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    am I seeing things?

    Good chance that it is. That dot should be even more visible by day 7 and the blood vessels will be quite obvious. Best of luck on your hatch! I totally resonate with the impatience - all I want to do when I’m hatching is candle! 😆
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    Thank you for sharing your experience. It does seem strange to me too. This hen was also picked on by the top hen of our previous flock, the other hen would mount and harass her a bit from time to time, but not any of my other hens. And never bothered her as much as our rooster now does (or did...
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    horselover1999's 2025 flock

    I somehow forgot about this thread and now am caught up how cute are they!!! 🤩 Also feeling very happy to know that Basil turned out to be a good boy!!! 💞
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    Yes, we will be cautious and supervise any integrations.
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    Thank you for the response. As stated previously, I would not force her to live with him, and am grateful to have the ability and space to keep her and a couple of her friends separated permanently if it means she can live peacefully without being harassed by him. I suppose my question was more...
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    Thank you for your response. I really appreciate it - I think that’s what we will do, is keep them separate and I’m thankful we have the ability to do so. They can see but not touch each other the way we have them separated which I’m glad to hear is a good thing. I’ve never seen a hen have her...
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    Strange egg, the shell sounds like metal? Video included!

    Yes! I love it! haha. I am so curious to open it too! We will video when we crack it open when my husband gets home, after we tap it against a variety of different objects for fun.. I mean, for research, of course. 🤣
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    Strange egg, the shell sounds like metal? Video included!

    Sounds similar when tapped with my fingernail and on the counter, like a metal tinging! I will video it tapped against different things in the next one, before we crack it! Isn't it bizarre?
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    Strange egg, the shell sounds like metal? Video included!

    So this is a new one for us! I collected eggs yesterday. Our young pullets have just started laying within the last two weeks or so. I know to expect odd eggs, shell-less, double yolkers, etc, but this is a whole new experience. I'm not really concerned about it, but found it fascinating, and I...
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    Egg shell sounds metallic

    Here to add that we also found a metallic sounding egg today from our young Easter egger pullet. I took a video of it compared to another of her eggs from days before. I will upload tomorrow if I remember! So strange! I haven’t cracked it yet, though. It was so distinctly different, I noticed...
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    Rooster is perfect to all hens, except one?

    Hi all. I will try to give as much context as possible here, I’ve never experienced this degree of targeting. Our flock consists of 3 older hens, 6 pullets and one young rooster (5 months). He is the son of our original rooster Hawkeye and we kept him out of all the boys because he had the best...
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Congratulations winners!! What adorable pictures and babies :love
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    Open Contest BYC Pets & Livestock Caption Contest Photo Submission - Thread #2

    No way! Haha how cool. Zip (the brown one) would be so embarrassed if he knew I exposed his hillbilly teeth! 🤣
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    Ended BYC's Springtacular Flower Photos

    Entry 1
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    Roo or Pullet? 🐓

    I'm REALLY not an expert, so take it with a grain of salt, but I would expect to see some pointed saddle feathers by this age if that was a cockerel. You could just have a pullet that is close to her point of lay.
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