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  1. kburen

    Hatching question

    Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've been around but I'm back with questions! I'm hatching some chicks in my classroom. We got set up with our local 4-H group. Today is day 19 and we went to take them off the turner this morning (I was told it would be better to take them off at day 19...
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    Did I get what I was told?

    I was told she's a year and a half old Polish hen. Is this true? She's beautiful no matter what she is....I love her head feathers, they just don't look like most Polish head feathers that I've seen. Doesn't really "matter" what she is....Just wondering how truthful people are! :) And I...
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    Just want to be sure I'm using correct terms....

    Check out this add for me and let me know.....Easter Egger even though he's calling them Ameraucana? http://richmond.craigslist.org/grd/2789580635.html I know usually they are Easter Egger and that's fine....I have some now and want to add to the flock. Just want to be sure I'M calling them...
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    Game cam question

    Figured this is the best place to ask.....My husband and I both have an interest in seeing what creatures hang out in the empty field by our house at night....What is a good game cam that I can get for $100 or less?
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    Loss of feathers...

    Not sure if this is the correct place or not to post and I apologize if it is not. All of my chickens who have been together for their 10 months of life are now missing feathers right at their tail/butt. I THINK it's the fact that I have 2 roosters and there were only 3 females to begin...
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    Question...

    Not sure which section to put this under, but I guess it goes under "behavior". I'm in VA where we had the 5.8 earthquake today. My chickens hid under a tree when it hit and still haven't wondered out or made any noise since then (and I usually hear happy crows all day long off and on). Is...
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    Whacha think?

    I know that 4 weeks is early to tell the sex of an EE, but I'm wondering what everyone thinks at this point. This is the baby that I saved (was shrink wrapped to the shell, I managed to get the shell off after several warm baths and now I'm kinda attached!) Here's a group shot where you...
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    question Pic added!

    One of the chicks that I hatched was slightly shrink-wrapped. I was able to wet it with warm water and pick off the shell and some more membrane. It's been back in the incubator since yesterday afternoon. It's fluffed out in some spots, but I can tell that it's still got membrane on it in...
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    Eating eggs?

    I think my chickens have started eating their eggs I was getting 2-3 eggs a day from my 3 hens for about 3 weeks. Then they kicked all of the shavings out of the nest box so the eggs were cracking when they layed them....Now we're getting NO eggs and we found a piece of a shell in the coop...
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    Fertility question...

    About how long is it after a hen starts laying before the eggs are fertile? I have 3 hens and 2 roosters. My hens have been laying for about a month now. I have a friend at work who wants some chicks so I told her I'd try to hatch some for her....We only have about 5 weeks left in school so I...
  11. kburen

    Wow!

    Ok, so I feel like a terrible Mommy but......We finally got our kids into their coop (they are just under 6 months). I know, I know...a lot later than they needed to be, but they are there now with lots of room. Anyway.....I've always just kind of glanced at the food and water while they were...
  12. kburen

    Yay!

    I have the start of my coop My poor babies are getting too tall for their box on my back porch. My Fiance had a friend of his come help him get started this weekend. So far, the cost has been FREE! When I moved in 5 years ago the concrete slab was already there. Previous to this weekend my...
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    7 week old feed question

    My babies are just over 7 weeks old now and almost out of medicated feed. I know they should go from medicated to grower feed, but my feed store doesn't have grower. My options are to leave them on medicated crumble, switch them to layer pellets (which I can always smack with a hammer and...
  14. kburen

    Purring?

    For those who don't know, I have 5 EE babies, 1 confirmed roo who are about 6.5 weeks old now. They seem to "purr" a lot. What does it mean?
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    Sex question...*UPDATE*

    From what I've read on here, 4 weeks is way too early to tell the sex of EEs, but I have a question. Of my 5 EE babies, one of them has a comb that is at least double the size of the other 4 and is starting to get little nubbs on the inside of its legs. Could this be the breeds that it's mixed...
  16. kburen

    My babies 2 week (w/ pics) :)

    I got my babies on the 13th from Monkeyingaroundfarm. :-) I lost 2 (a NN didn't make it through shipping and a blue maran died after 2 days), but have 5 beautiful frizzle EEs!! I love that they change so much from day to day! I started with 3 fluffy yellow fuzzbutts and 2 black with a big...
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    Moving shipped chicks into brooder question

    Waiting on a call from the post office to go pick up my chicks.....But just thought of something. It's never been mentioned so I assume it's okay.....Is it okay to take shipped chicks and put them directly into a 95 degree brooder? I know it can cause harm to people if you warm them up too...
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    Advice on a chick....

    Well, only one of my chicks even tried to hatch. It made 2 pips and that was it. After 2 1/2 days, I knew it was still breathing (I could see through the hole that it pipped and could hear it chirp), so I decided to help it out. This was on Day 25 (last night around 5). I got it out without...
  19. kburen

    Yay! *happy dance*

    If you've read any of my past posts, I've had a rough go of my attempt to hatch my (probably) EE babies. Yesterday around 5:30 PM was the start of Day 21. I didn't have any action, although after coming home from dinner while we were checking the temperature, my Fiance insisted that one of the...
  20. kburen

    YAY! And question...

    So, my fiance decided that I needed a better flashlight to candle with...So we got a maglite last night and taped a toilet paper roll to the top of it. Works much better than what I had! We started with 16 shipped eggs, 5 busted so 11 made it to the 'bator. I didn't think any were developing...
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