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I hatched 8 Rhode Island Reds from my own flock on 3/20 so they're about 6 weeks old. For the first 4 weeks they were isolated in my garage and fed medicated chick starters. There were no issues at all. 2 weeks ago I moved them to the chicken coop where my 3 adult RIR's live. They are the...

We have a small flock of Rhode Island Reds. Three hens and a rooster that are a year old. One hen has laid exclusively soft shelled eggs for at least the last 3 or 4 months. It's possible that she's never laid a normal egg but it's difficult to say for sure. Most days she drops it from the...

Rookie question. I'm hatching my first batch of eggs. I started unexpectedly after a dog killed much of my flock. I put all 16 eggs that I had on hand in the incubator. Since I didn't plan on hatching them, they'd just been stored on the countertop at room temperature. Some were fresh that day...

The brown ones are RIR's. I figured I'd take a shot at raising meat birds as long as I was doing chicks anyway. I got them from a local breeder at a 'chick day' event. I just asked for the best meat birds they have and he handed me the white ones. For the life of me I can't remember what he told...