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    Tired, apathetic, somewhat pale hen

    Hey there! As Im clueless I thought maybe you have another idea what's going on or what I might oversea: One of our hens seems to be not very well. She is generally shy and pretty anxious and likes to keep a little distance to most of the other chicken, but lately she is just laying in the...
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    Hawks

    Hey! We live in a very rural area area too. To prevent the hawk we stretched a net all over where the chickens are - which isn't the prettiest, yet at leas it helps a bit. We also got 2 guineas - thanks to them, I noticed a recent hawk attach where he found a small hole in the net and attacked...
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    Premature Rooster?

    Hey there! One of our Roosters started having sex with the hens recently, yet he is only 12 1/2 weeks old. I have never seen that happening so fast, usually they tend to get older before they try such things. Yesterday, I have seen him 3 times in action, which made me wonder whether such an...
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    Young rooster got attacked by hawk (trachea injured)

    He survived the night yet he is very quiet. I gave him another dose of painkillers in the morning. He drank a little and also ate a tiny bit (he does when I hold it near his head and talk to him). He also stretched a little. He feels pretty hot though and there was a bit of blood in his poop.
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    Young rooster got attacked by hawk (trachea injured)

    Thank you all for your words and your advice! Shadrach, thank you for sharing the article, that's very helpful as I have to give him the painkillers the vet gave me tomorrow morning again! I attach a picture of him. Thanks to the guinea fowls Ive been there pretty early. The silver part under...
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    Young rooster got attacked by hawk (trachea injured)

    Hey! Today I heard our guinea fowls making extremely loud and panicked noise from the chicken place. We have chickens, who walk along with the guineas, and chicks (9 Weeks), who have a different barn and see the chicken through a fence at the moment. As I heard the noise I started running to the...
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    Adding some veggies?

    I think that's mainly for calcium :)
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    Adding some veggies?

    Hey :) I feed mine a mix of cooked, mashed egg with a little bit of the shell finely cracked over, some fine cut rolled oats and finely cut stinging nettle. I also cut in some chives and some very fine grated carrots. Then I drizzle some dried oregano over. They also enjoy some fine cut...
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    Chickens are cracking the bottom side of the egg

    Thank you all for your kind answers! MGG, I have seen your comment too late, but I have good news: All of them hatched, the first yesterday around midnight, the last one today around 3 p.m. My incubator has a window to the side so that i could see that one egg was not doing any process at all...
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    Chickens are cracking the bottom side of the egg

    Hey! Thank you for your reply, that really calms me down a little since it's on the wide end of the egg. I hope they will make it through .. So 24 hours is not an unusual length?
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    Chickens are cracking the bottom side of the egg

    Hey there! I hope I'm doing everything right, as I'm just joining this forum with already having a question. If I make any mistake please inform me and I will gladly take your advice :). I started incubating eggs on 21th of March. Yesterday, around 10 pm, the first one started to crack the...
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