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    Keep with broody or put in bator?

    Everytime i check on my broody shes off the eggs i bought. I paid $40 i dont wsnt them to waste. I gave them to her last night. This is her second batch she went a month between and hatched the last batch. Do i just pull out my incubator and put them in? This is my incubator. Any tricks or...
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    Fertle eggs vs bad eggs

    So i got a good deal on ccl (crest cream legbar) eggs. Most i know look good as i see air pockets (turns out having tortises lay eggs as a kid taught me alot about eggs) anyways there are 3 ccl eggs that are in question. I dont see air pockets. And then the guy gave me an olive egger from a ccl...
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    Socal Looking for eggs for my broody hen

    Im looking for eggs for my broody hen. Im not too picky tho id LOVE some polish, crested cream legbar or lavendar orpingtons. Im in west covina id prefer to pick them up. Willing to drive about 100 miles. Doesnt have to be pure bred.
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    Broody grey andulision

    I noticed my andulision was broody. Got her a dozen hopefully fertile eggs. I didnt check them as i dont know how. She has been sitting on them since sunday night when i moved her to a dog crate with food and water and space for her to get up and poop and strech her legs. Shes also sitting on...
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    Lice and leg mites

    I picked up one of my birds today. Shes a new layer as in less than a week she started. She was walking funny. I looked at her skin she has the lice the brown or yellow type not the red mites (thank god) *knock on wood* we have had this problem once before so ill buy frontline. I have to have...
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    ⠀ Given broiler growing feed for chicks that will lay

    Twice now i have ordered from my local feed store grower feed. Last time i told them not the chick mash but the step up before the lay crumble. I didnt think anything of it and fed my 14 that were hatched around december and earlier a 50 pound bag...as i was throwing the bag away i noticed it...
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    Chicken took a midnight stroll?

    What would cause a chicken to be up and about at night? It was time to let the dogs out to go potty before bed. I was nervious cuz the dog next door was barking. But im like eh the dogs pen is 6 feet high and 2 feet deep with cement around. So i turned on the flood lights and let the dogs out...
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    need a crash course in geese.

    My mom calls me a chicken addict. Im layong on the couch and get a random text from her while shes at work. She tells me she wants geese. I know you dont have to have a male to have the geese lay eggs. But thats about all i know. Can anyone give me a crash course? Can they eat the same food as...
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    What breed is my roo

    Hes a special needs one. His knee joints didnt form right instead of walking straight he walks with his legs bent like this 《 》he waddles when he walks lol.
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    Questions on two chicks

    I was wonder what breed my roo chick is. And what breed this white chick is. She was ny favorite. A hawk got to her. I still have my roo chick. I had ordered 18 chicks from a hatchery. A hawk killed 9 including my fluffay the white chick.
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    looking for cream legbar chicks and lavandar buff orpington chicks

    Im hoping to try my hand at breeding. I have a chick roo cream legbar (had an adult i paid $80 for and she up and died suddenly guy bought her from was like sorry) anyways i need a couple female chicks of this breed. As well as lavandar buff orpingtons. I want a roo chick and at least two female...
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    HAWKS HAVE KILLED 12 CHICKENS

    Hawks keep killing my chickens. Weds i discoved a horrible scene 4 dead chicks and one i had to put down from a broke leg puctured threw the skin. Thats 5 chicks. Thursday i had 2 mpre dead chicks. Same thing froday. Threw this hole thing i was putting up tarps galor to stop it from flying in...
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    HAWK HAS KILLED AGAIN

    I found 4 horribly torn up chicks yesterday in my coop i had saw a hawk fly away when i went up. I then had to put down my first chick/chicken as well as it had a broken leg with the bone sticking threw the leg. We put up some tarps to cover the space but there were still gaps (had a family...
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    18 new chicks comin

    I ordered 18 baby chicks from a hatchery here in cali. they will hatch the 25th of this month and come one to two days later in the mail. my question is it it safe to leave them outside in a pen with 6 other chicks. they are about 2 months old. i live in west covina cali so its been warm. and...
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    bloody ear? *pixs*

    my smallest chicken which is a white leg horn has a bloody ear. Idk how it happen. I noticed it when putting away my chickens at night. Its slightly swollen. Btw her feet look funny becuz she had a cut so i sprayed blue kote on her feet. Also not sure why shes all raggity looking shes been that...
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    possible roosters?

    So the week before Easter we were buying chicken feed at our local feed store and saw they had bantams. We already had one bantam at home whos three bantam friends died one by one for no reason ( very mad since we drove a total of four hours and paid like $200 for a total of four birds that only...
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    hissing noise when pooping, chicken with bone showing on foot.

    So one of my very first chickens was sick. Shes about two years old. She had that nasty vent glee. I treated her and she went back up with her buddies. Now i was putting my chickens away earlier and noticed she makes like a hissing noise...or like air is escaping when she poops. What causes...
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    3 dead bantams. 1 bantam left now.

    so i was looking for bantam chickens awhile ago and came across a guy in san diego who breeds bantams. he was having a special so off we went on a two hour drive about back in February. not long after we got them one of them died. i know at the time we got them one of the chickens was laying...
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    feather loss on a couple chickens possible moulting? with pictures

    I'm about 50% sure a couple of my chickens are moulting. but I'm not positive. i just want to double check that my girls aren't sick. i can take pictures if need be. but ill describe it. one of my chickens is a Easter egger. her feathers on her back are all ruffled and falling off. we have a red...
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    found & caught a baby opposom in our coop...how do i prevent?

    so tonight i went to put away our chickens (they like to sit on top of there dog pen instead of going inside it and yes i know they need a coop we've been tight on money and seem to do just fine in the extra large metal Kong dog crate) anyways when i opened the gate to there pen my flashlight...
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