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    Deads chickens. Now what?

    Good morning. I walk to open the coop this morning and found one of my adult (1 1/2 years old)Buff Brahmas dead. It looked like she had flown out of the coop too fast and smashed into the side of the screened in run. (she's upside down so you can see her. No apparent injuries but from feel...
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    Pheasants

    My dad is hatching pheasants for the first time and they have all started to pip. The catch is that he realized that he misread the instructions and had them small side up. They are now out of the egg turner and flat on the bottom of the incubator. The chicks are peeping. Is there anything we...
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    Nerf bullet

    Okay, this may not seem like an emergency but I don't know if I need to do something asap so the chicken doesn't die: one of our chickens snatched a nerf bullet when it was fired and swallowed it whole. Will this kill her? Will she pass it? Any guidance would be appreciated.
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    Culling my roosters

    I am trying to decide which roosters to cull because of my 23 chicken and 3 chick flock, 5 are roosters. I have two Polish mixes - one has successfully mated and produced 2 chicks but has a little bit of a gimp because he messed with the broody mama and got his butt handed to him. The second...
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    Cracked egg

    So I have a broody hen who has been sitting on her eggs for 15 days now. Today when she got up for her daily poop/water run I went in and checked the eggs. One was out of the next, one had a small crack in it and the other two appear fine. Now she has been an awesome hatcher and broody mama in...
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    Natural Hatch Rates

    My broody hen just successfully hatched 9 out of 12 eggs. One died (stepped on maybe) but it only got half way out of the shell. The other two are still under her but when I held a flashlight up to them I didn't see anything (although not sure what I am looking for) so I am giving them another...
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    How long can Mama be away from the babies

    My broody Mama hen has almost finished hatching her eggs. If I remove her for 30 minutes or so (I need to wash her for lice) can I then return her to the bin without her losing her mama-ing wants? i.e. will she still play mama hen or will that snap her out of it? Will the babies (with a heat...
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    New Chicks and Lice

    Hello Everyone. Today is our "hatching day" i.e. the eggs we put under our broody hen should hatch. I can see 3 so far (out of 12) horray. In peeking in on them, I see that my broody hen is infested with lice! We go the natural route so last time we saw this, we washed our chickens by hand...
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    New Eggs and Lice

    Hello Everyone. Today is our "hatching day" i.e. the eggs we put under our broody hen should hatch. I can see 3 so far (out of 12) horray. In peeking in on them, I see that my broody hen is infested with lice! We go the natural route so last time we saw this, we washed our chickens by hand...
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    Broody hen and pecking

    So last fall, we had a hen go broody. We put a hatching egg under her (from a friend as we had no rooster). Baby hatched, mama took care of her and she is now part of the flock. 10 days ago we added a rooster. Yesterday our mama hen went broody. I brought her inside for the night because she...
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    Roosters and Baby chicks

    So last fall, we had a hen go broody. We put a hatching egg under her (from a friend as we had no rooster). Baby hatched, mama took care of her and she is now part of the flock. 10 days ago we added a rooster. Yesterday our mama hen went broody. I brought her inside for the night because she...
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    Adding a Rooster

    I am looking to add a rooster (9-10 month old) to my flock of 12 girls (ranging from 6 months to 2 years old) and have one lined up. I know that I am supposed to keep it separate from the rest of the flock for at least 3 days. Here is my question: where the heck do you guys keep it? We only...
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    New Chick

    I am a little new to eggs. Our Black Jersey Giant went broody and so I bought a fertilized egg from a friend and stuck it under her (in the coop). Well it hatched this monring! I put out fresh water and starter for them. The BJG is the dominant chicken in my flock but she doesn't peck at me when...
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    Hatched egg, now what?

    Hello! I am a little new to eggs. Our Jersey Giant went broody and so I bought a fertilized egg from a friend and stuck it under her (in the coop). Well it hatched this monring! I put out fresh water and starter for them. The Black Jersy Giant is the dominant chicken in my flock but she...
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