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    Help "putting down" my chicken...

    Ive been doing more reading, I came across this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/66650/hen-about-to-pop-internal-layer-updates-posted/10 The lady drained her chickens rear with a syringe but its also been mentioned that someone just poked 3 holes in the rear and let it drain. Im...
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    Help "putting down" my chicken...

    What is the "broom" method? Ive never heard of it...
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    Help "putting down" my chicken...

    My hen really doesnt seem to be suffering at all right now, thats what makes it hard. She runs around, eats and drinks like nothing is affecting her. She even jumps up on her perch fine too. Her rear just keeps expanding more and more though so Im worried its gonna pop soon. I can try and make...
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    Help "putting down" my chicken...

    I have a RIR hen and she I believe has become an internal layer.. her rear end has swollen up so bad to the point it is starting to break and I am worried she's just going to explode and suffer a painful death. Ive been on here looking for answers before and basically Ive read there is not much...
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    Rooster or Hen?

    Argh I was hoping it wasnt a boy! Hes one of my favorites and I am not allowed to have roosters in my area Looks like hes going up for sale gahhhh.
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    Rooster or Hen?

    This chicken is a few months old, they are all just starting to sound like real chickens now and Im thinking it looks like a rooster... It kind of has the curved feathers on the tail, what do you think?? The breed is Golden Sex Link.
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    New hatched chick!

    Haha awwwhh yeah I love that picture! I took it as quick as I could with my cell phone, im suprised it came out so clear.. thanks guys
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    New hatched chick!

    My new babies! Baby #3 Baby #1 and #2 Baby #1 with mamma
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    New hatched chick!

    Two more of my baby chicks hatched today! another grey one and another is lighter with a stripe on its head, kinda looks like my aracauna when he was a baby.. haha. I originally raised my 2 silkies with rhode island reds, 2 of the reds died at a young age and the other one died this last...
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    New hatched chick!

    I really got lucky with this one, I didnt do a darn thing and let the two mamma broodies do there thing and as I was cleaning there coop today I heard something peeping, thought it was one of them but when i moved both there butts out of the way to clean there nest I found a cute little chick...
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    Silkie Aracauna???

    Anyone have any silkie mixed with aracauna pictures?? My rooster (aracauna) fertilized my silkie, Im curious as to what they will look like!!
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    Leaving fertalized eggs with the hens?

    I made myself a candler and checked the other three eggs and they're all babies!! Im so excited! I saw one of them moving around! Im gonna go get some chick starter, cant seem to find my old stuff, and gonna try to clean up their coop a lil bit so they have a cleaner hatching spot. Is it weird...
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    Leaving fertalized eggs with the hens?

    Thank you! I will check into making some kinda of egg candler thingy right away. I don't wanna throw anymore baby chicks in my sink I felt absolutely horrible! Im going to check those last three eggs and hope she has another baby in one of them! If there is a baby, and if it hatches, do I...
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    Leaving fertalized eggs with the hens?

    I have two silkie hens in one coop together and 8 other chickens (2 are roosters) in another coop and i let them all free range together and today I collected 4 eggs out from the silkies butts (they sleep in the same nest together) I hadn't collected the eggs in awhile, so I started to throw...
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    How many fertile eggs is about normal?

    I have 2 silkie hens, atleast I think they are both hens, and a few weeks ago shes started brooding and rarely ever comes out of the coop. I was collecting her eggs for awhile hoping that she'd eventually stop but she never did so then we kinda stopped collecting them because she would rarely...
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