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    Has anyone made a vest for a chicken?

    Quote: LOL! Sounds good!
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    Has anyone made a vest for a chicken?

    Here is a pic of one of the vests I made my girls.
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    Large hard gizzard

    Quote: Thanks for the link! I'm sure it was the gizzard now. I guess they were just so hungry they picked everything off the ground that wasn't 'glued' down and it just couldn't digest. I feel better knowing it probable wasn't some sickness! With the next group we do next week, I'll be sure to...
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    Large hard gizzard

    No, we didn't cut them open. Didn't think to do that. They were in the same pen that we always put the others in before processing them. I really don't know the insides much. Never eatten any of those parts. When I gut them, I just usually pull everything out in one lump and don't look at it...
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    Large hard gizzard

    We have processed several meat chickens before. Some of the ones we did today, however seemed to have large, rock hard gizzards (inside - not the crop). At first I thought it was the liver but we think it was the gizzard instead. We usually cage them the night before with only water and haven't...
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    Do roosters pray?

    Quote: VERY MUCH!
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    Do roosters pray?

    Quote: . LOL! Quote: He does that sometimes too, but at these times, he is very quite and acts like he wants to be left alone for a few minutes.
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    Do roosters pray?

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    Do roosters pray?

    I have noticed that about 1-2 times per day, both our roosters (at different times) will go into the chicken house, face the wall or corner, kneel down then bow its head. . He will stay like this for about 5 minutes than come out, unless there is a disturbance for which he will come out...
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    Help. Chicken with huge swollen red butt

    Everything on here has to do with adult chickens. Does anyone know what a red swollen doughnut shaped thing below the vent of a chick that's only about 2-3 months old. It's chirping a lot and wants to be held unlike the other little ones. Is this most likely an individual thing, or could it have...
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    Anyone want to hatch out a twin egg along with others???

    I was just wondering if there could be two in one and this post tells me it can happen. We had a girl that just hatched some eggs. A week ago I moved her and eggs to a private nest to keep the other girls from stealing her eggs. I moved 9 eggs with her. When she was done, there was one egg that...
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    Foam from hatching chick egg

    Thanks for the post, but all the eggs were about the same size and laid within just 2-3 days of each other. It's about 36 hours old now and seems to be fine. I just thought it was wierd and wondered how to prevent it next time since it looked like it could sufficate in the shell.
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    Foam from hatching chick egg

    Thanks. I did open the shell a tiny bit because I was affraid of that, but my hatch rate is around 80% and healthy so I didn't understand why this one was like that.
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    Foam from hatching chick egg

    I couldn't find this in any of the other topics. I am hatching a batch now and have had only had two issues. One pecked a hole that had some blood then died and one that I saw foam (just a small amount) coming from the openings of the shell. It hatched on its own like the others, but I had to...
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    Chick just hatched, has hanging ball from belly, now is bleeding.

    I used incubator for first time about two months ago (a still air). Follow the directions, watched it closely to control temp and water, but only had 6 hatch out of about 22 and they didn't hatch until around the 25th - 26th day! Only one survived. One had the same thing happen. As the sac...
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