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Thanks! I did not realize the eggs did that. There is not much information on chicks hatching the natural way. More info on incubators only.

My hen has been sitting on 7 eggs. 5 of them should start hatching in a day or two. Four days after she started sitting on her eggs, my other two hens laid their eggs in her pile of eggs. I’m concerned that once her original eggs start hatching she won’t continue to sit on the last two eggs for...

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How do you check skin turgor on a chicken? Where is the best location to find skin?

Love this article! I let my chickens in my garden once in a while. They love Broccoli leaves, which is fine because my plants are huge and they only get the bottom leaves. I try to watch them to be sure they are not eating the blooms of the pea plants or anything like that. They don't bother...

What is this Fermenting you are talking about?

I had my rooster and a leghorn hen taken by a hawk or owl, my daughter came and asked for all of the leghorns eggs I had left. 5 were in the refrigerator and one was on the counter for a few days because I found it outside the nesting box under a plant and did not know how long it was there...

When we arrived home this afternoon two of my chickens were missing. Looking around I found several areas of white feathers in front yard along with her apron in the driveway. The Rooster was also missing, I found his feathers in the backyard. The other three hens were fine. They free range in...

They started laying end of October. The hens will be a year old next month.

The yolk was covered in blood, the white of the egg was soaked into the bedding. The yolk was intact until I stabbed it with a stick to assess what it was!

I really do not know who laid it, it was not in the nesting box but with their poop. Sadly I did not take a picture.

I started raising my chicks last May 2017. I have one Leghorn Rooster, one Leghorn hen and 3 Rode Island Red Hens. Today is the first time I found an shell-less egg. The egg I found does not fit any description found on the internet. It was not intact, not rubber, not soft. At first I...