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Please excuse my general confusion and equally confusing post, but I had to ask this. A recent conversation about hatching rate and fertility issues on another thread has made me realize there seems to be two contradictory facts circulating on the web. On one side, it's clear some heritage...

Read this article to see what I'm talking about Has anybody with an incubator ever tried out this method before? If you did, what were your results?

While browsing about chickens on another site, I came across an interesting comment. It said that hens hatched from pullets' eggs did not lay for as long in their lives as the hens hatched from 2 years old hens and older. Has anybody else observed this difference in egg-laying capacity within...

One of my year old hens drools. Not abundantly, but often enough when her head is down (like pecking at the floor). The sticky mucus flies around her mouth and makes for a messy eater, leaving her beak more often than not soiled and sticky with pine shavings, grain and dirt. She also has visible...

Okay so, I have a first-time broody hen who had a difficult hatch. 2 chicks out of 7 viable eggs hatched, 1 is vigorous and 1 is on the verge of dying. I want to make sure the vigorous chick survives. Mama hen does too. The problem is, I don't think she's feeding him enough. See, she wants to...

This is my first time with Cream Legbars. I am by no means a poultry expert, so I apologize in advance if my theory sounds foolish to any experienced breeder. Nevertheless after witnessing this in my own backyard, I feel this is something that needs to be addressed, just in case this hints at...

I'm not sure which is happening to three of my chickens, so I want to solve both problems at once. Here's the situation behind this: Due to a recurring problem of high humidity inside the isolated, non-heated coop (hydrometer shows 72-78% - the walls and windows are covered in frost), I...

It's my first time with the Speckled Sussex breed. I had another SS chick the same age as this one whose traits definitely marked him as a male at six weeks old, so I gave that one away quickly, but this chicken pictured below keeps confusing me. At first glance, the curved tail feathers say...

I want to try using sand for the poop board of one of the roosting perches in my chicken shed... but the brands suggested in other posts seem to be unavailable in my country. Or at least not available in the same brands, which leaves me unsure of the quality offered by the brands that are...

My coop has just been renovated and is ready to welcome some inhabitants. Someone gave me 3 three week old EE chicks to start with, but I want to add a few more chicken breeds to get a colorful egg basket. To that end I plan to buy some Silkies and hopefully trigger that much-talked about (and...

Due to the explosion of parasites that happened this winter in my heated coop (as well as the bad luck that came with it), I want to go back to an unheated coop next winter, to keep vermin under control. The only thing I'm not sure about, is if the current coop that I have fits the arrangements...

I fancy a docile, not too heavy, clean-footed, cushion combed, cold hardy breed that lays bleach-white eggs. My objective is to get a cold hardy breed for each egg color known by mankind, as one of my rookie dreams is to have a rainbow-egg basket type of flock in my backyard without heat or...

One of my many rookie dreams is to have a colorful egg basket to admire whenever I go visit the nesting boxes of my chicken shed. I have in mind nice, calm, cold hardy breeds that lay a minimum of 150 eggs/year, and are preferably equipped with pea, rose, cushion or walnut combs to repel...

I'll add to the above title, an almost confirmed partly blocked and/or pendulous crop. The list just keeps getting longer. My 2018 year with chickens has started with a bang - the bad kind, and it has been boiling since at least mid-december 2017. The rookie that I am in poultry unfortunately...

On one side we have the ultra-rare breed whose name is the Isbar, known as the only purebred and single comb chicken that lays green eggs on earth. On the other side we have Olive Eggers, known to most people as Rooster Marans x Ameraucana hen hybrids (though there are other cross varieties...

I'm new to chicken genetics in general, don't quite understand how everything works yet (I'm learning...), but my rooster's plumage has been nagging at me for a while now. I'm pretty sure that, from looking at the standard plumage of the breed, he's got at least one Silver Ameraucana parent...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm a complete rookie with barnyard animals of any kind. I inherited a flock of chickens when I moved houses in 2015, so despite having them for the last three years I'm still greatly inexperienced at raising chickens and looking to...