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    Carrying a Chicken

    I looked a couple of threads on carrying a chicken and did not see the same way that I do it. I point the chicken forward and put my hand under the outside wing so that my fingers extend across and over the keel with my thumb, straight, near where the wing attaches to the chickens body...
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    Double Yolks

    I candled 3 of them. One might have had 2 chicks developing. The others looked normal.
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    Double Yolks

    Here are the eggs.
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    Double Yolks

    I am going to leave them in the incubator. I will candle in a couple of days and post some pictures if I can get some good photos.
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    Double Yolks

    The same hen is laying the double yolks. All my hens are less than 7 months old so their eggs are still a bit small. I do have 1 hen that is 16 months old so I really did not think much of the size other that to think they were fairly large.
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    Double Yolks

    Hatch day is August 9.
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    Double Yolks

    Mrs. CalgaryFarmer: What would you like for breakfast? Mr. CalgaryFarmer: An egg sandwich would be nice sweetheart. (Ok. I embellished that last part.) Mrs. CalgaryFarmer: Those large eggs have double yolks. Let me try another. Yah. They seem to all have double yolks. Mr. CalgaryFarmer...
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    Your Experience Keeping a House Chicken

    Here are a couple of threads on potty training a chicken. How To Potty Train Your Chicken Potty Training Chickens, How-to! Has anyone had any luck with these techniques?
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    Parrot Beak / Underbite Chicken

    This may be better. Try it first. I did try but the file I used was probably the wrong type.
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    Parrot Beak / Underbite Chicken

    I also wrapped him in a towel to hold his wings and feet. He was quite patient through the whole thing.
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    Parrot Beak / Underbite Chicken

    I used these. Good nail clippers would provably work well. If you trim the bottom, trim from the point and back along the edge of the beak on both sides and then trim the front. Because of the shape of the beak, I would not trim the across the front of the beak first. I found you could not...
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    Parrot Beak / Underbite Chicken

    Here is mine. Link
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    Underbite

    Here is an update. The first photo shows the beak before I cut it down again. It did bleed again. This is a few days later. I wondered how well he was eating, but as you can see he is munching on grass seeds.
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    Who will take the bait?

    I will reduce to 12 and check on her to see what she is covering.
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