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    Gender of 10 week old chicks?

    Rooster Rooster Hen. Top to bottom, If I had to guess.
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    swollen rim around chicken eye on one side only - thoughts?

    Any progress or updates on your chicken? I have the exact same swollen eye in several of my birds and am starting them on sulmet. Vetrx has done nothing for them and sulmet is my next try. They have no other symptoms, no smell, fluid discharge, weezing or sneezing, Just swollen around the...
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    9 eggs...Day 9...only two embryos moving

    Go to the learning center and look up the egg candeling pics, looking for an egg with a blood ring. Smell the eggs and if none smell rotten, don't give up quite yet. I had 6 eggs I marked out of 30 in my incubator this spring because I couldn't tell if there was life in them or not. They all...
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    Guts

    I bury mine in the garden compost pile with the chicken poop that aquires from having 30 to 55 little and big feathered rodents running around on my property. About 1.5 to 2 feet down will take care of any stench that may happen. I spread the compost from last summers killings in the garden this...
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Smell the egg, if it is bad, you will then know for sure, but with seepage, it isn't likely to be a viable egg.
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    What is this floating thing inside egg?

    Glad it worked out, Nice looking chick.
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    Post your Chick Pictures Here!!!

    Above, first born chick from my incubator at 5 days old. Mutt chicks from my sexlink chickens. Day 2, I Can not believe the colors I got from my sexlink chickens, I have a red sexlink rooster, 6 red hens. 5 black sexlink hens and 3 sagita hens. I cant wait to see how they look grown up. I set...
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    so this random guy offered me his whiskey mash?

    I brew beer and the hens get all the barley after brewing, but before fermentation. I freeze it in serving sized bags and just take some out a day in advance to thaw. I use it as a treat with their layer mash and they love it; If I could fine a source of whisky mash I'd jump on the chance for...
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    Candling Amateur needs advice, PLEASE!

    I started 35 eggs 10 days ago and on day 4 I could see 2 that had not even started, cracked them and was right. On day 7 I could see 1 with a blood ring, and 6 That I could see no movement in but could see movement and life in the rest. On day 8 one of the six was dead and I could see movement...
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    A Chick's View from Inside the Shell

    Poor thing was in there for 55 days...
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    What is this floating thing inside egg?

    If the egg is less than a couple days old and was taken off the nest right after if was laid, then it is probabaly a meat spot. A spec of blood in the egg from when it was developed inside the hen. The big grocery egg companys candle their eggs to make sure they have none of these in their eggs...
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    Rooster is attacking and has exiled a hen

    Rooster needs a new home, like the crock pot.
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    Monster sized egg!

    One of my Black Sex links has been laying huge eggs, I have been getting one every couple days for the past 3 months. They have all been around 3.5 oz. This is the biggest one to date, 4.25 oz., 120.5 grams. These are usually double yolks, but not always. What have you or others here had for...
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    Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."

    When one is way to many but 30 is not enough...
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    are my eggs still good?was

    Give them the float test. Toss any that float in water and crack the rest in a glass or bowl before adding to the frypan or recipes.
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