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    Wanted LF with vulture hocks

    I need any breed, splash large fowl with vulture hocks for a breeding project. I can travel to AZ, NM, CO, west TX or west OK to pick up. Thanks!
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    Temperature-dependent sex-biased embryo mortality

    I've noticed that this year I'm hatching out a lot of cockerels. I'm also having trouble with my incubator holding the correct temperature so I wondered if there was any correlation between the two. Now, I know that many will say that your chances of hatching a cockerel vs a pullet or visa...
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    HELP! Injured chicken from dog attack

    Okay, so two dogs got into my coop two nights ago and killed everything except one hen and one 6 week old chick. The chick is doing fine, I treated it for shock and despite the loss of an eye and a back wound, it is eating and drinking on its own. It is getting antibiotics in the water and is...
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    Shipped Eggs taking longer to hatch?

    I couldn't find a thread that talks about shipped eggs exclusively, so I thought maybe some of us could share our experiences. I'm having a weird problem (at least weird for me) so maybe some of you experienced folks can help out. Last year, I let a broody hen hatch and raise all of my eggs...
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    1 week old chicks in trouble

    I decided to start a new thread, everyone is buying chicks, hatching eggs and I'm sure most could use some advice. My situation: Hatched a batch in the bator 4 1/2 weeks ago. 5 chicks. One started panting, lethargic, wouldn't eat or drink much without encouragement. Died 2 days later. I...
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    NPIP

    Does anyone know where the statistics for NPIP positive tests are? I'd like to know how many positive tests are reported per state in the US per year. Thanks in advance!
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    Red Butt

    I was running late tonight when I closed the chickens up for the night. I noticed that the rooster has a red butt, scaly looking...almost like a bad diaper rash. Could it be that he is getting too much "leftovers"? I changed the entire flock over to growers feed while the chicks were growing...
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    Heartbroken but still hopeful

    This morning when I went out to feed and water, I heard my broody hen (who has been sitting for exactly 18 days now on 10 eggs) moving around in her box and decided to check on her. She seemed very agitated, and since the eggs are due to hatch anytime, I figured she was feeling eggs moving...
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    Broody hen confused?

    Okay, I have a broody hen and she is partial to the second deck, second from the right nest box. I went to gather eggs the other night, and she had decided to move over to the first box on the right where the new eggs were laid. Do you think she might have been confused when coming back from...
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    Rooster dance

    I've looked everywhere, in all of my books and on the web, and I can't find anything about this dancing behavior that my rooster is exhibiting. Every now and then, I catch my rooster stomping his feet and turning in a very tight circle. He doesn't come after me when he does it, nor does he...
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    Raccoons

    So, we were having our well dug this week and the guys made a "creek" to send the water from the drilling down away from the drilling site. When I went out to see the drillers on Tuesday, one of them said that there are raccoon tracks in the mud and I might want to trap them to protect the...
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    Hello!

    I'm new to the forums and thanks for the welcome from everyone! I live in south central New Mexico, hot and dry weather and am having my second go at chickens. My first "flock" were rejects from my brother-in-law next door, they were too old for him and stopped laying so they became my pets...
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    Newbie...help please!!

    I had a few chickens that I inherited a few years ago and didn't replace them as they died off. About two weeks ago, I bought 7 chickens (6 hens, 1 rooster) from the FFA kid that won Grand Champion at the county fair. The problem is, I think one of the "hens" is a roo and I can't identify the...
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