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Emily BO is 5 years old.  She went broody twice a year for the first three years, but never hatched or raised chicks.  Now I want her to raise chicks, so I put her in with Matilda who set golf balls and is raising 5 chicks...
I have a pretty 2 1/2 year old pure Black Australorp roo, "Simon" to rehome.  Is anyone interested - Silver City area?Here he is with one of his daughters with an EE hen.  I am getting rid of him not because of...
A message from the hummingbird picture poster:We are very alarmed.  This year the hummingbirds are in the lowest numbers anyone has ever seen around here.  We have a fraction of the hummingbirds normally present in all other...
I found and wrote the BYC section on Silver City Chicken laws.  It is here:http://www.backyardchickens.com/laws/display.php?State=NM&City=Silver+City&actions=searchYou are allowed chickens as long as they are not a...
I think success, I was able to remove it layer by layer, it was very hard and dried.  Yolk was outside, white inside.  When I got to the final removal I was very very gentile, and she sucked the internals back inside her. ...
DH has her in a warm bath now - it was the only thing I could think of either.  No trace of shell, looks like all yolk.
My hen was free ranging and happy when I saw what appears to be a dried egg on her vent with intestines going into it?  It is very dried and I am afraid to cut-pull without any idea what I am doing!  She seems very well...
OK I need help here.I just tried the surgery, I cut open the bumble after numbing it, there was just a small ooze of blood.  I can not find anything to take out of the inside.  It appears to be just a sack/lump of callused...
Quote:Originally Posted by damselfish If you got that odd one from a feed store, it's likely that some customer just picked a chick up from one box and put it into the wrong box.  Not necessarily the hatchery's error...It's...
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