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So, I injured my back at the beginning of the year (god knows what I did, it just started hurting). An MRI shows that I have herniated two discs, and despite religiously going to Physical Therapy, I am still having pain. The fun part is that my doctor doesn't want me on long term meds, and...

Hi all, I have a very confusing chick that just hatched out from my recent batch of pencilled palm eggs. Everyone else in the hatch looks absolutely normal, but this one hatched out pure white. Is this a normal throwback for pencilled palms? He has what appears to be possible ivory colored...

Hi all, Our pencilled palms are going egg-crazy right now and we have more than we can incubate. Would anybody like to buy any? We paid 4 dollars per egg from a hatchery using Porter lines. I'd be willing to negotiate something similar with anyone interested. I just incubated a batch to...

Do not buy from this ebay seller. I have done many online transactions, and by far, this seller has the worst ethics of anyone I've ever worked with. The seller sent me 10 infertile eggs (completely lacking a blastoderm). I tried to work with her for 3 solid weeks, and got nothing but lies...

Hi all, We just recently had a hatch that produced an obscene amount of roosters, and cannot keep them due to ordinances in the neighborhood. Rather than stressing about re-locating so many mixed roosters, we have decided to process them. Because they need to be processed before they crow...

Hi all. I'm a pretty avid baker, and I've searched the ends of the internet for a really good sandwich bread recipe. I've often come upon disappointment, and small loaves. However I'm stubborn and kept trying. Finally, one day, I stumbled across this...

Hi all, I thought I'd share the fun here on guessing the breed of my new years day hatched babies! Our local Whole Foods store sells fertilized eggs (no idea why, maybe magic health enzymes), so I thought I would amuse myself by incubating a 12 pack. Here's what I got: They...

So, my hatch is going depressingly badly due to my incubator. Today I thought things were looking up when one of the eggs that had been peeping all night. I just checked on them, and the bottom of the incubator was covered in a yellow fluid. I thought that was strange, and noticed that a...

.... is hatched babies!!! Heehee. I'm going to be setting by the end of this week as soon as my shipment of Marans arrives in the mail. That should be placing the hatch within a week of Christmas! Anyone else planning on getting chicks from Santa? Join in!

Hi all, One of my girls is going through the heaviest molt I've ever seen on a chicken, and for all intents and purposes, she seems to have recovered fully. It took her about 3 months to get back into shape. For a while she was so bad that she was staggering about and we decided to confine...

Ok, so I've reluctantly given up on trying to use my turner in my Hovabator due to the temp spikes it causes when it operates. This leaves me with hand-turning. The last time I did this, it cost me a lot of money in gas because I'd go home during lunch from work, and turn them in the middle...

Hi all, I have two batches of Marans eggs on the way to me after Veteran's Day, and I am trying to decide if I should give my egg-turner another try. I am using a hovabator, and have had successful hatches with hand-turning, but only failed hatches with the auto-turner. I believe it has to...

Hi all, haven't been on the forums in a while because of RL, but I have a hen who is in heavy moult that I am concerned about. She is roughly two years old and going through her first BIG moult. Everything seemed fine until I noticed two days ago that she has trouble walking. She'll take two...

Hi all, I was blissfully sleeping two nights ago when I was jolted awake by the most godaweful hellspawn shriek I've ever heard outside of a movie-theatre in my life. It came from right outside my window, which faces the back yard. I was terrified for my chickens and pelted outside, only to...

Hi all, I am the proud new owner of 5 PP hatchlings as of today (couldn't be happier!), and I noticed that they come in a bit of a variety of colors. I was wondering if this particular variety of birds was genetically like Blue, and that the entire clutch wouldn't be the same color. Or, if...

Ok, so I may just be worrying for no reason because my last attempt to incubate turkeys ended so disasterously, but I'm looking for some opinions here. I locked down my eggs two days ago on day 25, and noticed yesterday that my humidity was stubbornly hanging at 54%. So I dumped water into the...

Hello, I'm currently incubating some turkey eggs, and we are on about day 19 right now. I have two eggs that are the epitome of perfection upon candling, one egg that is obviously a dud, and one egg that is doing really, really weird stuff. The weird egg looked like it was shaping up to be...

Hi all, I just wanted to know if anyone here has had experience with the above hatchery. So far, I'm pretty unimpressed, and I havn't even gotten my eggs from them. I ordered 10 turkey eggs from them, thinking that they'd ship them out to me pretty quickly. There was no information on the...

Hi all, I thought I'd post this question here so I could get the down-low from the experts. I'm very interested in purchasing Ostrich eating eggs, as I've heard a lot about how wonderful they are in baking. However, all my internet prowling on Google yeilds eggs for insane prices. Is it...

Woohooo! Post 2,000!!! I must love chickens waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much! PS moderators: Feel free to move/remove this post as needed. I put it here as there is no section for 'shameless bragging' :P