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    feeding layer feed when there's a chick present.

    If I'm not supposed to feed layer feed until 18 weeks how do I feed the flock if one of the hens has a chick. I was gonna by a bag if purina flock raiser to put in the feeder and then add oyster shells to the coop for the hens but I didn't know if the hens will still lay. I was tild they don't...
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    internal pip..... I need advice

    Hey everyone im hoping yall can help. I have one egg that I have incubated. I got confused because I had other eggs incubating when I put this one in the bator.. plus I had some eggs under a hen at my neighbors and some under one of my hens. Well with all the egg-ruckus going on I cant remember...
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    Help please!

    This whole time I thought I put them in on the 26th of july. Also I only have two in there because out of 8 eggs from very young hens only two showed embryos in candleing. Well one is brown and it was completely black two days ago when I candeled. The other is a white egg and two days ago it...
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    Help please!

    So ive been stressing over my chicks for a few days because. I thought they were supposed to hatch on friday and havent well I was watching tv and all the sudden heard cheeps from the kitchen where the incubator is!! I flew in here and theres nothing not even a pip but the chick is cheeping. Is...
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    Hello from Texas

    Thank you! Can she handle the big eggs too? Or only the little banty eggs?
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    Hello from Texas

    Hello, I am new to the forum but have made this site my go to for all answers Chicken! when i was young my parents got my two chickens. I named them Chirp and Mirp. I knew NOTHING about chickens but i loved these birds. They were potty trained (i have no idea how i did it) so i was allowed to...
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    hello

    I pick mine up and carry them around so they bond with me. That way if i need them to do something im not chasing them around the farm. I carried my chickens out of the cage and set them down away from the cage. They will get used to being out and pretty soon will be waiting at the door for you...
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    Lost Power & heat dropped in incubator for 6 hrs to 73 deg.

    Last night around 8 O' Clock our power went out due to a storm. It was day one of Lockdown so i was kinda freaking out trying to figure out a way to create heat for them. My final decision was to put them in my bra. So i took a shower, to make sure my skin was clean put on a clean bra, and...
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