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  1. Farmer In Training

    Broody hen started killing chicks

    I am so so sad and confused. Last night, my broody hen hatched 9 beautiful chicks and was doing everything right. No lethargic chicks; everything was great. Went to go feed her this morning and there were five laying there bloody and dead (clearly pecked in the head) but the other 4 she was very...
  2. Farmer In Training

    What do I do if my duckling has a crooked neck?!

    hey all! This is just in case someone ever looks this up on google. Hi. I recently went through a long journey with a little duckling named twister. His neck had developed wrong and it was curved. If you have a duckling like this and need some advice, I’m answering some questions I had that I...
  3. Farmer In Training

    HELP

    Okay. So to make a long story short my incubator is awful but I wanted to let the remaining chicks develop fully to hatch and only one hatched and it fell under the hatching pad i don’t even know how so I had to unscrew the hatching pad and save it and there are other eggs that look like they...
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    Need incubator help!!

    Hey everyone! So, here is the story. I have had a Magicfly incubator for awhile now and have hatched many chicks from it and normally get 95-100 percent hatch rate each time, (SUCH a good incubator) but I decided I wanted something bigger so I ordered a bigger incubator off of amazon with okay...
  5. Farmer In Training

    Best place or ways to get hatching eggs?

    hey y’all! So I have ninety six chickens and I love incubating so I normally just incubate my own eggs, but I want to start branching out and getting some more rarer breeds. Does anyone know good places to get hatching eggs that are also on the cheap side? They would need to be Online and able...
  6. Farmer In Training

    My chickens are loosing their feathers

    ugh.. okay. So we have around 35 to 40 chickens, in three seperate coops. In one of the coops, (we call it the mixed breed coop) we have mixed breeds with 20 chickens in there and two roosters. (The roosters never really fight. ) Recently, the chickens are loosing their feathers and it is not...
  7. Farmer In Training

    NEED GOAT HELP(please)

    HELLO! I know that this website is for chickens , but we don't know what to do. One of our baby goats has been stepped on by a horse, and it's leg is broken. We have been bottle feeeding it for four days now and it is not accepting the bottle very well. It's leg we think is either minor sprained...
  8. Farmer In Training

    HELP!

    So this is my second tim incubating eggs and last time everything went very well and to my surprise all hatched. This time, everything is going good except one of my Silkie chicks hatched and walked fine but needed to dry in incubator so I went to run errands and when I came back four hours...
  9. Farmer In Training

    Introducing problem

    So I need some advice from the experts. I have 3- 3 month old polish chickens I would like to put with my main flock. However, I don't know if they will pick on them. I have introduced chickens to my flock before, and they are very nice. They have always acted like they have always been there...
  10. Farmer In Training

    Cracked egg in incubator?

    Okay so I have a deep love for animals. SO, when I was storing eggs for my incubator and only needed one more, The one I got had a teeny tiny crack on the very top pointy end. I didn't know what to do, however, since it was SO small, I decided to roll with it and popped them all in. Do you think...
  11. Farmer In Training

    ROOSTER HELP NEEDED NOW!

    Okay so, I have this silkie hen and this silkie serama rooster. I just bought the silkie hen, and she is separated from my other large chicken flock and by herself. She just started laying eggs and stays in the brooder box with no heat lamp but it moved every evening to the duck pen right...
  12. Farmer In Training

    Wing Sexing????

    Hello! Soon expecting some chicks to sell, and I would like to have them pre-sexed (I will mention there is no 100% guarentee), But I have only have little knowledge on how to wing sex. Please help!!!!! :)
  13. Farmer In Training

    Dry Hatch Or Normal Hatch?

    Dry Hatch Or Normal Hatch?????? *HELP!* Okay. So I have heard a lot about hatching and incubating, and I am going to start incubating my own chickens eggs after doing a fertile test with five and seeing that all five are fertile. Anyways, I have a magicfly mini with automatic turner, (It can...
  14. Farmer In Training

    Hi!

    Hey there! I'm farmer in training, meaning I still have so much to learn about chickens but I would consider myself to be intermediate. :) I have eighteen 5-8 month chickens with three roosters ( two bantee one beautiful barahma ) and fifteen mixed hens. ( all purebred tough. ) I have some...
  15. Farmer In Training

    incubation advice

    Hello! Just joined and I am so thrilled!!! Anyways, I have 18 chickens, (three being roosters) And we have one batch of 8 that is around 7 or 8 months and then we have a 5 month batch of ten. I have a incubator coming and have researched like crazy about it and so I now know all the details (...
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