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I used to be on this board a long time ago and was thrilled to see it is still here! Now that the kids will be entering college and I am staying home and not working I am excited to get back into my chickens! I really want to focus on some nice cochins and will have some other laying hens....I...

Pet Quality Silkie Rooster in Texas. No Shipping pickup only South of Ft. Worth

I am needing some Silkie pullets or hens...seems everyone I get turns into a rooooooooo.....I would like something more than pet quality. I am not having much luck this year, I paid for some great hatching eggs and only got one chick....and it was a rooooooo. I have some beautiful cocks but they...

We went to the Fort Worth Stock show today and the chickens on display were HUGE. They had to have been on Steriods...LOL! They make my rooster look tiny and their silkies were also ALOT larger than mine......what is the deal....

While dusting my hens this evening I noticed they sure seem thin and light. They free range and have access to food and water all day. They have not been eating alot I have noticed there may even been cracked corn or scratch left over. They receive that along with layer crumbles dailey...Any...

Today while I was at school working my DH text me to say he is watching a hawk try and get my chickens!!!!!!!! HELLO>>>WATCHING!!!! Now I am POED....he tells me how two of my dear chooks are in the horse pasture and two red tailed hawks are chasing them into the barn....so I ask if he got the...

OMG Garden Ridge as some really cute chicken Christmas ornaments....

My mom called me and wanted me to come get this dead snake.....she said it looked as if one of my glass eggs was in it....sure enough one of my glass eggs was in him. That egg has been missing for several months....I went to the barn and sure enough he had been in there because there were broken...

My silkie eggs I finally got, were in the mail for 6 days....do you think I will have any luck? I let them rest then got them in the bator lastnight.....who knows when and if they will hatch with all the traveling. These are some quality eggs and I just hope I can get a few chicks out of them....

I have seven Polish that have just hatched yesterday and today. They are so cute! And they are so wild they will just run around, then sleep for a long time. They seemed weaker than my other chickens when they hatched out and now they are fine and so full of life...These are going to be some...

What else is new but I am a little confused. This board and the ezboard are seperate???? I am new here and a little confused, I figured out about the time I started here things had changed but now I am more confused..LOL!

I was sitting here in the recliner with the hatcher on the table next to me and all of a sudden the dog in my lap jumps up and I start hearing a little chirping......look at the bator and oh my gosh it is pecking a little hole! I am so excited! It has a crack about the size of your little finger...

What do you keep on hand to medicate your chickens with?

Chicken Little the new little Mille Fleur I got a few weeks ago has a yellow place on his eye and the lid appear to be swollen. They are allowed to leave the chicken house all day. And I have the flu and don't really want to deal with this too...poor little guy:(

Okay another really dumb question. When do I start counting to hatch from day eggs were collected from hen or from the day the eggs were placed in the bator? Thank you

On a local trade show this week a little old farmer wanted someone to come get his "feather legged" bantums....well I called he said these are the cutest little chickens I have ever seen but they don't like my laying hens...so I told him I would come out and he said fine but you have to take all...

Okay I set the eggs today. Now I am confussed looks like my humidy is staying around 39% Now I still have the red holes in the Hova Bator are still plugged and I have a spong and the water in the bottom. What should the humidity be? Now the other problem how do you waite 21 days?????? This is...

I have been looking at the syrofoam ones and getting more confused by the day. Went to buy one today and they old man at the feed store swears they don't work! And is still air or forced air better? All input needed. Just want these for hobby so don't want to spend alot