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I found this while looking for my evening eggs about 15 min ago. Each layer revealed a new egg-thing. I hang out with my flock multiple times a day and no egg is left in there over an hour. The one who laid this is one of the leghorn cross "Ideal" hens. She is almost 3 years old. She eats Layena...

My year old black broiler from Ideal Poultry has a not-so-fluffy butt. It does not stink, per se. It smells like a chicken butt. Not a foul chicken butt. She is on purina layer feed (and greens, bugs, sometimes a nibble at dog kibble). It has been in the 90s as far as weather. She is my...

I got a wee egg this afternoon. It was the precious-est. Enjoy!

As I live in an area rural enough to have unreliable electricity (went out 4 times today, for example), I will let hens hatch eggs because an electric incubator will be a dreadfully risky adventure. Heck, my electric oven is risky. I have lost loaves of bread and batches of cookies to sudden...

Mom is a black broiler. Dad is Ree-Shard (From the fantastic thread regarding what breeds you wish you had). Incubator: White Silkie. The hatch has been ongoing since yesterday around 7pm. Its 8pm here now. I am attaching pictures. Do I assist? If so, please let me know what to do. I held...

I would like to contribute my experience with Ideal Poultry's Black Broilers. First, these birds are hardy and gentle. I butchered several (I do it by hand- cervical dislocation- minimal flapping) and they were calm during the entire process. They matured slower than I would have liked on 24%...

Greetings: I have fry pan buff orpington and barred rock boys. I know they likely will not be as succulent as the meaty ladies I raised last year, but I want to give them every chance at that level of yumminess. Is a 24% chick starter feed on to give for the remaining 3 weeks before I look at...

Greetings! 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Unknown. Grey/charcoal/few purple feathers. Poofy mustache feathers. About half the weight of my australorp mix ladies. Fully feathered but not of age for eggs. 2) What is the...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? 2 years ago, by chance/pity. A grizzled old mix rooster I named Garth. He died peacefully on his post. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 12 for eggs and breeding 9 chicks I was given as payment for helping a friend...