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    Fertilizing Pekin Eggs

    I have a flock of four bantam pekin/cochin hens and one rooster. They're a fluffy breed. A Christmas present from my grandparents from two years ago. Three of them just went through being broody and sat for two months before they kicked out all their eggs and I bathed them to get them off the...
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    Breeds for me and my grandparents

    I'm looking to expand my flock from 3 chickens to about 6 or 7 chickens. My grandparents are also very interested in getting chickens of their own. We just need to decide on a breed. The problem I have is two of my chickens are bantams, and I was looking more for a full size egg laying breed...
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    My chicken is pecking its mum! Her comb is bleeding!

    Just when I thought they'd all get along well. I have a young ancona bantam chicken who has just started laying (well she's been laying for about a month). A broody hen of mine hatched and raised her, and she was eventually accepted into the flock. Full thread on this here -...
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    My friend hatched a duckling

    It started a month ago when my friend (we met in university and keep in contact through Facebook) found an egg on her porch and started incubating it. On her Facebook she reported its progress. A couple of days ago it hatched, and now she has a baby wood duck (named Basil). Although she loves...
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    Unsticking a chick - Did I do the right thing?

    I'm just a bit concerned. Recently we hatched a fertile egg under a broody hen, so now we have a mother chicken (bantam cochin) and a baby that is about a week and a half old (bantam ancona). Just this afternoon, I went outside to check on them and I saw the baby underneath the mum cheeping...
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    My chicken is a bully

    Maybe I made a bad problem worse. I have 4 chickens right now. One is a broody pekin, two are isabrowns and one is a little bantam belgian duccle. A couple of months ago we managed to "save" one of the isabrowns from internal laying, but ever since we did that, she's become really aggressive...
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    First time hatching eggs with broody hen

    I bought half a dozen ancona bantam eggs today to place under my broody pekin. She took them no trouble, however this is my first time trying this and I'm still really concerned about some things that happened with the fertile eggs today. Shortly after we put the eggs there, another chicken...
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    Do I bath a broody hen?

    I have a pekin bantam hen (Birchey) who has just gone on the brood, and we were thinking of getting some fertile eggs for her (because fertile eggs are much cheaper than bantam pullets). I think she'd make a good mother, it's just she's the dirtiest chicken in the flock. Birchey suffers from...
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    Hen has huge swollen bulge between legs

    I have a buff coloured isabrown chicken that has been sick for about 2 months now. Her symptoms are: She is MUCH heavier than the other chickens (and heavier than she usually is) There is an enormous swollen bulge at the back of her abdomen, on her underside, between the legs - this prevents...
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