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    Unexpected Death

    Today all of a sudden one of our chickens died, it died in the /cage/fencing mid afternoon. In the morning it was eating and drinking perfectly fine but in the afternoon we found it dead. We were wondering what could have killed it, our first guess was a snake. could you please help me with your...
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    Unusually big egg

    Ohhhh! Thanks, I was just really confused because this never happened before;the younger chickens are about 6 months old.
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    Unusually big egg

    The other day when we were getting the eggs from the chicken coop we found an egg about three times the size of the other eggs, what happened? I will try uploading a picture.
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    They're here! 18 baby chicks!

    Those chicks look really pretty, good luck:)
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    What to do with a newly hatched duck

    I found the tips and suggestions, you basically treat them like chickens just different food.(interesting)thanks for the help, links, and suggestions. The duck is playing with other chicks. At first the chicks kept pecking at the ducks webbed feet and legs because it was different, but now the...
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    What to do with a newly hatched duck

    A duck hatched yesterday night. We didn't expect it to come out though because we missed about one week straight of turning it. So we didn't prepare a cage or anything, this is also our first time hatching ducks so I have no idea what to do. The duck hatched after 36 days days does this...
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    Official BYC Poll: Why Do You Have Chickens - Select All That Apply

    When you look at chickens and see their funny sounds and movements it makes you smile, helps you relax.
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    Chicken not coming out of egg

    Thanks for the advice I slowly broke off the shell, but now part of the egg shell is stuck on her. I think some chicks have actually eaten off the shell. Now she looks like a regular chicken:) Thanks again!!!
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    Chicken not coming out of egg

    We have a egg with a chicken where the head of the chicken has almost come out, but its been like that for 12 hours already. I slightly cracked it to make it easier to come out but it seems like the chicken is too weak or stuck to the egg. What should we do?
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    dont want her to die

    I have not had much experience with deformed beaks, but recently one of my chickens came out of the egg with a weird shape. The chickens back was bent int o a ball like she couldn't open it. So we put the chicken in a separate container under the light. The next morning she had already joined...
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    Candling eggs CORRECTLY

    So we created a candler and we tested it We looked at some pictures to give us an idea if chick is live or dead inside. One that was said you needed to throw out was dots all over shell. We opened egg and there was a chicken inside!!!!!!!! We studied egg shell and found it was just design of...
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    Yolk not absorbed? Help Please!

    That happened to us, we put in a separate plastic container inside the cardboard box. But other chickens pecked at it so we moved it to a higher spot in the box. We thought it would die but got better and hopped out by itself and joined other chicks. Funny thing was that other chicks would eat...
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    Questions on taking chicks out of incubator

    The chicks are dead now, I don't want to accidentally somehow kill the other chick in the incubator right now.
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    Questions on taking chicks out of incubator

    We are hatching chickens in an incubator and 3chickens came out yesterday, so we took them out during the night around two.i know you should wait around 24hours but the were jumping around, chirping and playing with the other eggs. We gave them light around90degrees but this morning when we...
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    HELP! How long to remove chicks after hatching in incubator?

    We used the little giant incubator and just added water in every by opening incubator then dumping in water to the holes. I am unsure but you could probably dump water in right when thy hatch, hope this helps:)
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