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    Dreamed my chickens laid eggs

    Good luck with your hens, sounds like you'll see an egg any day!! This might be a fun side note - My flock is a fixture in my dreams all the time! Often when I dream about my chickens, they are in wild places that I wouldn't expect them to be (like in a dusty, run-down room in my barn that...
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    Incubating Shell-less Eggs

    The others hatched fine. There was a brooder malfunction while I was away on thanksgiving and I lost all but two, but those two are still alive and well!
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    Incubating Shell-less Eggs

    This experiment was basically doomed from the beginning. When I put the egg in, it was starting to harden on one side and dehydrate. By day 2 of incubation, it was hard as a rock and had solidified. On day 5, when I usually candle my eggs, I noticed the membrane was split open and the yolk was...
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    Hey there everyone! If anyone has a flock of meat birds they need processed and you don't want to trek out of state, you can get your birds processed right here in Springfield! Impoco's Poultry Market in Springfield offers custom slaughter services for $5 a chicken, $7 a duck, and $10 a turkey...
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    Any bird butchers in western MA?

    I realize this thread is basically dead, but I (My family) own a poultry slaughter house in Springfield. When this was initially posted we were located in Feeding Hills but have since moved. We sell all types of poultry, live and dressed, as well as offering custom slaughter services. We are...
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    Hatching Double Yolk Eggs!!!???

    I want to know what happened! I had a few double-yolkers in my last batch I incubated but they weren't fertile... Didn't even know they were like that until I candled and saw two yolks....
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    Incubating Shell-less Eggs

    Pathfinders - This is just an experiment really, I have a a clutch of regular eggs going in along with this one Tuesday. MuranoFarms - Good point, although I haven't had much issue with humidity and chick development until the lockdown phase. I could just be lucky though. Do you melt the wax...
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    Incubating Shell-less Eggs

    The other day I walked into the coop and saw a couple of lumps sitting where a few of my hens are known to randomly lay eggs. At first I thought it was poop but when I looked closer, it was really two shell-less eggs. One was broken and the yolk was spilled out, but the other was still intact. I...
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    Rat and other predator proofing

    For the winter, I moved my flock into a smaller room in the barn with a wood stove in it. Because I lost many chicks to rats, possums, raccoons, etc. I tried to go overboard on security. I have a grated door covered in a tarp with a wooden board on one side and a metal panel on the other...
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    Cochin, Orpington, or anything else?

    Thanks, thats what I thought. I was checking out another website's list of breeds and a few of their orpington pictures looked just like my rooster there. The pictures of their Javas looked like my hen too, but my hen has feathers on her feet and Javas (as far as I know) don't.
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    Cochin, Orpington, or anything else?

    well...what do you guys think?
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    Chicks hitting puberty

    Im not too sure about roosters, but i know hens start laying anywhere between 6 months and a year old. My leghorn rooster started crowing at about 4 or 5 months, but i dont know if he became sexually active then. He definately is now tho haahah
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    Set 50 eggs last night...lets see what develops

    quintinp I have some Rhode island reds, and barred rock hens in the same coop at the moment, and want 12/19/2011 3:34 pm to hatch some barred reds so bad. This is the first winter I have been getting eggs, I just recently changed to a different feed, and I am never going back. Feed makes a...
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    Set 50 eggs last night...lets see what develops

    Another incubator malfunction killed the last 3 on day 18. Luckily, the leghorn started laying again. I'll probably just rename this blog. Also, due to my lack of success with hatching chicks ill try hatching small ammounts of eggs.
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    Set 50 eggs last night...lets see what develops

    Had an incubator malfunction. 3 eggs left. I HOPE THEY MAKE IT!
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