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    Is this lice or mites?

    I thought my hen was going through a molt (I'm a newer chicken keeper) but now I am suspicious it's a bug. I think I found a llice (louse?) on one of my silkies but I can't find live bugs on any of my chickens and she is the only one that is losing feathers/bald spots. Does this look like...
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    Flock integration-what is this Roo doing??

    My mom is starting her first flock. She bought a trio of Gold Wyandottes that are about 6 months old and then from another man she bought 1 Barnvelder hen that is about 7 months old. It has been a couple of weeks now that she has integrated them all together, but the Barnvelder seems to run...
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    Help! Who is laying this egg?

    I have 2 Buff Oprington, 1 black Marans, 1 Welsummer and 2 Silver Seabrights. All pullets. The Seabrights are around 25 weeks and all the others are around 25-28 weeks. I got our very first egg last week. Yay!! Since then I have had 1 egg per day. Today I got 2! The first around 3pm and...
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    Silkie chick-cockerel or pullet?

    What do you think? I am thinking possibly pullet. Chick is about 9 days old
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    Meet Dorothy (columbian silkie)

    The only 1 of 6 fertile eggs to hatch. I broke open the other eggs after day 26 with no babies and found 2 almost fully developed chicks that had died :( This was my first hatching. Now with only 1 chick I am buying 2 more from a local lady here so Dorothy isn't lonely. She's so tiny...
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    How to tell if your chick is shrinkwrapped

    Hi all! How can you tell if the membranes are shrinkwrapped on an eggie that is zipped? This is my first time and my first egg is zipped at 6am and I noticed no progress, and that the membrane almost looks...dry? Or is that how it's supposed to look? I upped my humidity. I admit I took out...
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    Chick is peeping like crazy in bator...but no pipping?

    My chick is peeping like crazy but no pipping yet? Could it be in distress? Is there something I should do? The humidity is at 63% and has been. Is that normal? Today is Day 20 or 21. I took out 2 eggs today that never developed because I noticed a smell so I candled the two and sure...
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    Set eggs 05/25/12 Anyone want to wait with me?

    Hi all! I just set my second batch of eggies on May 25. Anyone want to join me? I have 7 eggs. They are silkiexShowgirl. I'm so excited! I candled them today and 3 of them had definite movement with veins and the others had veins but no movement and 1 was not fertile at all. I'm leaving...
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    Candeling on day 18-also humidity question

    This is my first time incubating. I candled some of my eggs today and there is stuff floating around in 1 of them and the others look as if they stopped developing. I'm going to leave them in until day 21 for sure but I think they aren't going to make it. I've had the humidity around 50-70...
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    Darn it...adding new eggs to already set eggs

    I'm a newbie and made a mistake. I have 6 silkie showgirl eggs (that were very expensive) that should arrive today. I have 14 polish eggs currently on day 11 in my bator now. When it comes to lock down, I didn't realize I would still have to open the bator to turn these other 6 eggs. :( Can...
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    HELP! Bacteria ''spots'' while candeling

    Hi there! I am incubating my first set of eggs. I have 14 Polish eggs. They are on day 11 of incubation and I decided to candle them today. All of them have the bacteria ''spots'' all over them! Some are empty and a few have what looks like a floating yoke or dark spot. What causes the...
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    How long can eggs last before incubation?

    I ordered some Polish hatching eggs and I think there was a communication error. I asked them to be shipped a certain date because I was going to be out of town...well I came home to the eggs on my front porch :( It says they were mailed May 9 and I didn't get them until now, May 13. I have...
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    My chick was pecked :(

    I have 3 Buff Orpington chicks, 1 Marans chick, 1 Welsummer chick and then 2 adult silkies. We had a really brutal storm one night and the next morning I went out to check my chickens and one of the Buff Orpington chicks had a huge, deep wound on the back of his neck. I noticed blood on...
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    Marans-boy or girl?

    I am thinking this is a boy, but I honestly have no experience with this so I wanted to ask you all! We call him/her Cocoa
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    Buff Orp and Welsummer-pullets or cockerels?

    I'm very new to chickens. This is our Welsummer chick. Do you think it's a pullet? and then this is one of our Buff Orpingtons, this one looks different from our other 2, so I figured this was either a pullet or cockerel and the other 2 were the opposite. Haha!
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    Roo or Hen? Silkie.

    I bought 2 silkies that were supposed to be hens. They are not old enough to lay yet. 1 I am pretty sure if a Hen but the other one started crowing so we swapped him out for another and that one started crowing. Now we are on our third one and not sure if it's a hen or roo. What do you...
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