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    Chicken not laying!! Help!!

    I am not sure either, but you might get more help on the egg laying board. It is called Chicken Behaviors/Egg Laying Good luck! Inga
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    New pics of my mutts.... UPDATED 8/26

    Very pretty! I especially like the last one! Inga
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    Hatching Duck eggs

    I have heard both ways. I have washed with just warm water and had a successful hatch. I had to wash off egg that had dried onto all the other eggs. Some people swear by each method. Inga
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    New Girl - Cinder

    Awwweee, that is so sweet. So nice of you to take her in like that. Poor thing has had it rough. Inga
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    I know these are early....

    Anymore guesses? Inga
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    I know these are early....

    The smaller, slower to feather is the rooster? That was my guess so far too? I think it is odd that he has yellow legs as none of my chickens have yellow legs. Genetics can be so weird. Inga
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    How often do you candle?

    I use the same method. Toilet paper tube, small bright flashlight with (new) batteries. The only egg of my hens that I can't see anything but the air sack is a olive green egg. Her eggs are green all the way through. I have a hen that lays lighter green eggs, and I can see a little more, but...
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    I know these are early....

    Here is their Dad when he was a chick.. Here he is a little older..he now has a huge triple comb and huge wattles Any of these 4 could be the mother, I wasn't home when they hatched and dh is color blind and doesn't know what color egg shell they came from. DOH! This hen lays olive green...
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    Sunbathing chicks..

    Have you ever seen anything like this? They seem to go into a trance when I hold them, especially if it sunny out. They look dead, especially this one, he/she really relaxes. Weird huh? Cat trying to look all innocent. Who me? Inga
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    I know these are early....

    These chicks are a little over 3 weeks old. They are mutts, but still so cute! Just wondering if anyone has any early guesses to gender? Same one: Both together: Compared to the cat(who would no doubt eat them if given the chance): Thanks! Inga
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    rotten egg ruining hatch?

    Quote: I think if the room is still smelly then you have another bad egg. When I have removed the bad egg the smell dissipates pretty quickly. Unless a lot of fluid leaked into the bator, that is now cooking inside there. Inga
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    I was curious..........

    I have dark green eggs that I can't see anything but the air sack at the big end, that is it. I just do a sniff test on those to make sure they aren't stinky. So I would say you couldn't see anything due to egg color, dark green or brown shell? Inga
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    Can you hatch duck eggs without turning them?

    What do you do for lock down? Just leave them in the cartons? Thanks, Inga
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    Lost chicks after hatch by leaving them in the incubator

    I don't think my temps were off but I am pretty sure they hatched early because they had been sitting in a hidden nest outside for days before I found them and brought them in. Our temps have been hot, hot, hot here so pretty easy to start an egg developing. Live and learn! I will...
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    Lost chicks after hatch by leaving them in the incubator

    nickrex98 - I did not leave them in there for 4 days! Only around 48 hours. I was just following the advice that many people post on here about leaving them in there for 48-72 hours won't hurt them. The 3 that are alive are slowly coming around. The kiddos are ready to try again of course...
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    Lost chicks after hatch by leaving them in the incubator

    I followed the advice on here about not opening incubator once chicks start to hatch. Ours started to hatch 4 days before day 21 in incubator, so we filled up the water reservoir and shut the incubator. Today we had a friend check on them this morning and 9 were hatched and alive. We came...
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    Look at this first egg!!

    The small brown and medium green egg are from chickens who have been laying since last week. This is the first from this hen today. She did make the egg song before laying it. There was a little bit of blood on it too. Poor girl, her first and she got no break with smaller eggs! Inga
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    Guess who laid our first 2 green eggs????

    Okay, it is officially and totally confirmed that my Zebra (Barred Rock) is laying the green eggs. I heard the egg song this morning, so went running out there, and nothing was going on. So I fed them some bread and then Zebra headed to a nesting box. She jumped out after awhile and pecked...
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    Guess who laid our first 2 green eggs????

    Well, this afternoon we went out to the coop to see if there were anymore eggs yet and my ds found another small green egg but it was out in the run/yard, not in the nesting box??? So Hmmm? I wonder who that one came from. Inga
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    Guess who laid our first 2 green eggs????

    We got our first egg yesterday. I was surprised to find a small green egg when I went and checked the nest boxes. After so many months of not finding anything. Well, I was really surprised that it was green. Because the chicken that we know to be an EE, I didn't think was ready to lay yet...
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