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Explaining this to someone who doesn't want to hear it makes absolutely no difference and has already caused multiple arguments. If I put her out of her misery, my bff will never, ever forgive me and she is not mine to take care of. I cull my own when they are sick or hurt and won't get better...

I have a chick who has continued to keep her stunted size. She is now 11 weeks old and has had three sets of hatch mates go outside already while she remains indoors with the heat lamp. She couldn't even handle the regular warmth of the house when our power went out for a few hours this past...

All chickens have an oil gland...It's how they preen. I realize this post is ten years old, but I found it searching for something else and the information is inaccurate. Gender can be identified, by those who are very good, by wings in the first few days after hatch, sometimes by feather...

Read what I quoted before going on a random rant please.

It is essentially a glitch in the matrix...Days they are not laying, their bodies may still produce yolks and if they produce more than one yolk, the shell and whites take very little time(in comparison) to form around those yolks. I am, however, trying to find the OP's actual source, since...

I know this is an older post, but my Ayam Cemani roos and roosters have all always been the sweetest, smartest, and most mellow of any of my boys. I do have a lot of flighty breeds and spend quite a bit of time making sure they aren't, but I sit with them, sing to them, talk to them, tap the...

My thought was cutting a chicken door in a wall and basically making it a double coop in one, but I don't know what you're working with, personally

Are you able to build on to your current coop?

I realize this is a very old post, but thought I would add to it...I didn't know about kidney beans and am glad I never planned to try them, but I ferment my feed...For large beans(pinto, navy, small white beans, etc) I cut so they absorb better, but I ferment mostly lentils and very tiny beans...

No, he passed...I ended up finding out that he and the pullet were Splash instead of Lavender and 4 out of 7 Blacks are severely mossy, so he's refunding and taking them back...He also told me that, despite telling me he was the one breeding, that he literally just recently bought a trio and...

Photos of the chick...He is a Lavender/Self-Blue Marans

Has anyone here dealt with Angel Wing/Slipped Wing in a chick before? I had never seen or heard of it before, but one of the chicks that I got from a more local breeder has what I'm assuming is it and I have no clue how to deal with it. Not a cheap chick and he is beautiful already. It doesn't...

That was my thought as well. I understood it to be that it could cause respiratory issues for those that survive

That actually makes sense...Someone said they filed the sides of their dark eggs down with an memory board, but I was under the impression doing that would cause long term damage to the growing chick

I haven't found a real reason online either Lmao

I actually just looked up more info on this and a lot of people had the same issue hatching darker eggs...I'm now curious if this is whybi really had more difficulty hatching my Penedesenca. The breeder kept telling me it was temperature related, but everything was correct, even with a separate...

I'm not incubating at all at this point, but thank you

Beautiful coloring though, even if he isn't in tge plans 😊

Thank you. It could be either, but I'll stick to calling it a shade of black 😊

The incubator had not been the problem. You told me to buy a specific type of thermometer, which I did, and there was barely any variance in temperature. If you send more hatching eggs, I will pay someone else to hatch them for me. That will determine whether it is the incubator or not. The eggs...