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    Issue where fully developed chick drowns instead of internal pipping

    ok, I will def try that next time, fingers crossed!
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    Issue where fully developed chick drowns instead of internal pipping

    100 F and 60-70 for hatch, before lockdown the dry method (usually around 30 percent humidity) I have a cheaper reptile thermometer/hygrometer in the incubator with the eggs to check against the incubator's thermometer. I could probably spring for a better one but I wasn't having this issue...
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    Issue where fully developed chick drowns instead of internal pipping

    I've been having an issue where my chicks make it to day 21 but instead of internally pipping seem to die. Upon eggtopsy if I peel the membrane a ginger ale colored fluid comes out, but otherwise the chicks are at near full yolk absorption, mostly tiny veining on the membrane, not malpositioned...
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    Do falcons eat eyeballs?

    A peregrine got in my run today, but I heard them calling and ran outside. The run is covered so he couldn't swoop but he had one of my chickens. She's a polish, and it looks like he was confused by her crest feathers and only mostly managed to pluck her. She actually looks to have superficial...
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    What would kill but not eat my rooster

    That's miserable. I hope if the dog is owned by somebody, it doesn't come back...ugh.
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    What would kill but not eat my rooster

    I'm in Pennsylvania. Thanks for your sympathies.
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    What would kill but not eat my rooster

    Late morning, my rooster died. There were multiple piles of feathers around the yard, the little guy put up a fight and led the predator away from the coop. Bites were mostly to the tail and back of the rooster. Whatever it was pulled out bunches of tailfeathers at once. Poor roo got stuck in...
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    Hard molt when it is dipping into the low 20s at night

    One of my dominiques is in the middle of a rough molt right now. Her sister is starting too. She has only little pinfeather nubs all down her butt and belly and has large naked patches. She was shivering a little today but is still active. Will she be ok with no feathers at night or should I...
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    My smallest hen is limping

    I figured as much. I doubt he will stop mating her so frequently, so she's back in the cage until the chicks are big enough she won't kill them, then I will stick her in a separate enclosure with them. Hopefully they will get along with little fuss...I'm thinking maybe I should remove another...
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    My smallest hen is limping

    Update: I separated her into the broody breaker cage within sight of her flock and she has gotten better. Sometimes she still limps but she's not doing the hobble. I let her back with the flock today....and the big rooster immediately flattened her without her squatting. She didn't re-injure...
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    My smallest hen is limping

    I have a 3.9 lb hen and and 8.2 lb roo. He tends to mate her the most because he can squish her, the other 5-7 lb hens aren't as cooperative. Can he give her a sprain? I checked her feet and there were no lesions, they were not swollen. Eyes weren't weird from Marek's and no one else has shown...
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    Consistent, loud crying from a 20-week-old hen

    My 2 wellies are the loudest chickens in my flock. One of them egg songs like a fire siren for literally 15 minutes, which seems like an hour mentally, when she lays her egg. She will also go in the coop and egg song for other chickens, even after she has laid her egg for the day. When my flock...
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    Sexing 7 week old tolbunt polish...red noses?

    Any signs showing of what gender these chicks are yet? Most of them have bright red above the ridge of their noses. Is that an indicator they are cockerels? The four red nosed ones also have smaller head poofs, so I'm thinking I have 4 boys and 2 girls. :/ The last pic is the suspected boys...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    They were all under my large fowl Welsummer the whole time since day one. I noticed sometimes her eggs were visible a bit in the front near her shoulders, maybe she didn't get it quite right. She rejected 2 eggs that were in lockdown in the incubator (one hatched). I think the pipped eggs I put...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Yep, all at the same time
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