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A friend called me over to help with a hatch that was not going well. It was day 24 and nothing so we decided to open an egg and see. The chick was alive, fully developed, but the egg sack was very large still and - here's the weird part- had what looked for all the world like dark hair lumps...

I have and have read the book "Genetics of Chicken Colours" by Sigrid Van Dort and David Hancox. Wonderful book. However, right now it's all like a brand new language bouncing around in my head. Trying to use it practically is SLOW and painful. I am hoping to strike up a conversation with...

I keep seeing photos of chicks hatching out of eggs placed in egg cartons. What's this all about? How do you do this and why? Do you keep them in the cartons the entire hatch and if so, how do you turn them? Super curious ......

I brought home two new roosters today and they are in the isolation pen. Both have fowl mites, which we dusted their behinds for before we left the previous owner's property. Now what? I have never had a problem with mites before on any of my chickens and would normally have passed on...

Curious to know how many eggs your Cochins like to set:)

I am, for the first time in my life, without a dog. We have small children, free ranging chickens galore and a serious fox problem. We do have a well fenced yard as well as acreage that's sort of fenced. The winters here can be tough but the summers are pretty mild. We want a dog who will...

Anyone interested in talking Araucana? I've just, quite unexpectedly, obtained five bantam Araucana chickens..... two blue hens, two black hens and a rooster who I'm uncertain the color of (I'll post pictures as soon as I can figure out how). I'm full of questions about this breed. I know the...

Hi. Anyone out there have a great book on poultry genetics you can recommend? Thanks.

I am reading "The Mating and Breeding of Poultry" Harry M. Lamon and Rob R. Slocum, 1920. Great book, but there are a few times in the book when the author says something like ....."it is still just a theory" or "there are two schools of thought on the matter." In the section on breeding for...