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  1. DaisyDean

    New to the site

    Hello ya'll, I am a new chicken momma located in Quincy ca. Ive been following on fb for a while now and you all have convinced me to go all in 🤣. Just throw any important information my way that you wish you had known as a first time chicken parent 🐔 🐥
  2. J

    Day 28 no Pipping Call ducks.

    Hello! Please can I have advice for an expecting duck mum 😆 I feel stressed and worried about my eggs. Brought 6 Call duck eggs from eBay. All looked good when candling. Around day 7 one died it had the ring of death. Around day 18 another one appeared to of died too, the egg was mostly yellow...
    • Jo Park
    • Thread
    • brinsea call duck eggs call ducks day 28 duck eggs day 28 no pipping duck eggs duck incubation first timer help needed no pipping
    • Replies: 38
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  3. Mercyr79

    Momentary prolapse…

    Hi. First time chicken owner here. One of my four chickens looked like she had a prolapse. At least that’s what I found it be from looking online. There was poop attached to some innards coming out of her vent. There was also some white stringy stuff dripping out of her vent. She was behaving...
  4. starrri

    Egg is rocking back and forth before day 18

    Hey.. is it normal for an egg to rock back and forth before day 18-21? I'm on day 15 and I swear I see it moving.. 🥺
  5. FeatherCreekAuburn

    Hawk near miss. Looking for clarity!

    Hi! This is my first post (been lurking since April when I started my flock! Hi all!) I know there are thousands of hawk posts (I’ve read most of them!) I have some specific-to-me questions for the community and am hoping it can provide me and anyone else lurking some insight to reduce risks...
  6. BawBaw101

    Hello fellow chicken lovers!

    Hello again! I’m a first time timer who hatched my first chickens, 3 out of 6 hatched… and ALL WERE BOYS… 🤦‍♀️ luckily two days after my 3 hatched someone gifted me 3 more from Southern States. All of those have turned out to be girls thankfully. I rehomed two of the three Roos but I couldn’t...
  7. graypes

    HELP Duck Eggs day 27 still "shadowing"

    They are so close to internally pipping but they are all still moving against the inner membrane. My incubation was too humid early on so I ran it dry for the last week (around 25%) to grow the air cells but now I'm really worried that they're shrink-wrapped. Humidity inside the hatcher is...
  8. A

    Sexing 5 week chickens

    Hi all! Really new here. Went to local farm and feed store and got 6 baby chicks. My kids picked them out based on how "cute" they were. No idea of breed or sex. Any help is appreciated. They were all the same size and now are in all sorts of sizes! I have a teeny one that hasn't grown much at...
  9. Lessons learned! Brinsea Mini Advance 2

    Lessons learned! Brinsea Mini Advance 2

    So I got an incubator for Christmas. At first I never really wanted one, and decided to let mother nature do her own thing at her own pace. I've always let broody hens sit the eggs and do the work for me - I've always just personally felt it's better for the chicks to get that chicken knowledge...
    • Fallenone05
    • Article
    • 4 min read
    • first timer humidity i made some mistakes incubator learning learningcurve
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Member Pages
  10. ArthurLedd

    TEMP DROP

    when I went to the brood box this morning the temp was down to 77 degrees peeps were still moving around quite lively. they are are 5 days old today will this temp drop hurt them. the temp was 55 out side last night and will go up to 79 today i have heat light in brood box like i said they still...
  11. earth_toes

    Earth Loving Chicken Lady!

    Hello All! I am beginning the journey of making our property into our own little homestead, complete with .... you guessed it! ... chickens! I am a seasoned gardener who takes pride in everything I do, and am always looking for ways to improve. I'm open to any suggestions and words of wisdom for...
  12. Tac01711

    Hello!

    Been researching chickens for months and months. Finally started incubation, and bought a few here and there, we now have 22 chicks! And a $2000 coop.. We have 3 that I hatched, salmon favorelle , Easter egger, black sumatra. The rest are from tractor supply, 3 sienna stars, 2 golden comets...
  13. JennH07

    I have a leaning duckling

    Hello! I am a new user, I'm going through my mom's profile since I'm having trouble with my own. I am 16 and was just gifted my first pair of ducklings that I have been very excited for. They are about three weeks old, just recently bought from our local tractor supply. We use to have chickens...
    • JennH07
    • Thread
    • duckling first timer leaning sick
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. chickyrookie

    Day 22: No Pips :(

    This is my first time hatching, and it's been a headache. I bought a Little Farm 9300 incubator at yard sale and couldn't wait to use it. I've read hours and hours of "how-to" articles. I mostly struggled with calibrating temp and humidity, but have done everything else as by the book. It's...
  15. NikiMcAlister

    Chicken Tractor questions

    I've been doing a lot of research about chicken tractors. My family just relocated from Florida to Eastern Tennesee (Roane area) and our landlord said it was okay for us to use the land how we want (we're renting on 8 acres.) One of the biggest things we want to do is get chickens. My plan...
  16. zowie214

    [Resolved] Duck attacked by a dog, large chest wound please help

    My ex-boyfriend has a pitbull on a chain in the yard and he lets all the birds wander around freely. Unsurprisingly, our duck Ponyo must have wandered too close and the dog got ahold of him. My ex rushed out to get Ponyo and he has Ponyo inside now, on a towel with some water and he's been...
  17. FatTurtleSip

    Integrating a new flock

    I raised a flock of 4 hens about a year ago mostly free range as chicks up until they started laying. Once they started laying we were forced to keep them enclosed for majority of the time. I decided to get a new flock of 5 hens and we've had them for about 4-5 months and they just started...
  18. muscovy573

    Muscovy ducks!

    So years of having chickens I have wanted to take on a trio of ducks. After lots of research and calling around I fell in love with the Muscovy ducks! After months of trying to find the right bird (I wanted barred and pied ducks!) I finally found the best lookin trio! Now, I have raised...
  19. rowechicks

    First time meat chicks: fermented feed, breed, and other questions

    Hello! I got laying chicks in spring and am starting to get the hang of it. I was in our local Tractor Supply and found fall chicks for a quarter! I brought them home only to find out that they are meat chickens! What can others tell me about Red Rangers (I'm not finding much)? I read a post...
    • rowechicks
    • Thread
    • fermented feed first timer new additions to flock red rangers
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  20. ThePrancingPullet

    Eggsited about new membership

    Hello everyone! I'm a new member here (not all that unusual...) and I've wanted chickens for years. (There's a photo of me holding a hen and grinning like the happiest person on earth in the middle of winter). And, after heated discussions on if chickens will work in a small urban lot, I've won...
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