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I live in the Twin Cities metro area of Mn. I just received my chick order today and all but one died. Is there anyone (preferably on the east side) that can spare a day old chick or two so the surviving little one has a friend?

I just had the worst. hatch. EVER. I need to do one last batch before the season is over (since I got way less than I was hoping to hatch), but I really want to make good and sure I have this issue set before I try again, because I can't take another incubator full of dead-in-the-shell...

My brain is obviously on overflow. I've been staring at these numbers and can't get them to make sense. It's my first time with a "bigger" incubator. I had a little Brinsea eco mini, that was kind of dummy proof. (Put water here, then put more water here. Done.) This one has to be...

I am super egg-cited! I have fertile eggs arriving TODAY! Yay! I have a question about the process... I had bad luck with shipped eggs in the past and I am wanting to do things to the letter to get better results. I usually number and candle my own or local eggs before sticking them...

I'd like to change my user name, please, to Little Red Coop (or all one word, LittleRedCoop, if separate isn't available). I don't see a way to do it...?

I have 25 hens, of varying ages and breeds. I have 8 nesting boxes, in a row, with curtains in front of the openings, located under the roost/poop board. I also have a kitty litter bucket nest box, off in a different corner, for a black copper marans hen who refuses to lay her eggs in the...

Our run is covered with plastic mesh "bird netting". After hours of freezing rain, followed by sleet and then snow, the cover to our run is sagging pretty badly. It has wires crossing it to help hold it up, but I'm guessing they can only stand so much weight. There are icicles hanging down...

I got fertile eggs from a breeder of BCM and blue Orpingtons. 5 hatched. I have been tracking their feathering, waddles, combs and all that stuff... I think I have these guys guessed right? Can anyone who knows these breeds well confirm for me? I am throwing out guesses, but would love...

I've got 3 Easter Egger / Ameraucana hens that I got at our feed store this spring. All 3 have the ear muffs and the "beard". Lol. I call them my bearded ladies. One has started laying gorgeous pale blue eggs. She's got willow green legs and mostly white earlobes. The other two also have...

I bought a dozen fertile eggs from a local breeder for my broody-butt to hatch. Half Black Copper Marans and half Blue Orpington eggs. 5 hatched. Now I'm trying to guess who's going to be a he or a she. They are 5 & 1/2 weeks old. I posted 4 pics of each, so you can see different angles...

I'm a little worried... Anyone have experience or knowledge with postal policies on heat and live animals? I ordered a batch of chicks months ago, thinking Sept would have decent temps for delivery. Generally cooler, but not cold. Turns out, we ended up having one of the hottest days of the...

I ordered chicks back in early June for the fall. I have 8 arriving in just over a week. I will save you from the series of ridiculous events that have preceded the need for my post, but the result is 2 black copper marans and 3 blue orpington chicks that hatched under my broody-butt...

It's day 6 and I went out to check on the eggs my broody is so faithfully sitting on, and thought I'd take just a little sneak peak at them, because I will do my "official" weigh-in check-in and candling tomorrow, on day 7... But I couldn't resist taking a quick look. And I got to see this...

I bought some fertile eggs (shipped) for my broody to sit on. They have brown shells and I'm just not sure of what I'm seeing... This is my first hatch. I took these pictures on day 7 (last night). I have 13 eggs all total. But these are two. My camera wasn't cooperating, so these are the...

I have a broody gal that just wouldn't give up, so I bought some fertile eggs for her to sit on. She's been broody since the 7th of July, eating and drinking when I would pull her off the nest. Now, all of 3 days after putting the eggs under her, when I was out in the coop just now, I saw...

How does one go about choosing the "right" rooster? I ordered straight runs of several breeds so that I would be able to have several roosters to choose from. They are all roughly 11 weeks old. I am pretty confident I have figured out which are the Roos and which are the pullets. Now I...

I have a batch of 18 chicks, all are 10 weeks old. They are out in the coop with the big girls, but I have it divided, so they can only see each other through the wire mesh. They also have their own enclosed run. They are fully feathered and very active. They've been out there for roughly 2...

I got a shipment of chicks this morning. My second shipment ever. I'm a newbie. So please bear with me... One chick arrived dead (Chick #1). I think it got trampled? After getting everyone settled, I noticed that 2 seemed weak, shaking, wobbly and lethargic, so I set up a second brooder to...

I posted this earlier in Behaviors, but haven't gotten any responses. I have 4 Australorps, all aged 7 1/2 months old. We live in MN. One poor gal looks like she's been through the wringer. Her head is bare, her tail is all shredded, her butt is bare, her tummy is bare... She is a pitiful...

I have 4 Australorps, all aged 7 1/2 months old. We live in MN. I have 2 girls with messed up tails and some minor feather loss on their tummies. Then, I have one poor gal who looks like she's been through the wringer. Her head is bare, her tail is all shredded, her butt is bare, her tummy...