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I have two white leghorn males that must go today! One of them started crowing this morning and I can not keep them. I live to closes to other people. Please if you live in/ near Willis, Texas and have room for two little boys please PM me and we can set up the rest! I will even meet up with...

Ok, so I hope this title caught your eye because I need help! My girls had free range to the entire 1 acre yard, but they just loved to sit on my back porch and look in my window at what we were doing. They would then poop on the back porch. This drove my hubby crazy! I agreed to put them in a...

So here they are...they were only listed as Bantams and straight run so here is my guess! #1 Blue Easter Egg #2 White Easter Egg # 3 back (Look at the markings!) #3 the front Not sure what he/she will be #4 Barred Rock #5 Leghorns (My kids had to have a funky color chicken!) #6 Sex Links #7 &...

He is hurt bad!!! It looks like his yolk sack got shushed out! Not sure,b ut he is hurting! How do I put him down?

He is hurt bad!!! It looks like his yolk sack got shushed out! Not sure,b ut he is hurting! How do I put him down?

Do all chicks look like this when they are sleeping? I walked outside to see how they were doing and found all 16 of them sleeping! But it looked like they were all dead! Also what do you suggest I do about the floor? They poop like crazy and it is getting on their feet. I just changed the...

Do I need to tie off and snip the umbilical cord? Lone Star is doing good, she has open her eyes a few times and is trying to setup. Her color is great, has nice pink/red skin and is cheeping very good! But the cord is still attached to the shell and I don't see anymore yolk. This is one...

I just ordered 15 buff orp. chicks last night. They called me this morning and told me they be shipped out first thing Monday and I should get them by Wednesday. Has anyone ordered from them? What did you think? What are some good tips to get them going good when I get them? Thanks!

I had 2 duds, 2 blood rings and 1 cracked eggs during weeks 1- 15 that I pulled on day 18 I had 16 that had stopped developing (but I was not sure) so I left them in on one shelf and 15 that I knew were good! WELL then it happened! I got caught up in the humidity game, thinking my humidity...

Would really like some chicks! All my eggs died and now I have this big, wonderful, broody and nothing to fill it with! Was my first hatch and I started with 36 eggs! I have my fingers crossed that this one I am working with will make it, but I am not holding my breath! I live in Willis...

OK! So everyone was telling me my humidity was way to high (80%) so I opened the vents and got my humidity down to 70%! I had one egg start cracking yesterday, was moving all day, thought for sure it was going to be here by now! I looked and saw no movement! So I freaked out thinking for sure I...

Do you band your baby chicks? If so what do you band with? I was thinking about using strips of paper with tape seeing they will grow and need new bands, but if their is a better idea PLEASE let me know! Thanks!

OK! What are the stages of hatching? I am lost! This is TRULY my first time and I just want to make sure I am doing things right. I have some eggs that are shaking, not hard but you can tell their is movement going on in the inside. Two of them have faint cracks on the shell, but I do not hear...

OK! So now I am REALLY LOST! I have been doing everything the site says to do for the last 20 days. I have my humidity at 80% as the learning center said to have it between 70 -80 % , but NOW I am being told to have it at 65- 70%! SO EVERYONE Please help! This is my first ever hatch! What...

OK! So right now my babies are still in the eggs! BUT fingers cross I look like I might be having a good hatch! DUE July 7th! So I am getting my brooder togeather, so as to not wait until last min. Now every thing I read says to drop the temp of the brooder by 5 degrees every week! Well, that...

OK! So out of 36 eggs only 1 was a dud! BUT... and it is a big one, the air sac is on the side! IS THIS BAD? Am I doing something wrong? So, first off, my eggs are all brown so candling them is NOT easy especially for a first timer, but I could clearly see a network of vessels on one side...

I am sooooo lost! So I drove out an hour away to get my eggs because I did not want the USPS to crush them or something, but now I am lost. I have had the incubator hooked up and warmed up for the last 3 days so we are good their. When I got home with them I weight and TRIED to candle them...

Hi My name is Annette! I did 4-H when I was in High School, but ONLY did larger animals! I have always wanted to raise chickens, but my hubby fround at it until he saw BYC on the news and one of his guy friends talked about all the hormones in commercial eggs. So now he gave me the thumbs up...