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    Bantam rooster harmony

    You know what, you may have just solved a little riddle of mine! I'm usually the one to take care of our chickens, and my little bantam rooster has never tried to challenge me in any way. However, once in awhile my brother or dad will let the chickens out for me. They both get attacked by the...
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    Bantam rooster harmony

    I know what you mean, about the "little man syndrome"! I have 2 dozen hens right now, and 4 roosters. 3 of the 4 roosters are large Chanteclers, and most of the hens are large as well. The last rooster is a pretty little guy, I was told he was a bantam/brahma mix when I got them (which was a...
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    Hen ate a dime and many rocks, need advice.

    Yep, I noticed the cards too. The picture was pretty certainly taken at the vet's office on New Year's Eve. I guess whether the date is set wrong on the x-ray (or the number possibly represents something other than the date the x-ray was taken), or if the chicken's owner went back to the vet's...
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    Hen ate a dime and many rocks, need advice.

    Odd, but if you look at the bottom-right corner of the computer, it shows 12/31/2018 as the current date at the time the picture was taken. Not sure what the other number means!
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    Big bubble on chick's neck!!!

    Maybe it does have to do with the incubator somehow. I got a new incubator, and this is the second batch I've done with only 3 or 4 out of about 40 eggs hatching! There definitely seems to be something wrong with the temperature (some eggs seem much colder than others when we candle), so maybe...
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    Big bubble on chick's neck!!!

    Thanks for your reply. He was 1-2 days late, we took him out of the incubator about eight hours after we noticed he had hatched (we just noticed him when we woke up this morning), because he some kind of green/yellowy/white stuff stuck to his bum and some shell too. I thought it might be...
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    Big bubble on chick's neck!!!

    I'm really worried because my chick just hatched from my incubator, but he has a really weird, big bubble thing around his neck, mostly on one side and around the back. It feels like a water bubble or maybe just air to me, I can't tell. The skin is also sort of red around it too. Any idea...
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    Does my new incubator have enough ventilation?

    The humidity dropped to 45% a few hours after writing this, so I guess I spoke too soon! I put a little bit of water back in, and hopefully with some trial and error I'll be able to steady it out. I'm still wondering about the ventilation, though. I haven't really seen a brand name on the...
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    Does my new incubator have enough ventilation?

    Hi! I bought a forced-air incubator online, and started running it to see how it went before I put any eggs in. I added a half a cup or so of water to the channels at the bottom, but the humidity showed around 75%. So I got a lot of it back out, and it still read 70%...after completely...
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    Questions about ex-battery hens!

    Okay, I'll try and separate them. Would two groups be enough? It would be really difficult to do more than that, with my setup. I don't think they all came from one pen, but possibly two....the whites and browns seem to separate into little groups. Maybe the different colors came from...
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    Questions about ex-battery hens!

    Thanks for all of your replies!! I had no idea it was such a danger. I wish I had seen your replies last night, I would have stayed up and tried to teach them to roost! I'll do that tonight. I'm on it for the re-homing too. They all survived the night, anyways, and they're looking just...
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    Questions about ex-battery hens!

    I forgot to ask another question. I just got back from checking on the girls, and they were all piled on top of one another in a small extension of the coop - about 3' by 6'. For 80 chickens!! So we shooed them all into the main coop area, and added a temporary board to keep them there, but lo...
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    Questions about ex-battery hens!

    Hi! I just brought home a bunch of "rescue chickens" from a factory....80 to be exact! Basically, the factory keeps them around to lay for about a year, but when their production starts to drop slightly, they are called "spent hens" and gotten rid of (killed and usually used for oil or pet...
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    Wild pheasant likes the chickens??

    Sorry I haven't posted in awhile! Life's been busy...two of my new hens turned out to have bumblefoot, and I'm trying to figure out what to do/get up the courage to take care of it! The pheasant is still here nearly all of the time. He has been eating the duck food I put out for him, and...
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    Wild pheasant likes the chickens??

    You're right, that would be awful! I haven't really been trying to tame him, per se, (except for leaving food out for him...) but he has been getting more comfortable around us. Still scared if we move toward him, but a huge difference from most wild pheasants. He's been hanging around our...
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