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    Hens stopped laying

    How long have you had them? The move probably stressed them out, they are also pretty old for laying hens, if they are a production breed.
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    Chicken attacked

    Chickens can recover from some amazingly devastating injuries. The living ones aren't the ones with the beaks chewed off were they?
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    Desperate for urgent help with my Agnes.. egg bound

    Your biggest worry right now is her developing egg yolk peritonitis, egg bound is when an egg is stuck in there, shell and egg oozing out of her is a different story. Egg yolk is a perfect breeding host for many kinds of bacteria. You may need to get her started on some antibiotics.
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    Leghorn Chicks eating my Bielefelder chicks. Suggestions??

    What are you using for heat in your brooder! Sometimes changing to a red bulb helps this, it keeps the blood from being so visible. Blue-cote any bloody areas so they stop pecking them.
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    Baby duck egg dead or alive please help!

    No way to tell really from the outside. I would incubate it and just sniff test it every day. If it starts stinking, it's dead.
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    Candling Amateur needs advice, PLEASE!

    Use your nose. A stinker usually stinks BEFORE it explodes. I take my egg trays out once a week and give them a good sniff, each egg. I have had exploders before, and they never affected my rate of hatch as long as I took them out promptly and cleaned up any mess. But you can almost always...
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    Ducklings taking too long? Getting nervous...

    How long after external pips showed was it before you got the humidity raised properly?
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    I have chirping in two eggs...

    Let them be, they should be able to handle it themselves. Sit on your hands, leave that incubator locked down, and try to keep calm. Many things can affect what day they hatch, temperature fluctuations and the like. If they have internally pipped and are chirping in there, they will be doing...
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    How can I get my hens to brood?

    If they are hatchery Rhode Island reds, they may never go broody. The hatcheries have bred that out of them, focusing on egg laying. I have had plenty of incubator born chicks grow into fantastic brooders, I have found it depends more on the breed and background then how they were hatched.
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    Milk and Chickens?

    I haven't found a tried or true method for solving egg eating, it seems what works for some, doesn't work for others, and sometimes that habit can never be broken.
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    Duck eggs not hatching after day 29???

    What kind of ducks, and has your temperature stayed steady throughout incubation? What kind of incubator are you using?
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    What do you do with cockerels that you hatch?

    The first time is the hardest, but it is an easy process to learn. I was raised a farm girl, so extra roosters are just cooking materials to me unless anyone wants them as breeders. I like to process them at the first major crow, they aren't as big as a grocery store chicken, but they are a lot...
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    Precision Incubator with advanced temperature and humidity control

    Just a question, do you not worry that the single egg you have the thermometer taped to may be in a hot spot in your incubator? I would be so worried that that single egg would be in a hot spot and the rest of the eggs would be cooling down as the temperature is set for the optimum for that...
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    To seperate or not???

    I would brood them separately for a variety of reasons. Age difference mixed with the size difference being the main two, you don't want any squishing to happen I am sure.
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    are my 2 buff orpingtons broody?? please help

    Well if they stay on them for a day or two, and stay on them at night, you can probably go ahead and put eggs under them.
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    Smoky Mtn East TN

    I apparently forgot this thread existed about a year ago, but I still exist I promise! Glad you guys do too. :lol:
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    are my 2 buff orpingtons broody?? please help

    I would get some fake eggs or golf balls to test their actual broodiness. You don't want them to get eggs started then abandon them. A true broody hen will keep her butt on that nest almost 24-7.
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    baby chick deathx2

    Good luck, I hope that solves your issues! Keep me updated, my inbox is always open and I check it often.
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    Does Anyone Set "By the Moon"?

    I just set every Tuesday. :) That is a pretty interesting chart though, I would love to see someone set hatches by that chart and see if there is a difference.
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    Worried about flying.

    You also have the option of only free ranging in the late afternoon, they will wander around but not far as they like to stay close to their perches in the evening.
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