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    How bizzar is this!

    Yesterday was supposed to be hatch day. Nothing hatched. Turns out all the eggs were infertile. There was no sign that any embryo ever started to develop. I have seven hens and one rooster. All the eggs should have been fertile. I have seen the rooster do his thing. But this hatch was...
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    countryside organic chick starter

    I think it should be okay. There is no expiration dates on any of the chicken feed bags. So if it isn't moldy it's okay.
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    Hooray!!! She finally did it! (I think...)

    probably from little Yoko.
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    Molting??

    It could be molting. Or Do you have a rooster? Is he maybe too aggressive in mounting her? That can quickly defrock a hens back. I would suggest you make a chicken saddle also called hen apron and put it on her. It's getting to cold for hens to be so bare. I just made one out of fake fur...
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    What The Heck Is My Chicken Doing?

    Burping?
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    Chick just hatched and Mama's acting weird.

    I think everything is going to be okay.
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    Help--need advice--baby chicks and afternoon heat!!!!

    I live in Arizona and hot is the norm here most of the time. From my experience, leave them in the garage where you have them but turn off the brooder light. If they get cold at night they will just clump together. Make sure they have plenty of water available. And it's okay that they spread...
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    Bamboo

    Humans eat bamboo shoots so it should be okay for chickens too.
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    What are they trying to do??? Eat me???

    I have somewhat the same experience. My 7 week old chicks love to jump up into my lap. One even settled down like she was going to take a nap. One jumped on my head. I was just their replacement mamma hen since the broody that hatched them is back to laying eggs again and has deserted them...
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    rattesnake

    and no, rattlesnakes do not taste like chicken. My son skinned one and cooked it, could not down it. It was awful.
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    rattesnake

    When you live where I do rattlesnakes at this time of the year is common. This is the first one this year. I know now that if I go anywhere on this property other than from my front door to the car it is prudent to wear my high boots. I just came back in from slitting the rattler open and...
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    rattesnake

    I had an interesting start to my morning. Went out at sunrise to do the chicken chores. As I approached the hen yard I heard this hiss. Being it was that early in the morning I knew it could not be cicadas. I looked around and could not see anything immediately, then I spotted him, a huge...
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    Large size differential between two chicks of the same age.

    Nothing to worry about. My Americauna is much smaller than the other chickens. It's the breed.
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    Soft shell egg -like a water balloon!! What is going on here? HELP!

    It sounds like you need to get oyster shells to supplement their diets so the shells will be tough like they are supposed to be.
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    The Weather Is Brutally Hot, What Can We Do To Help Chickens?!?!?

    I live in Arizona and heat is an ever present thing here. Shade is essential. My hen yard is shaded by a large mesquite tree. If your hen yard does not have natural shade, make some. Shade cloth works great for that. I have several shallow water dishes which get filled up by a micro hose...
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    Eggs laid - No one claims them?

    A hen has to go broody before she will sit on eggs. And at four months old, like you said, that is too young for a hen to go broody. They have to be at least a year old.
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    Hatching with broody - will other hens/rooster kill chicks?

    I let Momma hen and her chicks out with the flock when they were only a few days old. Everything seemed fine until one day one was missing. I found it dead in the big fenced in chicken pasture. I think it was one of my hens which was always fighting with the momma that did it. Since then, I...
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    I'm thinking about helping....PLEASE READ & ADVISE ME!!! *u*p*d*a*t*e*

    I just helped a chick hatch. Two days ago, which was day 18, this egg got crushed in on one side, but the membrane was still there. I'm assuming that the shell was too weak. At any rate, I could not leave it that way since hatch day was still a few days away. I took it inside and with masking...
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    collecting eggs

    Before you can set a batch of eggs you have to wait for a hen to go broody. That varies with each individual hen. Some breeds don't go broody at all. What breed do you have? Once a hen goes broody then start saving eggs to set a clutch. I assume you have more than one hen. Eggs are good to...
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    cannabel?

    I wonder what's going on. I set a broody with 12 eggs on the 14th. Today there are only 11 eggs under her. The other eggs are yellow smeared. Do you suppose that she ate one of the eggs?
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