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    My first chick hatched naturally

    Lost two of the chicks to a predator. Possibly raccoon? The other two are doing great though. They are in with the rest of the flock now and all is well.
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    My first chick hatched naturally

    Looks like we got two new RIR and two more Giants
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    My first chick hatched naturally

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    My first chick hatched naturally

    [/IMG][/IMG] I'll try to get some better ones of the babies tomorrow. Mama was giving me the evil eye every time I came out to check on them today.
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    My first chick hatched naturally

    4 chicks now! 2 eggs broke, tiny premature babies that weren't fully developed. 2 eggs left, but they may have been laid later. I'm leaving them in the nest a while longer to see what happens.
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    My first chick hatched naturally

    Food is set out and I put the small waterer from the brooder near them for the chicks. Just checked them and 2 more have hatched!!!
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    My first chick hatched naturally

    Our little incubator broke, so we haven't hatched chicks in months. We have 38 chickens (RIR, Jersey Giants, Bantam Cochins, and a Japanese Bantam). One of our Jersey Giants fought me every time I went out to collect eggs, so finally I decided to let her have her way. She was originally sitting...
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    checking for pasty butt with many chicks

    I have 102 chicks that I just got last week. I have a pretty large brooder, so I put 1 big box and 1 small box in it and picked up each chick and the good ones went into the big box and the pasty butts went into the small one. I then let all the good ones back to run around and I cleaned and put...
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