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    Incubating for the first time. Day 13 questions.

    So, I'm hatching 8 Ameraucana eggs in a homemade (but not by me) bator. I'm on day 13 and I tried to candle the eggs tonight just to make sure they were fine. I couldn't really see anything except an air pocket and darkness. How can I tell if they are okay?
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    Broody gone bad

    So we tried hatching using a broody hen last year and it didn't work. It didn't work because she wasn't aggressive so I moved her, then she wouldn't sit on her eggs. Sadly all of her eggs ended up getting destroyed. This year we 41 more chickens and a second coop & enclosure. In this...
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    What's wrong with my girl?

    Hi friends, I have a black chick, she's about 14 weeks old. My daughter who is 6 usually feeds and waters the chicks & chickens (we have 61, I homeschool and I'm pregnant right now) SO, I didn't know that she wasn't really getting off the coop floor yesterday. So when I went in to check on...
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    Why aren't my chickens laying as much as they should?

    Hi BYC friends, I have 14 Rhode Island Red Pullets, 2 Plymouth Rock Pullets, and 1 California Leghorn Pullet. All of the RIR pullets hatched on September 11th last year but they aren't all laying 5-7 days a week. I actually don't know if all of them are even laying yet. The PR's lay about 5...
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    Our first egg got pecked!

    We got our first egg today, my daughter was SO excited. It seems someone pecked the bottom. Should we feed it back to the hens or throw it away? I've tried looking online, it seems everyone thinks differently...
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    Is my Rooster normal?

    That in itself sounds like an oxy-moron, but everything I've read about roosters has me concerned. I have a bunch of Rhode Island Red pullets and 1 ameraucana roo and he has been fine till last week. They were all hatched on Sept. 11th. My 5 year old daughter picks him up every day and 'man...
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    What kind of dog should I get for my backyard?

    My neighbor offered me her dog today because she's moving. She's a 2.5 year Cockapoo and I brought her out back after putting my chickens in their run to see what she might do and she darted at all the sides of my run and scared all my chickens into their coop. My question (after reading a...
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    Is it too early to tell if my Ameracana is a rooster?

    My little guy is 8 weeks old and I think he's a rooster. All my other chicks (also 8 weeks) are RIR so I have nothing to compare 'him' to. What do you think?
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    Please help, am I feeding my chicks enough?

    So I have 23 Rhode Island Red 8 week old pullet chicks and 1 Ameracauna roo. I was recently in the City Farmer's Nursery where the owner (who is a city farmer) told me that I should be feeding my chickens by putting their food in the grass so they stay good foragers since they free range all...
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    My husband calls me "Mother Hen"

    I just got 27 day old chicks on Thursday morning. I haven't had chicks since I was 10, that was a couple decades ago! We had 26 Rhode Island Reds and 1 Ameracuna. On Friday I saw one RIR was pasted up so I cleaned her, but she didn't seem okay. I moved her into her own box in case it was...
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