Bator. I don't trust it as much as my Little Giant incubator...

Hello, I know this place is a chicken forum, but I did not know where to turn to. I have a two year old large cat, with a hole in his ear. He got in a cat fight or something, and he suffered a hole all the way through his ear. It scabbed over, he seemed to be getting better, but then he sat...

I have a hen that is 4 years old. I am worried it is Mycoplasma Gallisepticum. I am trying to get my NPIP certification, and I have some chickens I want to keep in with her. Pls I need advice. Here is a picture.

Hello, I have a hatch that did not come along well because the power went out 7 hours during a snow storm. Miraculously 4 chicks have hatched, today is day 21. I have a chick with a bloody umbilical cord,. :( There is so much blood all around the incubator I am worried he wont make it. :( I do...

Hello all!! My name is Ben, I live in central Oregon. I joined BYC about a year ago thinking I was going to use it once and forget about it. But BYC stuck with me. I am using it everyday for positive feedback for my hobby, hatching, raising, then selling chickens. My big plans are to be a pure...

Hello All! I am now getting in to breeding Silkie Chickens. I just sold 13 day old Silkie Chicks, for $10.00 a piece!!! You see, people LOVE Silkies; I sold all the chicks within 1 day after posting them on Craigslist. Incubating chicken eggs does not really cost anything, if you...

So everyone loves Silkies. Lots of people like light Brahmas. What would happen if I crossed the worlds largest chicken with a Silkie for the intent to breed a bigger Silkie. What would I need to do? I have gave it some thought, and I was thinking if I bread a light brahma rooster with a Silkie...

Hello, I have a special little chicken that wee name Peep, because she was born last Easter, and was hatched from a broody hen. She lays nice big white eggs, and loves attention. I have been noticing that she quit laying eggs, and I kept on finding large what sticky spots in the coop. Then last...

Help! So this morning I walked into my Incubator Room, and looked at my Little Giant Incubator with eggs in it, and saw that the thermostat was blinking with zeros all over the screen. And then I realized that it wasn't keeping the eggs warm. So I threw open the lid and pit the eggs into my...

Hello All! I am trying to order some chicks early this year, and I wanted to know if it was safe to order chicks from Meyer Hatchery, and have them ship them to Central Oregon? I am waiting on the hatchery to get bantam chicks available, they said they would be by the end of this month. I was...

Hello! If you have seen my last post, you would know that my Silkie hens laying eggs. I read something on a very old post, it was only a sentence that said, "I tried putting chicks under a Silkie hen, and she raised them as her own." Here is the link where I heard this from. I decided in a...

Hello :wee:lol::ya Two nights ago when I went down to do my chicken chores, I found that my chickens had eaten all off their food. That's not a big deal because my chickens live on a farm that has frequent hand outs and are free range. So I added some feed into the feeder, and did not think...

Hello, I have this leghorn hen that is about 2 years old, and has never gone broody. She also has not laid and egg since spring. Then today she kicks one of my hens of the nest, and sits on these eggs. She even screamed bloody murder when I walked up to it. I have wanted a broody hen for so...

HELP! So a few weeks ago I decided to get some quail, just in case the shipped quail eggs that I got from Kansas city quail farms did not hatch. (They did end up hatching) So I got a 13 quail from a locals person who has a lot of birds and animals. So a few days ago I noticed that one quail did...