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    5 week old chick has gaping hole in neck from pecking injury

    She has been eating and drinking but not as much yesterday and today. There are 7 total chicks in her group. I'm not sure how to keep her from being shunned when she returns.
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    5 week old chick with gaping hole in neck from pecking injury-need advice

    I have a Russian Orloff pullet age 5 weeks that was pecked by her mama hen when she stopped brooding. The injury looks really bad, but she seems to be in good spirits. The best I could do was separate her and clean the wound with pierced ear solution (benzalkonium chloride). I wish I could...
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    5 week old chick has gaping hole in neck from pecking injury

    I have a Russian Orloff pullet age 5 weeks that was pecked by her mama hen when she stopped brooding. The injury looks really bad, but she seems to be in good spirits. The best I could do was separate her and clean the wound with pierced ear solution (benzalkonium chloride). I wish I could...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    The two black ones were ones she hatched. The three light ones are legbars.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I did it! I found a little one acre farm near me with just hatched chicks. I bought 3 and brought them home to my broody. I swapped one egg she was sitting on for a chick. When she seemed ok with that one and it started listening to her call it, I introduced the next one. All the rest of the...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    So if I don't get more than 2 chicks from this batch, is there a time window where she will accept other chicks? I could order some....
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    That's what 4 of them look like. Just no signs of life. No rocking, no peeping.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I just checked. One had broken and there was no signs of development. Of the 5 that I candled, 1 had no development. So the other 4 are dark and I can't see anything but a little light on one end. Not sure what I should see.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    My Golden Laced Wyandotte went broody last year in May and hatched 3 chicks. This year, I was disappointed when May came and went with no broody hen. However, she DID go broody in August!! I just happened to have a carton of fertile eggs from the local farm that I put under her. She started...
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    Janoel Incubator

    I calibrated mine with both digital weather thermometers and kitchen thermometers. The one I found most accurate was a classic red liquid thermometer. It was intended to be used for keeping brooders at a safe temperature. It had a line for 99.7 degrees so I could tell when it was just right...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I have my first broody hen! She is sharing a coop with one other hen. She has been very dedicated to staying on the nest. Tomorrow will be day 7. I'm so excited! I'm tempted to candle one at least to be sure they are developing. Do Golden Laced Wyandottes make good mothers? I am...
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    Oops I created an issue, now my roosters are fighting

    Ok, here's the situation: I have 2 coops. For a while, I had 2 roosters and 7 hens in one coop and 1 rooster and 9 hens in the other. The other day, a predator attacked while the chickens were free ranging on our 2 acres. We lost 1 rooster and 2 hens. The lost rooster was from the 2nd coop...
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    Rigor mortis

    They weren't bred for meat so they are on the light side. I incubated 9 eggs from my americauna hen when she was killed by a hawk. She was my only green egg layer. The babies are crossed with a barred rock. I know that sometimes a cross will result in a jumbo bird that grows fast. Not these. We...
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    Rigor mortis

    Another question: our chickens were 15 weeks old and only 2.75 pounds after cleaning. I kept waiting for them to get bigger. Does age make them tough? T
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    Rigor mortis

    Yesterday I processed 5 chickens. 3 of them were still stiff when I put them in bags in the freezer. The other 2 had to wait in the cooler for 6 or 7 hours till I got around to plucking them. They were not stiff like the others. Does this make them more tender? I brined all of them for an hour...
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