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    Incubating Shell-less Eggs

    The other day I walked into the coop and saw a couple of lumps sitting where a few of my hens are known to randomly lay eggs. At first I thought it was poop but when I looked closer, it was really two shell-less eggs. One was broken and the yolk was spilled out, but the other was still intact. I...
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    Rat and other predator proofing

    For the winter, I moved my flock into a smaller room in the barn with a wood stove in it. Because I lost many chicks to rats, possums, raccoons, etc. I tried to go overboard on security. I have a grated door covered in a tarp with a wooden board on one side and a metal panel on the other...
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    Cochin, Orpington, or anything else?

    well...what do you guys think?
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    Set 50 eggs last night...lets see what develops

    Title's basically self explainatory. Ive got various mixes of laghorns, sebrights, game bantams, white rock, polish, and black sex linked chickens in these eggsm and i dont know whose egg is which or what rooster fertilized which egg. This will be fun hahah
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    Crazy breeds/Mutants

    This topic is for people with the most unique chickens in the world. For people whose silkies bred with their frizzles or their polish bred with their naked necks or what have you. People! Be proud of your unique birds! Here are mine Red OEG/Black Silkie I understand that's a weird comb...
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    brain damage from the cold?

    I wasnt sure if this topic should go here, diseases and injuries, or raising baby chicks, but i decided this was the best place. Today my broody hen's eggs all hatched. I went into the coop after school and noticed one egg with a pip through the shell, another chick on the ground, and two more...
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    lost 1/4 of my brood. (10 eggs). ARUUUUUUGAH.

    My black sex-link bantam Rosa decided to go broody this week. The only problem is that she laid her eggs in the same box that was already occupied my my mild-mannered broody Plymouth Rock, Zelda. One day I walked in and found that she kicked off another hen from her brood (which was much too...
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    are there dorking bantams?

    I have a little bantam who looks a lot like a dorking, the only difference is that he doesnt have extra toes. He's either a dorking bantam (if those exist) or a silver laced OEG rooster. Those darn english had to make their breeds so similar... Anyways, here's cletus.
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    are japanese hens broody?

    The title really speaks for itself here, but i just got a new japanese hen. I cant tell if shes too old for any more eggs or if she is too young. But what i am wondering is if she will go broody. Im also wondering if she is too old, will she still brood even though she herself cannot produce...
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    Selective breeding techniques? anyone?

    I've decided that i want some of my chickens to breed specifically with one another instead of having my hens just getting paired with whichever rooster she wanders closest to. I have them their own cages, with food and water, the whole 9 yards. my question was which is the best method? to keep...
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    tribute to chick, and its mom

    Yet another chicken, gone. This time the culprit seems to be rats, because i found the poor thing's mangled body today in the corner. her insides were eaten but her wings, feet, and head were held on solely by tendons. Unless the eggs the broody hen is sitting on now hatch, this will be the end...
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    What time does your flock go to sleep?

    i was cleaning the barn today, around 5:30, and all of a sudden the entire flock just went to their roosts in broad daylight. i figured they usually didnt head to sleep until the light was at more of an angle than it was at then. it isnt even sunset yet but they are probably still roosting now...
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    Hypnosis can be useful

    This polish rooster was the alpha male, and a real jerk to all my other chickens. I learned how to hypnotize chickens once and thought i'd give it a try. He didn't necessarily become docile after that, but it was like taking the thorn out of the lion's paw. He wouldn't attack unless provoked...
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    broodster?!

    Yesterday was the day my hen gave up her baby in order to sit on more eggs. After cheeping and running over to the brooding chicks, i decided since they were born on the same day the chicks could leave the brooder too. I have black breasted OEG rooster and hes been roosting on top of the brooder...
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    Poultry of Ponce, Puerto Rico

    Last month i went to Puerto Rico as a missionary. We worked in the barrios of Ponce (belgica) repairing houses. The streets there are littered with all sorts of bantams. Mixed breeds, pure breeds, everything. They didn't belong to anyone in particular, they just waltzed around the neighborhood...
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    UPDATE just an eye infection?

    I'm no stranger to eye scratches/infections. Ive had PLENTY of chickens go through them. What i was wondering, though, is what anyone thinks of this guy: I just got him from the store. He had no tail feathers but i knew he wasnt rumpless because i could see stubs of feathers down there...
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