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  1. Crippledturkey

    50 Layers, 5 eggs today

    I have a little over 50 layers, a mixture of brown layers, olive eggers, and 3 silkie hens, in 3 different pens. They are fed with a standard layer pellet ration, cracked corn for winter, household scraps, and bread store rejects. The bread keeps costs down, and is a dietary treat and not a...
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    Yay!!! New hatch

    Yay have some new baby chicks, one question, how long can they stay in the incubator before they to the brooder with 2 day old chicks? I posted this one trying to be upbeat compared to my last post, thinking an upbeat post would garner more replies to the most crucial questions than a...
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    Emergency: 2 day olds pecking just hatched. How long can I leave then in the bator?

    I have a staggered hatch going on. The 2 day old chicks are pecking the just hatched ones. I have never seen this and have mixed week old hatchery chicks from the FS with day olds with no problems. Here in Missouri right now the humidity is so high even with a dry incubator the humidity is off...
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    Pics of todays hatch so far.

    I many not ask a lot of questions, but I read a lot and just wanted to say thanks for all of your posts with a few pics of olive egger hybrids that I am hatching out today. Have 12 in the brooder now with 12 hatching left a rocking and a rolling, a pipping and a zipping, out of 27 eggs, which is...
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    Is this a boy or a girl?

    It is an EE mixed with a copper marans that I hatched out in an incubator, it has feathered legs and is about 2 months old. My only question is if she is a boy or a girl. Thank you.
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    5 day old chick attacking?

    I hatched 8 chicks, and all are quite friendly, however one whenever I go to change the water or food, one pecks at my finger and kicks up at me like it is a much larger chicken. I pick it up and let it stand on my palm and tell it what bad baby it is and it goes for the whiskers of my beard...
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    First hatch, one was shrinkwrapped

    One of my chicks was shrinkwrapped, I helped it this morning, it got out of it's shell, but had membrane over one eye and shards of shell stuck to it here and there. It was still in the bator and I took it to the sink and dabbed warm water on it's eye and got that piece of membrane off of it and...
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    My first hatch, thank you guys (Pics)

    I set 11 eggs for my first time incubating, and I have had an awesome hatch, 9 out of 11 are so far alive and 7 are in the brooder. The other two did not hatch yet as they were not due to hatch until tomorrow. I am grateful to you all for posting on here you questions and ansering them, as I was...
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    Hatching on 19th day, when to help?

    I have several eggs today on their 19th day with pips and they r peeping loudly and has been since 11 o clock lastnight. One has a large dime size hole, the others have just a nick in them. They r chicken eggs. Is it going normal or should I help them, 12 hours seems a long time?? Thank you.
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    Killed in the line of duty by a fat turkey and the lessons learned.

    I went out to do an egg check around 300pm had 3 hens on the nest boxes including a real pretty golden EE hen, I collected the eggs (30 of em) and let the last 3 layers rest. Of course the gold one would mangle your hand if ya tried to lift up her skirt, so I let her be as she was screaching at...
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    Set my first eggs today

    I only am doing a dozen to see how it goes for my first run, I do not to waste too much life if that makes sense. Wish me luck.
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    OMG I almost killed my chickens today.

    If ya hear them tell it that is. At about 3:15 today i was walking around run piddling around and this wave of chickens and turkeys come at me, they are pushing each other into the fence, and squaking and just following me around as a mass wave of feathers, kinda creeping me out. So they are...
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    So um yeah, collecting your own eggs for hatching.

    I now feel bad for laughing from another section of this board about someone who was concerned that their hens right breast seemed larger after they ate, we are all new at something right? So tuesday I am buying an incubator and wish to hatch from my own flock. (I read a lot about hatching your...
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    Can you harvest a bird with Dry Fowl Pox?

    I was just wondering want to dress out a couple of turkeys for TG and they have dry pox. Would apreciate your views on this. thanks.
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    Finally after 7 months, one of EE's starts working. PICTURE

    Well most of the hens have been laying for 2 months now, except for the EE's. My dad went out to the coup to visit the chickens the other day and he came up to me and was all like one of your bearded chickens is on a nest. So I go out there and this one was comfy on a nest and as I approached...
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    Small coon in coop tonight, r they dangerous?

    The chickens were making a rukkous tonight and I went out to the coop and covered run and noticed 3 hens out in the run with a few of the turkeys. Went in to the coup to do a head count and heard some movement in the rafters, and spotted a raccoon, it was a small one and I cracked him in the...
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    EE, is she ready yet?

    I have a few EE's who I bought as americaunas from a feed store back in April, and not a one has laid yet. I posted a pic of one of the hens, I know the date is off on the pic, but had a battery mishap LOL. My question is, are they ready yet they hall have a pale peacomb and pale face compared...
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    Horrible screaching tonight

    I was listening to music rather loud just a half hour ago. Between songs in the quiet between the two, I hear a loud "Screaching" along with sounds of roosters crowing and a turkey gobbling, and blood curdling food talk. You all know the sound of a chicken who finds some good food to let the...
  19. Crippledturkey

    What kind is this please?

    This rooster washed in when it flooded down here this easter and he decided to hang around. Was wondering what kind of rooster he is. He stays outside the run with a couple of other brats bought just for him lol. Thank you.
  20. Crippledturkey

    Once a timid hen, now my best friend.

    I have 4 Bronze hens. They will all come up to you at feeding or even at a visit, yet if ya try to pet them they take off running. Over the past few days one hen, the smallest of them all has been drooping her wings, and when I go into the run to feed them and the chickens, she will come in...
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