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What temperature have you been incubating at?

Great article with lots of information.

A nice article about some kinds of chicken body language.

Looks really nice! I love the inclusion of drawn plans. Are there roosts or nest boxes? I didn't see any in the pictures, so I wondered if you added them after.

Nice use of free and recycled materials to make a coop.

A good premise for an article. It would be nice to see it fleshed out with more breeds, like for instance seramas, which people often keep indoors. Also, make sure you are not using pictures without permission - at least one of these images is copyrighted to another website.

Good info on how to select and store hatching eggs! Some of the pictures are broken, so you may want to take a look at that and fix them :)

Looks like a nice coop! Thanks for adding interior pictures!

Isabel in brahmas is lavender-diluted partridge, so if you wanted to breed some yourself, you'd have to cross lavender brahmas with partridge brahmas. And it would take two generations, since lavender is recessive, and black is dominant, so the first cross will produce just blacks. But if you...

They look like they might be silver swedish - looks like you have some black swedish and blue swedish. These would be the same breed, they just got two copies of the blue gene, so they're silver, and much lighter.

Well you've talked me into it. Into the incubator they go.

Wrong time of year :) Usually most emus are well done laying by now. HOWEVER. I have two older eggs left that I never did anything with. Hmm.

Lots of good ideas for safe treats to give your flock.

A cute little coop! Very nice for a few bantams.

Do you know what antibiotic it was? Did the vet clean out and flush the abscess?