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I have two hens who lay SUPER bloomy eggs like this one. Is this going to pose an issue with incubation or hatching? Perhaps not enough water loss?

Has anybody seen this? The chicken calculator has cream + mahogany = buff, which I would be interested to see. I had this guy in my hatch from earlier this year who appears to have two cream genes and only a single barring gene - his mother is not barred and dad is single barred. There are...

My current batch of chicks is about 7 weeks old and most are fully feathered out at this point. Then I have this boy and I’m not sure what to make of it. The shoulder part seems to be getting better, so I thought just slow feathering (and his back was like this but seems fine now), but his tail...

I am not new to hatching eggs and I have never experienced a pip in the wrong end until this time. They also did not start hatching a day or two ahead like they usually do, and I believe my temps were too low. But I’m puzzled by these pips. Friday was day 21 which makes today day 23. I still...

I'm collecting eggs from a variety of hens penned with an F1 male and I'm working on my breeding spreadsheet where I track parentage and results, etc. I am not sure what to call the progeny of some of these. One is an F1 hen so that would result in F2 progeny - easy. But I also have him with...

I tried nipple waterers and cups for my flock and didn’t have great luck. It seemed like they couldn’t get enough water with the nipples, and the nipples and cups both seemed to get clogged irreversibly over time. The cups also had tons of dirt in them always bc of the dust bathing (our area is...

So a friend was telling me how she has three male ducks and she puts a kiddie pool by one of her fruit trees and dumps it every morning and then moves it to the next. I thought this was genius and we didn’t really want ducks (all animals must earn their keep here) but we are going to be putting...

Are wild type chicks considered autosexing due to the sexual dimorphism or is that only applicable to sex-linked traits like barring? I was under the impression that this IS autosexing but someone today said only if there is something like barring involved, which doesn’t make sense to me. That...

Some questions for those of you familiar with keeping horses! Are they social animals that absolutely need a companion (aka can I get only one or do I need two)? We have soft, dirty sand for our soil here in FL and it/they would really just be on our property or maybe on our limerock road...

Today we were moving 5.5 week old chicks from our 4x8 brooder tractor and I set it down on the head or neck of one of them. It’s not horribly heavy (2x4 base and PVC/hardware cloth hoops) and I didn’t drop it, just gently put it back down after we had lifted it maybe 6 inches to grab some of...

We have tons of clubs around us focused on showing so a friend and I are starting one for homeschoolers that is not focused on showing animals (they still can, that’s just not the main point). I believe our official theme with the county is “healthy living” so we came up with gardening, meat...

Has anyone used this site? I know everyone was sending off feather samples to Germany through the Silverudd’s group but I just found these guys in Miami. They offer both blood ($20) and feather testing ($25). https://orders.iqbirdtesting.com/product/blue-egg-gene-with-blood-sample/...

Sooo I have one single olive egger pullet from my cross (of course) and I found a green egg last week. It’s not olive but lighter green, and I assumed it was my F1 girl so I was disappointed. Couple days ago I found one of my Cream Legbar pullets in the nest box. Thought I would find a blue egg...

I’ve seen various thoughts on the feather pattern of a Welsummer hen and wanted to see if anyone could offer some clarity. What genes are in play here? Why does the male not present with this pattern…is it sex-linked in some way? And any thoughts on how this will play with barring? Pic of one...

I have F1 Welsummer x Cream Legbar olive eggers and my goal is olive eggers that breed true (among other things). I know I need to cross to a Legbar again to pick up the other blue egg gene, but my understanding is that will more or less dilute the brown egg coloring...if the charts going...