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    Soft leathery empty shell

    I found this in one of my nesting boxes. Its empty, flattened and feels very leathery. I was thinking soft shell egg but not sure. Any idea whats wrong here? I only have 2 layers and they eat layer crumble and oyster shell and are free range during the day.
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    2 day old with leg issue... help!

    One of my chicks hatched 2 days ago and is having difficulty using it's left leg. It can move its toes and leg, but can't use it to stand. It gets around scooting and when startled it starts doing circles because the one leg isn't working properly. It does most of it's time sleeping. Is there...
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    Video of our first chick hatch!

    Hope you enjoy it!! We did!
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    Umbilical Cord attached to egg

    The umbilical cord is still attached to the egg after 2 hours of hatch. Can I remove the cord from the shell or leave it. Poor chick is dragging around more than half the egg shell and is exhausted.
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    When to lockdown when age unknown?

    I'm not sure what age these eggs are because I was going to let the hen hatch them out. Since she has been eatting the eggs, I brought the remaining 2 into my incubator, but don't exactly know when I should start lockdown. I know day 18, but I don't know what day they are at right now.
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    Help! Broody Hen ate 10+ day old egg

    I have a hen whose been sitting on 4 eggs for some time now. One egg went missing. Today I went to check the eggs and another was missing. I noticed the hen pecking at something out in the pen and it was a bloody egg shell, she was eatting it. It took some effort to get the egg up and out of the...
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    How old do you think these eggs are?

    I didn't really catch the date of when these chickens started incubating under momma hen, so I don't know how far along they are. Not sure if you can tell, but can anyone tell about how old these 2 eggs are in this video I put together? Thanks!!!
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    help! Bloody crack on fertile egg

    One of my chickens eggs fell from the nesting box (didn't have ledge high enough, but I fixed that now). It is cracked but the crack is red (blood) with a small section that looks like blood seaped out and smeared on the egg. I just candled the egg and the chick is still moving around. Do I...
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    Lil Miss Broody question

    I have a black cochin hen who started, not too long ago, to lay one brown egg a day. She refused to sit on any of them, which is ok because we want to eat the eggs mostly. About a week and a half ago, she started laying on the eggs and won't get off except to eat a bit and go back to keeping the...
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    HELP! Chickens dieing and sick!

    We have chickens that are about 5 months old, we got them in August. In October we got baby silkie chicks from some people. Not too long after we got them, one just died and at the same time another seemed to play opposom. I thought it was dead but it got up, went down again and got back up and...
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    Missing baby silkie chick

    I didn't know which section to put this in, but it is a baby. My son went into the chicken pen last night to put the older chickens in the coop and gather the babies up to bring them inside for the night. For some reason, he left the door open to the pen and one of the silkie chicks went...
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    unknown color of silkie

    I recently got silkie chickens and one is colored differently and I'm not sure what it would be called. I googled and couldn't find anything. It's supposed to be a black silkie, BUT it has reddish, like auburn feathers as well, really pretty. I was thinking splash maybe, but I've only seen white...
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    silkie chicks- one dead, one acting dead?

    I have 4 silkie chicks and 2 young silkies. Right now I have them in a big rabbit cage for quarentine and because my other roosted doesn't like the silkies. So I went to let the silkies out of the cage (they are only in there at night) and I found two dead chicks. The other silkies were all...
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    Aggressive young silkies

    I just got 6 young silkies the other day!!! 4 of them are 4 week old lil ones and 2 are about 10 weeks old or so. Since they are the same size/age as my other young chickens, I put them in the run together to see how they would get along. At first they were great and were all eating together...
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    WTB Baby Silkie Chicks OH

    Looking for just a couple baby silkie chicks in Ohio. The younger the better Would prefer at least one hen, but unsexed is ok. I'd prefer to pick them up, but shipping is fine if it's not too much.
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    Day 23 having doubts...

    This is my first time hatching eggs and these last few days have been an emotional rollercoaster. Today is day 23. I started with 8 eggs and only 1 made it to lock down Day 19 I saw some tiny cracks, but not all the way through (wondering if it's just a shell mark and I want it to be a crack...
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    How old are these chicks?

    Anyone know about how old these chicks might be? Their baby photo in each bottom corner was taken on Aug. 20th and the older photo of them were taken Sept. 20th. Trying to figure out when they may start laying eggs (and if they are even all hens lol) Thanks!!
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    Blood Rings?

    I'm new to hatching my own eggs. First time. I have 8 silkie chicks incubating right now! I am so excited!! Anyhow, I candled them this morning (day 7) and 2 of the eggs seem to have blood rings, but I'm not completely sure because the brown eggs are hard to see thru. The other eggs I can see...
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