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    Any of these look fertile?

    He's maybe 3, I hatched him from eggs been with the hens since he was probably 4/5 months old. 2 hens are under 1 year maybe around 8 months other 2 are 1 to 2 years old. Hens been laying for maybe 2 months or more pullets started laying around 6 months old.
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    Any of these look fertile?

    The one I've circled? Would you give up on the rooster if in my shoes?
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    Egg issues

    Layer pellets and a bit of kibbled maize mixed through. They're in different pens for breeding purposes and have access to oyster shell grit in a separate feeder. They haven't had any medication and always have water avaliable. They get the odd vege scraps from the garden and kitchen. These are...
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    Egg issues

    Help Having some issues with my eggs. Eggs after a few days get a mottled look on the yolk and watery whites also the yolk is quite fragile. Shells are fine, some have extra calcium deposits. They look great within the first day but if they sit a few days the yolks get like spots on them, and...
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    Any of these look fertile?

    Do any of these look fertile? Pretty sure maybe one is, just want some more opinions. Pretty sure roosters infertile, been with 4 hens for about a month, havent seen a fertile egg the whole time. He did ok last year, but has had a bit of something, gunky ears and watery eyes. Seems to have come...
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    Fertility

    I'd have to have a closer look the next lot I put in incubator ( I've had same issue under hens also) so far I've set 35 eggs and 13 have been viable. First lot due to hatch 14/9. If he's selecting hens would that put it down to him just being a 'bad rooster'? I need to check that I trimmed his...
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    Fertility

    Would 12 hens to one rooster cause fertility issues? I'm getting about 37% fertility Blue orpington rooster probably around a year old, didn't hatch from him last season as was too young. Hens mixed ages from about 3 years to around a year. I've trimmed their bums They're penned up and feed a...
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    How many are fertile

    Thanks! That is what I thought I've been getting messed up looking at so many they all started looking the same. Is it weird that the thre Fertile are brighter orange than the unfertile. They are oprington eggs all from same pen.
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    How many are fertile

    How many of these eggs look fertile to you??
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    Necropcy, warning! photos of internal organs!

    Possibility, I brought 2 lots off eggs from different places and hatched them, so unless there's issues with parent stock where I got them from, I'd not know. It is interesting as not all have the issue, so it could be the ones from one lot of eggs. It could be that they have weak immune systems.
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    Necropcy, warning! photos of internal organs!

    Yea I had also thought a secondary infection of some sort, possibly to a coccidia out break. I know a vet could do much more and possibly get answers but it would be very expensive and I can't justify that (just yet) and is why i wanted to take a look myself. These chooks run in a pen that's...
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    Necropcy, warning! photos of internal organs!

    I posted on here about some rhode islands drinking alot and doing very watery poops. I decided to cull the worst one to take a look inside (I've processed many roosters for eating and have a rough idea what should be 'normal') I took a couple photos, should've taken more oops. Hen was literally...
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    Chicken water diarrhea

    I would try a wormer and see
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    Chicken water diarrhea

    Have you ever wormed your chooks?
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    Watery poops

    High quality layer pellets, as i said above wormed multiple times, also treated for coccidia. Adding bedding doesn't treat the problem, I'm constantly cleaning out the house.
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    Watery poops

    I have 5 breeding pens with various breeds all mostly managed the same way, no issues. A year ago I got some rhode island eggs brought eggs from 2 sources hatched raised etc to start a breeding group. The pen they're in used to be araucanas and they had no issues. They also have contact through...
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    White Orpington Genetics

    I did notice the black feather shaft when I was taking them. So pure whites won't have that? Will be interesting to see if she does get some darker after she moults. I'll have a closer look at the other chick/pullet I've got I'd say it would be her offspring (she's the only splash in the...
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    White Orpington Genetics

    Here's some photos, excuse her outfit the rooster quite likes her she's also a big dirty as white chickens do :lol:
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    White Orpington Genetics

    Cant seem to find much info I have a group of orpingtons and last year i had a blue rooster with blue and black hens, somehow from that I got a hen that is pretty much white? I know blue is dilute and can get various shades but she has no splashes of darker, like others that i hatched last year...
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    Drinking lots

    I have a group of rhode islands that are going through a lot of water like 20litres in 2 to 3 days there's 8 of them 7 hens 1 roo. 20l usually last my other pens nearly a week with more hens. They all seem fine I get about 5 or 6 eggs a day. I thought it was the waterer leaking but I've...
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