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    How to train your chickens…

    It’s looong. But and would cut the back right down the middle where we walk. But I’ve considered it.
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    Right because puddles are for drinking. Why step in your drinking water?
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    How to train your chickens…

    Oooh. I like this. Tonight was an encore of yesterday’s herding. I am wondering about a net…
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    How to train your chickens…

    I have a flock of 17. My garden is done for the winter and I’ve covered it with hawk netting so the girls can have a good time in the leftover plants and dirt, etc Problem is, the garden gate is a good 25 yards away from the run doors. Me running around capturing each one and carrying it to the...
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    Listless hen with bluish comb

    Found my two 2 year old ISA hunkered down in the corner of the coop. She’s super listless (not bothered by me picking her up and she usually is not a fan). Comb limp and bluish. Belly soft, vent clear, no eye or nose discharge or weird breathing. Where can I look up symptoms for a diagnosis...
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    Ew. Chickens throw up

    Needed to share with other chicken people. Chickens can barf. On you. While you try to help them. Hen is fine. I may not be. 🤢
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    Wash? Eggsplosion halfway thru brooding

    I’m already at the “dry layer of grossness “ sadly. Good news is there is no way I’ll break her broodiness. We’re taken to calling momma the Angry Pterodactyl. She’s all in.
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    Wash? Eggsplosion halfway thru brooding

    I have a broody hen under a clutch of eggs at about day 18. An egg broke ( either a quitter or a fresh egg another hen sneaked in and laid) and the developing eggs are filthy and stinky. Do I wash them?
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    Integration when look no touch

    Momma and 2 chicks are 2 weeks old. They hatched in the coop with the rest of my flock of 14, and have been separated from the flock in the same coop and run by some temporary fencing/wiring. When can I take that down?
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    21+ days

    At least 25 days ago
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    21+ days

    24 days minimum since these particular eggs in the incubator were laid.
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    21+ days

    Bump
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    21+ days

    Lolol. Yes. We have a rooster. These are eggs from a staggered hatch that we place in an incubator after the hen abandoned when the first chicks hatched. They were out from mom and into the incubator within hours. Candled and alive ten days ago. Another egg pipped then never zipped and died. 😢
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    21+ days

    How long do you hold out after day 21 for a successful hatch? How do you know to give up?
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    TWO! There are two little chicks in her nest. They look perfect. 😍 Three eggs left. It’s been 24 hours since the first hatch so I’m looking at a staggered hatch here. When should I pull those eggs to candle for progress/viability?
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