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    Lost my entire flock

    I don’t know if it was the skunk that did it all or if it just happen to come across the aftermath. Whatever it was moved 4 bricks and dug a huge hole to get under my coop.
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    Lost my entire flock

    I’m not looking for an advice I know how it happened there is no one to blame but myself. This morning I looked out the window to do a quick head count but I didn’t see any of my chickens instead I saw something black in my coop. I quickly went outside and saw that it was a skunk. As I...
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    Help Dead Chicks

    Thanks for all the thoughts and advise. I’ve been watching everyone today and now all the chicks are the same size. Everyone has clear vents and clean poop. Hopefully it was just that those 4 were weaker or injured from the shipping. Will post any updates.
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    Help Dead Chicks

    I'll post photos if it happens again. Hopefully they were the runts and weaker than the others.
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    Help Dead Chicks

    Three of the dead chicks were in the nest area. So I figured it was over heating or freezing. They did look kinda squished but I thought it was because they had died. The chick I found today was in an area that they hang out in (run spaced). None of these chicks have looked odd the day...
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    Help Dead Chicks

    Ok this might be a long story but I really getting tired of find a dead chick every morning. Back in late August my hen went broody. So I decided to expand my flock (at the time 3 orpington hens). I had 10 fertiziled eggs shipped to me. I placed them under mama hen but around day 12 none of...
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    1 day old chicks

    Hi all, I’m receiving 8 one day old chicks this week. However I’ll be placing them with a broody hen who has been sitting on fertilized eggs that never developed (scrambled ☹️). The day the chicks arrive I’ll be placing them under momma hen in the evening. So they will be without her maybe 6 to...
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    Do I need a heat lamp?

    So even if it’s for 6hrs or less? They day they arrive I’ll be placing them that evening/night
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    Do I need a heat lamp?

    I have a broody hen sitting on a clutch of eggs. But the eggs were mailed to me and didn’t develop. So the person I got the eggs from are going to send me 1 day old chicks. I’m going to swap the eggs for the chicks. I’ll do this at night when mom hen is asleep and she will wake up and just think...
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    How many chicks are too many?

    She is an orpington and all the eggs and chicks will be Orpington too
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    How many chicks are too many?

    I have a coop from the coop company. The run is 31.5” x 85.5” The coop is 55” x 26”. she had 4 chicks hatch earlier this summer. So the 5 of them were ok in the coop. I am getting a second coop n run. So I can split everyone up when they start to get big. Also I have family n friends...
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    How many chicks are too many?

    I have a hatch going that I completely thought no eggs were developing. But out of the 13 eggs it turns out that 4 are developing. However I did talk to the guy I got the eggs from and he was willing to send me 8 one day old chicks around the time my batch should be hatching. I would still like...
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    Help! About to throw out all my eggs

    It lays on the side. But I know it’s turning then. Heard and seen it do it. Will these eggs hatch? I would hate to keep developing them only to have them not make it during hatch.
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    Help! About to throw out all my eggs

    They are all Orpington eggs. So they are easy to see through. The weird thing is the 2 eggs that are developing on the side one is under my hen and the other is in the incubator. And here is another weird thing..both of the eggs are marked that they are both from the same color and pen.
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    Help! About to throw out all my eggs

    I have 13 eggs right now, 7 are under a broody hen and 6 are in my incubator. Yesterday was day 7 and out of 13 eggs only 2 were showing veining. All the rest looked the same as they did on day 1. The eggs were shipped to me so I do know my hatch rate will be low. This the second time that...
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