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    Blackhead and Prolapse

    I've screwed up. I have a small flock and let a hen hatch babies so we've got about 30 chickens now. I'd like to get rid of some, but no takers. I've also had a pair of turkeys for about 2 years and got my first poults via an incubator this year and some other from another bloodline from a...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Has anyone had luck giving a broody hen different aged chicks? My hen hatched 2 turkey eggs for me yesterday and today a friend brought over 4 turkey poults that are 1-2 weeks old. My hen started making distressed noises when I approached with the crying poults and immediately started pushing...
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    When to help an egg hatch?

    For anyone reading this later, we believe the wet paper towel saved the poult. After an hour, the soft inner shell was much more translucent and the baby was moving more. This morning, it was all the way out and looking great. I believe the other babies had pipped for too long and dried out.
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    When can I integrate chicks with poults.

    My chickens were about 4 months when I got 2 8 week old turkeys. I kept the turkeys in a dog kennel inside the coop for a while before letting them out with each other and never had a problem. Jake, my male turkey, is the alpha and will chase the rooster off when he gets annoying, but he's our...
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    When to help an egg hatch?

    My poor Jenny has had terrible luck with eggs. She always goes away from the coop to nest and something gets her eggs. This time, our neighbor has 2 dogs that she made friends with and they've been guarding her nest. She started with 11 and I put 3 of the eggs under a broody hen as our backup...
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    Help! I don't think external intestines are normal...

    Thank you. My husband tried to make me feel better and said that he really feels like if I stepped on her she'd be dead. His theory is that squeeze out like that, I'd have to stepped on her head and her head is fine. I'm kind of leaning towards her being born like that since I never saw her...
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    Help! I don't think external intestines are normal...

    I've only had chickens for 2 years and we just let 2 broody girls sit on eggs. I had 2 eggs hatch on Saturday and one mama is taking care of those. I put the eggs she abandoned under the other mama and one started a pip hole last night but didn't make it out until this afternoon. 2 others...
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    Egg Temperature

    I collect eggs daily and like to keep them room temperature. My daughter's babysitter put the eggs in the fridge and I just now realized it, it's been about 4 days. We're about to go on a 14 hour road trip to visit family and I wanted to take the eggs. Can they go back to room temperature? They...
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    Mystery Chick

    Here's the best I could grab off his FB site for now.
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    Mystery Chick

    It's from a breeders photos. Let me see if I can get him to send another one. He hatched a bunch of eggs and can't remember what they all were.
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    Mystery Chick

    Does anyone have a guess at what kind of chick this is?
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    What color Crested Polish is this?

    Awesome! That's the exact one I wanted, but he said they were out of stock and so it must be fate that it got slipped in the order. I wonder what her chicks will look like mixed with my white crested blue roo?
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    Best way to repurpose this into a coop?

    Thanks for all your advice. We ended up just opting for a sterilite tote as a brooder and now all the flock is outside free ranging and happy as can be! Chicken math got me and we ended up with 8 at first, then got 2 turkeys and 6 more chicks this week. I'm so glad we built a big coop after all!
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    What color Crested Polish is this?

    I got this on a whim today with my other pullets because I wanted my crested blue polish roo to have a hen. But she was accidentally shipped with the guy's order and we have no clue what she'll grow up to be. Any ideas?
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    Best way to repurpose this into a coop?

    We are brand new to chickens and will be getting 6 pullets this weekend. We will eventually build a 'real' coop, but we need to figure out exactly what we need so are starting small and I'd like to repurpose an armoire initially. Our main area is a 13' x 12' slab attached to the garage. We...
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