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So I have been incubating for years and generally get 100% hatch rates during the spring and summer hatches. Last year I started hatching in mid January hoping to have babies that would start laying mid summer to add to my flock when the older ladies are ready to take a break and moult. Both...

I have a question (or maybe two) for those that breed and hatch out orpington eggs. I have currently 4 orps (a rooster and three hens). I have been hatching since about January and my fertility rate is around 60%. I had someone mention that it might help if I pluck around the cloaca on my...

Has anyone used this thermometer before in your incubator. How accurate is it? Need to get a more accurate thermometer for my hatcher and incubator. If this one isn't accurate (it says it's +/- 0.1 variation in temp) what thermometer have you found that works well.

Wanted to start a thread where I can post updates as I get them on my journey. My goal is to use a dual purpose breed as a meat bird and to keep them for both eggs and meat rather than buying Cornish X every year. I know that feed to weight ratio on an dual purpose breed will never equal that...

I recently had a scare when one of my Chocolate Mottled Orpingtons went suddenly lame and started doing very poorly. I did end up sending her off to get tested for the most common poultry issues and she came back as fine so it was an injury as I had thought, but it definitely got me thinking...

Broke a cardinal rule today and Gimpy Girl Mooch moved in the house. I noticed a little before Christmas that she wasn't wanting to put weight on her right foot and was limping pretty badly. Checked it over and didn't see anything that could have caused it. The next day noticed that three of the...

So every other year I have had chickens I have used extra light in the winter to keep the chickens laying. This year I decided to try something different. I do have lights in the barn but they are only on when I go in to feed in the morning and again in the afternoon/evening and off the rest of...

Okay so I've been reading through color genetics for chickens trying to beef up on my knowledge. I want to try to breed and raise Crele Orpingtons and so I figure the first step is to know what the genetics are for that. I've been told that Crele Orpingtons specifically are on the Partridge...

Okay so I have 7 babies that hatched out that are out of two separate breeding pens one was marked as Lone Oaks Crele the other one was English Crele Lone Oak Crele Roo Roo and Hens English Crele Roo English Crele Hen These are the babies I got from both batches of eggs. My...

I have an Easter Egger rooster chick who is 5 weeks old and will be 6 weeks old tomorrow. He is fairly friendly and came out of a green egg that I was given. He hatched the weekend before Memorial Day. Local pick up only in Vermont. He is friendly and has been raised around kids and dogs.

Actually starting to get excited. For those that I have chatted with on this forum. You know I'm steering myself towards creating a dual purpose meat and eggs flock using Orpingtons. I have three hatchery birds (mainly because I was curious as to how they would compare to heritage) that are...

Okay I have a few chicks that I'm trying to ID the gender and breed any help would be great. This chick hatched on the 6th and is 3 weeks old from Meyer hatchery. This chick is from the same batch and was also a surprise chicks I ordered 2 blue orps, 1 lavender orp and 2 buffs, I...

They have arrived only 5 hatched but they are chocolate mottled heritage orpingtons fingers crossed that there is at least one boy in the bunch.

Came home tonight to a pip in my EE egg and it's actually rocking back and forth we are at day 21 today. This is the only chicken chick I have in the incubator but I have 6 others coming after the weekend is over with. He or she will be alone for a day or two but then will have buddies to play with.

I read some mixed reviews on the forum for Meyers but I have to add my own. I have done orders in the past 2011 on and gotten products (non chicks) they were great, answered all my questions and were wonderful. This year I ordered 25 of the Fry Pan Bargain chicks. I got 27 of them instead of...

Has anyone ordered the Jubilees from Meyers? What was your thoughts on them? Size, weight, coloring, growth rate, egg laying, body confirmation? I was able to book a pair for July but while all the reviews on them looked good there aren't any pictures attached. Would love to see some birds...

I am setting up a orpington flock this year for both eggs and for meat birds hatched from the layers in spring. But I have always been interested in color genetics and I am wondering what I would get. Looking to have a jubilee rooster or a chocolate mottled rooster depending on how hatching...

My niece had a fox get her drake taking her down to one Muscovy hen with no friends but the chickens so I started searching for some more scovies for her. We ended up finding her a new blue drake and 3 more hens and in the process of searching for adult hens I was given 13 hatching eggs. Being...

Okay can anyone tell me what breed chick this is. The brown chick with the white chest right in the middle of the bunch. He/she has a single comb and a full white chest and belly. With dark and light brown markings on this back wings and head. Any ideas?

So I have 25 3 week old started roosters from the Meyer Fry Pan Bargain that are all doing well. I also ordered 20 Cornish Cross and 8 BBW turkeys that arrived Thursday. For some reason, no idea why, the feed store where I ordered the CornishX and BBW did not get any other turkey orders but...