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Okay. So here's my plans, please tell me if they won't/will work. I am getting 2 chicks very soon at my local hatchery, one maran and a silver laced wyandotte. Well, I also want 2 cochin bantam chicks (they are my dream chicken.) I have a big coop and a small coop. The big coop is 23 ft long...

I've always wondered what mix my olive egger rooster, Benny, is. He has some very cute traits such as a little "mohawk" right behind his comb, which has me thinking, since cream legbars have crests could he be part cream legbar? I have no clue for sure, but maybe you guys could tell me? Just in...

Hi guys:frow, well I'm back with another question. So all of my eggs are the same exact shade of brown, which is a light tan. Apparently there are 10 possibilities of who laid them. I don't want to accidentally incubate some of my new chickens' eggs because their father could have mated with...

Hey all..... Well I'm about to start my hatching in a few weeks (~2-4 more weeks) but I'm kinda on the fence about what type of hatch I should do. I heard that with wet hatching (normal hatch method) the hatch rate is lower and more chicks get splayed legs, whereas if you do the dry hatch...

Hello, there wasn't really any section to put this thread in so I just put it in incubating and hatching eggs. I might want to sell hatching eggs sometime, but I did a lot of research and didn't find the info that I was looking for. I wanted to know, do you just grab eggs from the nesting boxes...

Hello I was just wondering what everyone's favorite temperature and humidity is in order to get the most successful hatch rates. There are so many mixed results out there on the internet that I am just not sure at all which temp/humidity levels to go with! I've read somewhere to go with 60%...

Hey fellow chicky nerds!!!! I've always found hatch-alongs super fun and I finally decided, well, I should do one! I am doing a semi-large batch so that a lot of people can contribute! I am not going to be keeping them, if any, maybe 1 or 2. But hey, it will still be fun to name them and see...

Hi all!! Yesterday I had to do a little clean-up outside, which then of course led to me getting off track and renovating the chickie's run. So this is what I did. I added more dirt to their dust bath which they love, it is literally just an old kiddie pool filled with regular 'ol dirt, not a...

Hi I was just curious about how I could get olive eggs, I heard that you can cross a brown layer with a blue layer and you get an olive egger, but last year my sapphire gem roo bred with my easter egger hen and their daughter just lays easter egger light blue eggs, not olive eggs. Does anyone...

Hello everyone! I don't think there has ever been a thread like this one before, so I made one. What you do is you post one or more separate obituaries for your passed on loved ones (your chickens) or any other kind of poultry for everyone to see and read. This thread is meant for you to share...

Hi everyone, I want to hatch chicks out of my own flock here in a month or two, but I am having some troubles with my incubator (and it's too late to return it.) The brand is called MeeF and my first impression was that it was super modern and nice-looking, and I was super excited about the egg...

If your chicken has something going on with it, this is the best website to use to find out what exactly it has. Hopefully none of you will ever have to use this! It's simple and easy to use: 1. go to this link 2. select if your affected chicken is a rooster, hen, or chick. 3. select all the...

Hey all, I've been wanting to start a small chick hatchery and have been wondering how exactly to advertise my chicks for sale? Well, here you get to vote on your favorite way to advertise. You will have 2 weeks to vote. (This is the 1st time that I'm doing a poll so I might mess it up :lau)

This has been let go for way to long, I just hadn't had any time to tend to it 😬 One of my roosters, my three-year-old olive egger's spurs are too long and very pointy, he has to lift up each foot entirely in order to walk to avoid him "tripping over his own spurs." I was wondering, what do I...

Hi, I need some recommendations for bantam breeds, specifically ones that are friendly and cold hardy. I'm not looking to get bantams for probably another year or so, but I want to be prepared 😄 And do any of you know what bantams Tractor Supply includes in their "assorted bantam" bin? Thank you!

Hello everyone! I am looking forward to showing my birds this year at the poultry show, and I've done research already but I need suggestions from you guys about everything- showing them, and getting them ready. I do have a few questions: What product do you use for making the feathers shiny...

Hello, has anyone had broody mama hens co-parent before, where they sit on the eggs and raise the chicks together? I have, last year in June, and it was the sweetest thing ever. I never knew that they could do that. If anyone has any pics of cute hens and their chicks, post them here and! If...

Hello everyone, this is a random thread where you can post some pics of your white Plymouth rocks and stories about them if you'd like. I'll start first: I have 2 white Plymouth rocks, Agnes and Rose, and I got both from a breeder when they were a few weeks old, along with my olive egger roo...

I have always wanted to hatch my own chicks, but know how they would look when they will grow up. I have been researching chicken genetics, but they are SO COMPLICATED and hard to understand. I was wondering if anyone can tell me basic genetics in simple terms and words????

Hello! I just received a new meeF brand incubator a few months ago, and I can't wait to hatch! Does anyone have any tips on incubating chicken eggs? First, I have a few questions: 1. Is it true that there is a vacuum effect in the incubator if I open it while chicks are hatching, and will it...