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    What is this in my egg????

    I found this inside of a hard boiled egg. What is it?? It's got a hardish outer shell and the inside is red. In my 10+ years of raising chickens I have never seen this before. Any thoughts? pen shown for size reference...
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    hen with black spots on comb

    frostbite is typically on the tips of the comb. Could be Avian pox - I just went through this. Black spots, a little bit crusty typically, show up all over the comb. If that's what it is it will generally spread through the whole flock. It isn't typically deadly, but mine stopped laying...
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    possums

    I have one that is stealing eggs every night. I caught him in the act and my chickens weren't even scared of him!! He was walking up the ramp to go back outside and there were no warnings from the chickens or the rooster. I was wondering why not a single one of my 12 hens in that coop hadn't...
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    HELP!! What is wrong with my chicks??? (Pic included)

    Well I went back outside to check on the chickens and upon further inspection it is absolutely dry pox. Several of the other coops are starting to show signs. I suppose the babies just aren't able to fight it off as well. I will be swabbing the lesions with iodine and put them on antibiotics...
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    HELP!! What is wrong with my chicks??? (Pic included)

    That's the thing - my little bantam cochin hatched them from a polish pair I've had forever! All my other chickens are in good health, the cochin who is in there with them is in good health. There were 3 that hatched, 1 I had to cull he was so sick and clearly miserable. I hatched another...
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    HELP!! What is wrong with my chicks??? (Pic included)

    Is this avian pox? They are all getting growths on their beaks. There is a slight respiratory issue also but are all eating and drinking normally. One got it in his eye so badly I had to cull him I need to know what this is and if I can help them!!!
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    chickens and mating behavior

    No, she's not laying yet. My polish always seem to take FOREVER to lay. But excellent idea when she does start! I certainly tend to agree that they wouldn't know any better (especially since I've seen siblings raised together have no problem) but it is just so bizarre that I never see him try...
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    What do you RAISE or Hatching?? Shout out to Everyone!

    ETA ack!!! I forgot my polish!! let's see... CHICKENS: 12 Easter Eggers 4 Cuckoo Marans 3 Black Copper Marans 6 White Leghorns 2 Black Australorp 2 Bantam Cochin 1 Bantam mixed-breed 4 Golden Laced Polish NOT CHICKENS: 5 Dogs 7 Sheep 3 Llamas (the baby was just born on Nov. 1st!!) 1 barn...
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    chickens and mating behavior

    OK, this is may be a strange question, but I had a broody cochin hen in with a bantam mixed-breed roo and I put some eggs under the cochin. She hatched one single golden laced polish chick. I kept the three of them together and the roo has always been great. Now the polish chick has grown...
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    Food and water in coop or run or both?

    I feed inside and water outside for 3 seasons. Of course, in the winter I bring everything inside because that's where the electrical outlets are for their heated waterers, but they end up spilling water and I spend a lot more time cleaning out wet shavings all winter!
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    Do roosters require companionship?

    I had a bantam rooster whose hen got killed by a predator. He lived alone for a couple of months before I found him another suitable hen. I though he was pretty happy as a bachelor, he still strutted around and appeared fine but let me tell you when I brought him his new hen he positively...
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    Best winter layers... cast your vote

    Leghorns. Mine were champs all winter long - they are 1/day layers, each one of them. They never miss a day! You do have to be careful for frostbite, though. No lights for them last year. (my other breeds all had lights on a timer so can't say for sure how they would have done without that).
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    How to train my Border Collie to herd my chickens

    I have border collies (who are all trained on sheep at varying levels). My dogs will not herd ANYTHING except sheep. I had my sheep in with some goats at one point and the funniest thing - my dog went in and carefully herded the sheep out of the group of goats excluding EVERY SINGLE GOAT from...
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    Chicks wont roost!

    I hatched some chicks from a broody rather than an incubator for the first time and the whole thing has been fascinating! I found that the broody mama made sure those chicks roosted pretty early, I happened to be there as she taught them - she flew up to the roost, back down for encouragement...
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    Well.. now i'm a bit sad :(

    I wouldn't worry about it too much. I was hatching some eggs recently and a bunch of the babies had hatched with no more pips so I opened it up, took the chicks out and put the cover back on. Well, I got busy taking care of the chicks and hadn't turned the incubator off yet and decided I'd...
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