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    Float Testing, Checking Egg Viability For Late Or Overdue Hatching

    Hello! I just did this float test on a chicken egg that is on day 26. It's siblings have hatched. The egg floated about 10-15% out of the water, the size of the air cell. I waited and NO rockin n rollin? So my egg is viable with a full term chick but possibly not alive?? If not moving in the...
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    Float Testing, Checking Egg Viability For Late Or Overdue Hatching

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    3 day old chick will not straighten legs

    This is exactly what is going on with her!!! Just found this info: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chick-with-slipped-tendon-perosis-treated-sucessfully.1092175/ She will NOT bend her hock and I've been scared to. I just bent her leg at the hock and stretched her leg out behind her...
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    3 day old chick will not straighten legs

    Thanks for responding. Unfortunately I cannot upload to youtube as I live in Baja Mexico and I have very limited Internet. We just have Satellite Internet and buy GBs. I can take a video of her with my phone and attach I think? I took her hobble off and her legs are in and not sprawled out to...
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    3 day old chick will not straighten legs

    I have a 3 day old chick that will not straighten her legs or even try to stand. I have hobbled her legs because they were out to her side. I have done daily physical therapy with her by slowly moving her legs into a straight position but on her own she does not try to bend at the hock or...
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    Young hens laying rubber shelled eggs from roost at night??

    A couple of mornings I have gone out early to the chicken pen/coop and have found broken eggs, rubbery shells, that look to be laid during the night from roosting poles?? Of course a few of my hens go after the egg to eat the yolk and white parts. I scooped them up as quick as possible. My hens...
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    Chicks from Baja Mexico!

    t Thank you!!
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    Chicks from Baja Mexico!

    Thanks for your response....poor quality?? I was thinking more of a mix with something RIR...Once they get a bit bigger I will repost photos...their feathers are so pretty with the mix they are!
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    Post Your Game Cam Pics Here!!!

    All great info, thank you! We too have concrete poured at the door into pen. Our friends just emailed us earlier and said they have electric wire they are bringing with them for us. I'm happy about that. We framed in the roof with 2X4s and plywood then put roofing on the top so it's pretty...
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    Post Your Game Cam Pics Here!!!

    We have buried chain link all the way around the pen and also on the bottom of the pen. We piled with rocks and then covered with dirt. Coyotes dug one night, hit the rocks, stopped digging and left. Hoping this will continue to discourage them.
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    Chicks from Baja Mexico!

    I purchased 12 chicks from a small feed store as we were traveling south of the border to our casa. I am not sure what breed they are. The guy I purchased them from said they are all pullets (pollitas)! I probably will be lucky if they all indeed are pollitas. When I purchased them I think they...
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    Mama died but was laying on two eggs!

    Mama Chicken was laying on two eggs. She passed away so I grabbed the eggs and put them in my incubator. I had no idea how long she had been laying on the eggs as it was a surprise to us she was even laying on eggs. A week later one egg hatched on Labor Day but the other one hasn't. I did candle...
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    How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

    I'm definitely a backyarder!! I haven't a clue if my neighborhood allows chickens but in our HOA "rules" it says nothing about not being able to have chickens. Only mentions "no hooves" LOL I'm not asking! I have all hens-6 NO Rooster, nobody has noticed.
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    Do ducks eat live fish?

    I get my mallards minnows at our local bait store. They are $1.00 per dozen and they usually give me more as they don't really count. Plus they love the idea I'm getting minnows for my ducks so they are very generous
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    My mallards beat up by Pekins!

    Thanks for the reply! Three ducks per drake! OK, well I just might try and do that. I think I'm going to take my mallards to the lake each day for an hour or two so they can get used to it. Hopefully if the Pekins keep showing up, which I'm sure they will, eventually they will leave my babies...
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