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    Squashed and pecked eggs at hatching time, what to do?

    Thanks very much for this info! I am new to chickens and had visions of a hen happily hatching a dozen eggs (perhaps with a dud or two, no abandoned or pecked-and squashed eggs). And two or three people at the farm supply store told me I could buy day-old chicks and put them under the hen at...
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    Time-lapse: From Chick to Chicken

    Loved seeing your pics! I have eight chicks growing up right now, 3 home-hatched "mutts" plus 5 store-bought (2 Easter Eggers, one Black Australorp, one Silver-laced Wyandotte, and a "mystery chick" that the Farm Supply couldn't identify for me -- it was one of the "leftover" chicks in a pen...
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    Squashed and pecked eggs at hatching time, what to do?

    My broody Buff Orp had 10 eggs in her clutch, setting since May 4. Two hatched on Wed May 25. Yesterday (26th) I took a look at remaining eggs and saw one that looked squashed as though sat on by something heavy. Late this afternoon I quickly float-tested most of the remaining eggs and most...
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    Do fertilized eggs have less cholesterol than unfertilized eggs?

    Somebody told me recently that fertilized eggs have less "bad" cholesterol than unfertilized eggs. So I went looking on the internet for information on this issue. I found an article abstract at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1342207 Here's the gist: Total fats (phospholipids) were...
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    White discharge from vent, 1 hen dead already

    Thanks for all this info and the links...will look all this up!
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    White discharge from vent, 1 hen dead already

    I have some Clotrimazole (vaginal anti-fungal cream) that I used to treat a chicken with crop trouble (gave it orally then) and I'm assuming this would work as well as Monostat...if not, let me know. Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but uh, would I give the medicine orally -- or...
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    White discharge from vent, 1 hen dead already

    A friend gave me two new hens. One stayed in the coop and lay down a lot, didn't seem to eat much (I never saw her with a normally bulging crop). I saw yellow diarrhea once, other times normal looking but rather soft poop, but she seemed to strain to poop. Lots of messy white stuff on the...
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    Diarrhea plus yellowish liquid, isolating

    This is Saturday. Last Monday when I went to "put the chickens to bed" my hen Sasha, about 3.5 years old, was standing on top of the nest box instead of with the other birds on the perch. There was fresh-looking dark squashy stool (semi-diarrhea) under her like she'd just pooped. I shooed her...
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