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    Chicken with a growth in his mouth

    I have a little bantam rooster that has sounds a bit gooey when he breathes and the other day we discovered a big lump in his mouth. The brown bit, I think, was where he tried to eat and scraped the lump. He's been on an antibiotic for a couple of days and that's not helping at all. Any...
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    Broken egg in the middle of a hatch

    So I have three lovely new chicks that just hatched this morning. I have a fourth that is now in the process of hatching but the three rambunctious chicks broke a bad egg and there is sludge all in the bottom of the incubator. Should I wait until the fourth chick hatches then take everything out...
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    Crushed shell with live (but possibly too young) chick?

    I came out this morning to find my two female banties had hatched three chicks so far. One shell was partially crushed but I heard peeping from it so i helped the little thing out. Part of the membrane had dried to the chick and it was wiggling around, etc. I stuck it under one of the hens but I...
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    Store mistake?

    Agway sold me this chick as a Rhode Island Red. I'm new to chickens but I know this baby isn't turning red! Can anyone tell me what type of chicken this might be? She and her sister are a bit bigger and a little more aggressive than the other breeds as well.
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    New from New York

    My name is Janet and I live in a small country town in NY. I have a husband and four daughters. My husband and I (more me than him) are working on having a little homestead to help not only cut the cost of food down for our large family, but also to KNOW what is in what we're eating. Right now...
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