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    Newbie Question: Can I put both chicken & duck eggs in at the same

    I just purchased a Top Hatch incubator by Brower. It arrived although it was missing the "floor" piece so I have to wait a few days to get that in the mail. I have collected about 15 Cuckoo Maran eggs along with 15 Pekin duck eggs. As I have been reading on here and other places about how...
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    Can a male Pekin drake fertilize a Pekin hen?

    Quick question... A person told me that she had heard that a Pekin drake could not fertilize a Pekin hen? Is this true. I have looked at my eggs and have seen the small "bull's eye" on the yolk. She said she had a male & female Pekin for years and they did not have fertilized eggs. I just...
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    Fertility Question & need some info...

    I have 2 Pekin hens and 1 Pekin drake. The females are about 6 - 7 months old and my male is about 3 months old (maybe a little more). He has been breeding with my 2 females - but how can I tell if the eggs are fertile? Is he too immature to fertilize the eggs or is it a case of "old enough...
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    I guess they do love warm mash!

    We had some "Malt-O-Meal" that our kids would not eat. As I read the box it is high in Vit. C and also B's. Made some... mixed birdseeed, scratch, and black oil sunflower seeds. Took it out to them warm and had 20 of my girls push me out of the way and dove right in. They loved it. My wife...
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    RED STAR OWNERS

    I have a redstar... we named her Little Red Hen. She is smaller than our others because when she was about 14 weeks old she was attacked by a hawk (we think). She lost ALL her tail feathers and had several puncture wounds to her torso. I just knew she'd be dead by morning. We nursed on her...
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    Texas

    Hi Carla and TX... Checking to see if we made it to the list? We're located in Huntsville, TX just up I-45 from Houston. We got our first chicks in June '08. Started with the Meat and Eggs combo and "dispatched" our broilers... fell in love with our layers and now we are up to 40 + total...
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    Jelly like egg? What's up with that?

    Yep... was going to take a pic but then the egg cracked and went everywhere... would have been a pic of just runny goo. Sorry. Paul
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    Jelly like egg? What's up with that?

    I'm back for some "learnin'"... Wife just brought in an egg that looked like a "jelly - gelatinous" sack around a thin shelled egg. As she began to wipe the gel off the egg broke. I assume this was just an immature - under developed egg? The egg was larger than average prob. coming from one...
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    Help!!!STOLEN CHICKENS NEED GUARD DOG!!!!!

    Hey SMS, I have a Great Pyrenees named Samson. He is about a year and a half old and he watches out for my chickens. He is great!! Although sometimes I'll hear him chasing off some critter in the early hours. I free range about 18 hens during the day and have 15 BO's that are about 10 weeks...
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    Howdy from TX...new member here...

    Howdy TXMom... Welcome to the site! I've found tons of helpful info on here for me a "Chicken Newbie". We're located up I-45 in Huntsville, TX from you. We too are fairly new to the wonderful world of chickens. We got our first batch of layers this past June 08. At first my wife was...
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    Concerned one of my hens has Infectious Coryza - Advice?

    I spoke with a professor from Texas A&M. He said that it sounded like CRD (Mycoplasmosis) to him, because my hen does not have a "smelly" nasal discharge. I understood him to say this was worse than IC. I'm so disappointed that I ever tried to build up my flock with these new birds. He said...
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    Concerned one of my hens has Infectious Coryza - Advice?

    Thank you for the great advice. I'm afraid I did not know about the "keeping the new ones seperated for 30 days". I did seperate the sick one as soon as I found her. I have started her on antibiotics this morning (just found her yesterday). I will call our Ag Extension Agent for further...
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    Concerned one of my hens has Infectious Coryza - Advice?

    Hi, I am new to Backyardchickens website and also to raising my little flock. I have had my girls now for only about 23 weeks. I recently (3 weeks ago) bought 10 new pullets and one rooster from an individual. These hens are about the same age as the girls. I introduced them to my flock...
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