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Snap traps are awesome for killing rats. Keep them out of reach of the chickens though or you will end up with some that have a broken neck. The rats I had were running along the roof tresses so that is where the traps were. One rat down almost every night. There is still one pesky rat that...

Both pullets.

Shrink wrapping is normally caused from low humidity during hatching, but it could also happen if the humidity is too low during incubation and the egg will just dry out too much. I've tried a dry hatch and was the worst hatch rate I've ever had. The chicks were so dried out they could not...

Nice purple markings! I'm going to have to start looking for more colors for mine.

My nakeds officially do not like the nasty cold weather we are having. Out of six hens, the two oldest ones stopped laying in November, the two middle ones are broody, and the two youngest ones are laying 2 or 3 eggs per week. We'll all be happy when spring arrives. And my little blue/tan...

Out of my last 3 hatches I said I wouldn't keep any of the chicks, but this little girl is so pretty I couldn't let her go. It is hard to see in the picture, but her feathers are tan and blue barred. Not sure what she'll look like when she's all grown up.

I have a new rooster that is all by himself until I get the new coop finished. He sleeps in a dog house at night and seems happy with it. It has been freezing here every night for the last week. I think your little dog houses will work for yours. Mine should be roosting by now...not sure...

I love the beards! Some of my olive chicks hatched with beards. It is odd because my EE rooster doesn't have a beard, and the moms are marans. They are really cute regardless.

Ant Farm, do you know for sure your rooster has 2 barring genes? He doesn't look totally barred from the photo. My rooster only had one barring gene, which he passed to half of his offspring (of course). I crossed him with black hens and got some barred pullets that look just like just like...

Mine are pets and they are laying hens as well. I'm developing a line of olive egger NNs as well as chocolate brown egg laying NNs. I already have the olives. One more generation to the dark brown eggs. The eggs they lay now are pretty dark, but not quite dark enough for my taste. The good...

We do take it personally because we love our birds. If someone came up to you as you walked your dog and told you it was ugly, sure you'd be offended too. There is this thing called the golden rule...

I also like different and unusual...naked neck, beards, feathered legs, crests, rumpless...give me them all! ETA: I don't really like the extra toe on some of the exotics, but it would be in poor taste to go over to the silkie thread and post that there.

In my area I have been to poultry shows and our state fair (which is the 6th largest in the country) and have never seen a Turken there either. Maybe it is because our birds are too busy "working" and don't have time for sows. Around here the shows are full of Seramas and Polish. cute, but...

Y'all are making me sad with talk of the heat! It is 27 degrees here and the ground has pretty much been frozen solid for a week. Today I need to go out and try to clean frozen bedding from the coops. On a funny note...one of my NNs decided it was a good time to go broody. She's in the...

I believe the curled toes are a result of something not going right after lock down. I've only had one hatch that had chicks with problems. Three turkens died randomly, and several others had leg issues. I realized after the fact that one edge of my hatcher was about 5 degrees cooler than the...

My NN rooster was so big that he hurt the girls no matter how many hens I had. He was my only adult rooster, and he had about 12 or 15 hens (maybe more...I lost count) all to himself. They were all missing the feathers from their backs as well as some from their heads. He didn't mean to rough...

Most of my cockerels go through a phase at around 6 or 7 months of age where they exhibit strange "hen like" behavior. I had one that would sneak behind a bale of hay by himself and make all kinds of cooing noises. We couldn't see him so he was either laying down or had his head lowered to...

Just want to put this out there - it is never "too late" in the year for a broody to hatch eggs. We live in the mountains of Washington where it does get very cold and we also have snow. I've let my broody hatch in December. Those tiny babies were out on the icy ground at 5 days old free...