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Hello all. I have been hatching eggs for about a year. This is my fourth batch. So I've done it but I wouldn't say I am well seasoned by any means. My prior hatches have all gone very well, especially considering my first were shipped eggs. I have a brinsea octo eco 20. Temp and humidity are all...

Hello all. I decided to try my hand at an olive egger. So I am hatching out cream legbar roo vs welsummer hen. My question is, will I be able to autosex the chick as I would a cream legbar? I know welsummers are also able to be sexed at hatch but wasn't sure if a mix would change things.

So last fall I raised some buff orp/cream legbar mutts. They are just starting to lay between end of January to now. We have had an extraordinary amount of double yolk eggs. Of the green eggs we have been gathering about 25% have been double yoke. I have never even had one in two years of...

Hello all. I posted a topic in the breeding, genetics, exhibition section but there doesn't appear to be much activity there as I got no response. So I will try again here hoping for the best. I have four cream legal roosters that I hatched this spring. I am not sure which to select for...

Hello all. Forgive me of my ignorance. I've tried reading the standard for cream legbar but I'm just not educated enough with the lingo etc to make this call. I hatched some cream legbars this spring and am looking to breed them. I may sell some on the side and wish to have the right coloring if...

Just looking to see if anybody has a neat feeder that they use. I have 14 chicks. They are two weeks old. I am using the metal feeders that you screw jars into. The kind you can get at any fleet store. I have large hopper feeders for my full grown chickens. I am now having to fill my three...

I posted this in the chicks forum, but didn't get much of a response and was advised to try here. I recently hatched my first batch of eggs. I wanted welsummers and cream legbars. I had an idea that they looked similar, but didn't worry about it until I hatched a bunch of legbar dudes on the...

So in my first hatch I got cream legbars and welsummers. I knew ahead of time that they looked similar as chicks, but didn't think much about it. That was until I hatched out only one female legbar and a bunch of males yesterday. Today I have had two legbars hatch and many welsummers. So now I...

How come I have never heard of this on this website? In case you are unaware of what it is, it's an upside down box that sits just above the ground. It allows the chicks easy in/out access but is meant to keep the heat in. Most don't even seem to use the 250 watt heat lamps for them. I'd...

So this may be a stupid question but is it a big deal if my incubator is seriously full and I leave chicks in there after they hatch. I'm getting into micro managing mode. There's nowhere for them to be unless they walk on the other eggs. I know that you don't want to open the incubator to...

Where I have been getting my layer feed only seems to have broiler starter and no regular chick food. It's a higher protein content and I'm sure that's about the only difference. Would it be a big deal to use that instead of the standard chick food?

Ok this may be a stupid question but here it is. I don't have any water on my property. Although I have water close to me. I am surrounded by fields and there are some ponds nearby. One of the fields across from my property will develop a small pond on the spring and it will dry up in the heat...

So I have had chickens for a year. Bought some buff orps from a local farmer. I decided that this year I was going to try to hatch eggs. This winter I got a brinsea Eco 20. Seems to knee temps regulated nicely. Bought some cream legbar and welsummer eggs from byc members. Put them in the...

So I have a dozen welsummer and cream legbar eggs coming in the mail. Welsummer just arrived today and legbar should be here tomorrow. Now I received 15 welsummer eggs. So even if I receive an even 12 legbar eggs, will I be able to fit them all? Can I stack more eggs on top of the other eggs...

My roosters got pretty bad frostbite on their feet. I have been watching eggs to see if they were fertile. One rooster seems to be trying to do his thing. I am very inexperienced at this. They seem to look different than they had been looking. What do you think of the eggs? Fertile?

Hello all. Would like some insight on my new brooder build. I have this old file cabinet that I just put on its back that I have been using. It did fine for raising 10 chicks last year but they do outgrow that fast even though it was big for a file cabinet. I bought the brinsea Eco 20 and if I...

Not sure if you can see or not. Looking to get some use out of my incubator but literally all of my roosters got frostbite on their feet this winter and don't seem do be doing their thing. Trying to verify my looking at the white spot but am inexperienced. Thoughts? I'm thinking not fertile.

My chickens have full access to my 8 acre property and beyond. Couldn't find anything discussing ways to improve your property for free range birds. Is there something you can plant? Environment that you can encourage for certain bugs? Thoughts?

So I have three roosters with frostbite on their feet. Two of them are essentially one footed. The other will lose toes but still has both feet. I was planning on hatching eggs this spring but will these roosters still do their thing? I'm worried I may have a fertilization problem.

I apologize if this is improper forum etiquette but I posted this same toptic in the geese forum and wanted to see what the turkey crowd had to say. If this is against the rules please delete or close it. Below is what I wrote. I'm thinking about getting some bigger birds this year. Right now...