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I went down into the basement this morning to find a dead chick in the brooder. It was a week old. I hatch my own chicks every year and never had one die a week after hatching. She seemed healthy last night running around. I'm hoping she was just weak and it is not some sickness that will go...

I candled yesterday on day seven and found one egg had the air cell on the side should I cull now or is there a chance it could survive

I have a neighbor that buys eggs from me and we were talking about my chickens and the different treats I give them. I told her that I give them sprouted BOSS, she said that then there is probably Omega 3's in my eggs. I told her I just give it as treats but I would look on the internet and...

[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]I built a no waste feeder after cleaning out my coop and seeing all the waste. I used 1'x 2' OSB and and screwed them together using 2"x2"x1'boards in the corners. I wanted to make it light so I didn't make a frame. I made the top out of runners cut in half that I...

I've just had my first loss of a chicken in my flock, I had originally thought it was a raccoon. I leave for work at 5:30 am it is just starting to get light and I let the chickens out of there coops before I go to work. I thought maybe a raccoon could have climbed the fence. What ever it was...

I have to tell the whole story so bare with me it's funny. I saw an add on Craigs list for $5.00 6 week old Coo Koo Marans pullets that should have been my first clue, but I really wanted some chocolate egg layers. I drive 120 miles to meet this lady and she's not home so I call her she forgot...

I went to the Hodag Festival for a week and while I was gone my garden got over run with weeds. So I let my chickens pick through it for me. [/IMG][/IMG]

I have one chick that just hatched 2 days ago that had a couple small pieces of shell stuck to its back I didn't want to open the incubator to get it off because I had several eggs pipped in there. The next day I opened the bator and took it out and used a damp paper towel to soften and loosen...

So here is my story, I got an incubator for my birthday and originally I was not going to incubate this late in the spring but my daughter convinced me that I should make sure the incubator worked properly. Didn't take much convincing. So I decided to collect a few eggs from my mixed laying...

I know that these two chicks are suppose to be Easter Egger pullets but I am more interested in what to call their coloring pattern. What would you call this color and what breeds would have been used to make these chicks? In the next two pictures you can kind of see the second...

We bought 9 GLW chicks from Tractor Supply during chick days. They were straight run. They are almost 8 weeks old. I am not familiar with rose comb chickens but I am afraid that I have almost all roosters. I believe I have 2 hens and 7 roos. Could anyone please give me their opinions on the...

This is my first time with an incubator I have a Farm Innovator and my instructions say the humidity should be 55 to 60% for the first 18 day and then 65% the last 3 days. I'm on the third day and mine is at 50% Looking at all the other threads on humidity it seems way to high. So now for the...

Why are my GLW chicks such assorted colors? Roos and pullets?

Picked up some new chicks today at the local TSC. The guys working had a chart that said what breeds the chicks were but I would like to get the opinion of my fellow BYC'ers. These first two are suppose to be White Leghorns. Black spots are kind of throwing me off. These next few...

My BO rooster has gotten frostbite on the tips of his comb. I noticed it the morning we had -22F. I add an extra 100w bulb by the roosts and left the lights on longer 10pm til 4pm, the next morning it was -14F. and the frostbite has not gotten worse. My coop is insulated and ventilated up high...

Whenever I pick up one of my hens and then go to set her back down the other hens attack her. What gives? Is this just part of the pecking order. It seems to happen to every hen that I pick up. No matter what breed.

Hello! My name is Ginger and I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. After several years of talking about getting chickens, I finally talked the DH into letting me take the plunge and so we picked up our first dozen from our local Tractor Supply. I didn't think that all of them would survive...