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    Joining from NH

    The kids love watching it all! I also have 4 kids of my own at home. They love the chickens and spend hours with them each day! I hatched ducks one year at work and that was awesome! How many ducks did you keep? Do you still raise ducks now, or are you just keeping chickens now?
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    Presumed Dead Chick ALIVE! Plz Help!

    I forgot to mention that each hatch is different and each egg is different. You cant really compare one egg to another. Part of helping an egg Is a gut feeling. As long as you really give it a proper amount of time to hatch on its own, otherwise you could hurt a healthy chick from trying to...
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    Presumed Dead Chick ALIVE! Plz Help!

    I have heard if you start to see blood when you are helping a chick hatch stop immediately or it can kill the chick from bleeding to death. I have helped some chicks and they have made a wonderful recovery. I have also helped some that didn't make it. Some say when you help a chick it most...
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    freezing eggs???

    That is too funny! What a guy for eating her runny frozen eggs!
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    New Hampshire Chickens!

    Hi Everyone, I am new to keeping chickens and am very excited to be on this journey. I tried to find a NH state thread, but it appears we don't have one yet! Hopefully all us NH peeps can get one! I have black sex links and RIR currently. I have another set of different breeds in the...
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    New Hampshire!

    I'm from Southern NH, right next to the MA border! Where abouts in NH are you?
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    New to the farm life.

    I am new to this as well. When did you start noticing the red on your RIR? I have two and think they are both hens, but they are 6 weeks....so hopefully I will start to see in the next few weeks for sure. I do have 3 roos from sex links and one has started getting its waddles and more...
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    Joining from NH

    Hi Everyone! We are starting to keep chickens this year. I am a teacher and have hatched chickens for years but this is the first time I am keeping chicks. I have done a TON of research, been learning a bunch from BYC, and have read multiple books. I hatched chicks 6 weeks ago and have loved...
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