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Once upon a time… my now husband surprised me with two emus. An unrelated, potential breeding pair. This was after two failed, sad, expensive hatching attempts on shipped eggs from Texas. Willy - female Goose - male After being raised in the house for as long as possible. (My daughter slept...

The pair are going on 18 to 19 months old. Unrelated male and female. We raised them in the house until they were a couple months old and bonded pretty closely with them. Even with the closeness, the female has always been standoffish, unlike our friendly male. I read so much about them early...

Got a wild hair today... decided to use some scrap wood and fencing to put a breeding pen together. Then decided to make it two pens with a center divider. Wasn’t going to cover the whole thing but reminded myself we live in Western Washington. Luckily had some roofing material just hanging out...

I have hatched a bunch of different breeds over the last year. The ONLY breed I have struggled to hatch have been Deathlayers. Hence the Deathatcher name I’ve given them. But... I separated an older pullet and an older cockerel, maybe 10 months old, into a breeding run. She laid about every...

So... I had 4 guinea fowl of breeding age that I sold. The neighbors were most likely going to kill me if I didn’t rehome them. Breeding time was very loud. I have hatched a few rare breed potluck hatching eggs in the past 4 or 5 months. During those hatchings I threw in a few of our own...

Curious when others felt comfortable to let their mus be free. Mine are let out of their kennel into the outside chicken run at 7am. I’m home from work at 5pm and let them out to run into the 1 acre bird area for a few hours before bed. At what size or age is it safe to let them be out all day...

I have no idea what happened, but my Ayam Cemani cockerel started to get what sounded like a “sore throat” about a week ago. I don’t know the exact day, but it was a gradual decline. His breathing was a bit girgly sounding. Only other thing weird with him was a swollen foot a couple weeks ago...

I’ve had 4 Guinea, 2 male 2 female since November of last year. When I got them they were about 4 months old. Got them used to the coop and run, then let them out to roam around during the day. This has been the daily ever since. They return to roost every night. There’s about an acre of fenced...

We have a lot of chickens and know 95% of the breeds that we’ve hatched. But there are a few younger pullets I’m not sure of and some adopted hens/rooster as well. First, I took in this rooster and the two hens not knowing what they were. I’m curious to find out, as one of my pullets is their...

I’m curious what others are going through in feed in a month. If you don’t buy feed and mix your own, what is it and how much does it cost for a month of feed? New’er’ to poultry, but have been raw feeding dogs for years. I prefer to know every little bit that’s going into my dogs stomach...

I am over run with cockerels! Unless someone in Washington can show me how to butcher properly... I have a group that are about 6-7 months old. Then a group of 8-9 week olds. I would love to be able to butcher, but I can’t. Thought about it many times. Older group - 1 Swedish Flower, 1 Crested...

Thread title sounds weird, but we have a hen laying very different than last fall. I read up about the egg white not being clear and having more of a white haze appearance. Everything I’ve read says that’s a sign of a fresh laid egg. I’ve had many fresh eggs that didn’t look like that. Even...

I have a hawk problem :barnie Lost my favorite cockerel Boon. Silverudd’s Blue boy. Also lost my only Flower Hen pullet. She was in a covered run and the hawk must have yanked her out. Not kidding you, while I was typing this my son heard the Guineas going off so we bolted out the door. One...

Hatched this lovely lady from some eggs that my boss gave me. They let their eggs stay in the coop for two months and just gave be the whole bunch of them. She was the only survivor. I know who dad is (just found out he’s a Silver Sebright, thank you!) Mom can’t be one of the Silkie Bantams...

Emu eggs have arrived and go into the incubator tonight or tomorrow morning. This puts hatch around March 21st. 4 eggs shipped, 2 didn’t survive shipping. Also naming the eggs this time. Egg #1 is Fizzgig 645 grams Egg #2 is Chamberlain 662 grams :fl This will be happening the entire time.

Any raw feeders out there? Hoping someone might have some ideas to cut cost. Have been raw feeding my dogs for years. Don’t think I could feed any other way. Looking for some ways to cut cost if it’s even possible. I’ve done the complete homemade diet, worked well but holy cow its time...

So... incubators anonymous isn’t working for me. I purchased 18 rare breed pot lock hatching eggs again on eBay. The last two batches I hatched were form the same poultry farm and VERY happy with the babies. Exactly 50% hatched from both batches. Would like a little higher this time. So the...

This one is acting like a cockerel. Butting heads with other roos. It’s supposed to be a blue laced red wayandotte. Flat comb as of now. But has been on the redder side as it was growing. I’ll check for better photos. 6 1/2 weeks old.

Started with 4 eggs from two shipped batches. One egg from each batch started to stink. Opened them up to find nothing. 2 eggs remaining on day 27 & day 24. 97.5 degrees and 30% to 40% humidity on average. They’ve been weighed every 3 days. Nervous I guess :P I believe there are emus in these...

Hello. I am here due to an addiction I have with animals. I love them and want to be around them all the time. If I could quit my job and spend all day with them I would! I’m 35 and have raised all my little humans. 1 is out to the house and 2 are teenagers that want nothing to do with parents...