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My daughter has the same affliction as I do - so when she went to the Farm Store, she came home with this little guy. He was the tiniest bantam in the bunch. I've never had one like this, so I'm not sure what she's got. He's about 7-8 weeks old now, and standing with his best friend Ms...

I know there's a HUGE section on hatching eggs and all sorts of information on incubators but I don't OWN an incubator. I found momma hen running around out in the yard far away from her nest with one chick hatched this morning, one with it's beak showing and four more not even pipped yet. I put...

I'd like to see a photo of a turkey egg - preferably compared to a chicken egg. I'm getting some new eggs at our place, and we're starting to suspect that they may be from our BBW turkeys because they are kinda big and they just look different. Sort of speckly. We have 14 young hens that are...

I'm posting these pics for people who are curious about what a chick looks like that didn't make it out of the shell. My kids were fascinated (and amazingly respectful) of the whole process of looking inside the eggs that didn't hatch today. I was guessing by what was left of the sac on...

So almost a month ago, my mother sent an email offering her "portable, feathered incubator" for hatching some of my fertile eggs. Of course I took her up on her offer (I mean, hello? Who wouldn't want MORE chicks?) I took fourteen eggs with me in various colors and sizes (some from my 6 month...

Can you help identify the breed(s) of these chickens? A gentleman stopped by our place one day (upon seeing all the happy chickens running around) and asked if we'd take some chickens off his hands that had been running around his neighborhood. He had penned them up, then found out they belonged...

My daughter ran in the house saying something about a hen having babies. Here's what I did: :o before I ran out of the house to see what she was talking about. I was picturing a broody hen (which I had been waiting a long time for), or some sort of joke (we DO have in-laws visiting this...

I came home from a weekend away and one of my roosters is either clamping his eye shut or it's missing. At first I thought it was just gone but now, I can't tell. He won't let me get close enough to him to do anything or check him over. He doesn't appear to see (obviously) from the right eye...

Somebody plopped this little tiny egg right on the floor of the coop. I almost missed it! At first, I wondered what other kind of bird might have been visiting! I don't have much history on the hens in my coop, as I just recently adopted them, but I understood the youngest is a year old. Out of...

Thanks Ideal - One of my crested special straight run chicks looks to be a sultan! He/she is SO tiny (he spent the first couple days on the brink of death) and still looks to be the same size as when they all arrived last week. The other chicks look huge in comparison - but I'm thrilled to get...

I've had chickens for the past couple of years, but tomorrow we are adopting an entire flock from a family that is moving out of state. There are 18 birds all together (and a turkey!). I know, what was I thinking?? :o Basically, I have never done something quite like this before, and am...

I placed my order last week with IDEAL, on the 13th, and was told that my order could be shipped out as early as the 18th. I wasn't expecting my peeps until tomorrow, but at 6:30 this morning the phone rang. It was one of those "who the HECK is calling at this hour!!" kind of moments until I...