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  1. TexGardenGirl

    Strange blob inside egg

    This morning I found this blob in an egg. The rest of the egg was fine. I’ve found some odd things over the years but this is the weirdest I’ve seen. The picture with the egg in a cup is for scale.
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    What is this color pattern called?

    This is my Naked Neck cockerel. He's about 5 months old and came to us as a packing peanut from Ideal Poultry. His red brothers have all gone to freezer camp but this one has such pretty markings I am waiting to see if I can use him to breed some birds for fly tying use. (I fly fish and tie my...
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    peck wounds on day old keet - PHOTOS

    This is a dual post - I put it in the Emergencies section and got no responses and realized it may be because all the guinea people are here instead. This little keet hatched yesterday afternoon and was with chicken momma, 3 other keets and 3 chicks. It is the youngest, one more hatched this...
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    peck wounds on day old keet - PHOTOS

    This little keet hatched yesterday afternoon and was with chicken momma, 3 other keets and 3 chicks. It is the youngest, one more hatched this morning but is bigger, and the others hatched as early as 4 days ago. I went out to check on them about an hour ago and found her with a bloody neck...
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    Lost 2 hens in 8 days - necropsy !!GRAPHIC PICS!!

    8 days ago I found a hen dead on the floor of the coop first thing in the morning. No signs of injury, though her comb was slightly bloody (figured it could have been the others pecking curiously or just the ants who were already going to work on her.) She hadn't been acting sick or strange, and...
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    when to put guinea and chicken eggs under a broody hen?

    I know I've seen this discussed, but I can't find it now, and I've searched for literally several hours... Anyway, I know the standard figures for incubation time are 21 days for chickens and 28 days for guineas, and I know that chickens often hatch a day or two early under a broody, but...
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    Does anyone sell guinea eggs for food? Not hatching eggs...

    Just curious - I haven't seen anyone talk about it and I tried to search but didn't find anything. If this has been discussed please point me to the thread... Some of our egg customers (my husband's co-workers, mainly) have expressed curiosity/interest in the guinea eggs. One of them has eaten...
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    Guinea eggs - mmm-mmm good!

    Our guineas just started laying last weekend, so this morning we finally had accumulated 6 eggs (from 3 hens) and did the taste test. Wow, they are good! The yolks are as big as a chicken egg, so there's a lot less white, and the yolks are even more orange than our free-range chickens are (could...
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    Dumb Question - when to start layer feed?

    I know, this has been addressed a million times. But when I go looking for it I can't find anything directly addressing my current situation. I have 5 hens almost 2 yrs old (plus their roo). I also have 21 younger birds - mixed male & female, chickens & guineas - who are 21 weeks old. They...
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    Guinea fowl eggs for people with chicken egg allergies

    Anyone out there have allergy to chicken eggs and tried guinea eggs? I've been trying to research and not finding much info. My mom found out she was allergic to eggs a few weeks before my chickens started laying last year. (Very sad - I really wanted to share her grand-chickens' eggs with her.)...
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    Will chickens learn bad habits from guineas?

    So I've got one flock of 10 chickens (9 hens + 1 roo) that are about 1 1/2 years old. They free range on our 2 acres and so far no problems. (We did lose a few to hawks and/or raccoons, but that's when they were much younger and still penned in the electro-net fence. Since being fully free-range...
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    Sell me on your favorite layer breed(s)!!

    I was going to title this: Choosing layer breed for reason other than egg size? I'm interested in hearing what the reasons might be for choosing a breed that does not produce large eggs (or at least medium) if you are going to be selling at all, even small-scale. My reason for asking is this...
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    Frieda the wonder-chicken!!

    So this bird was named Fraidy until a few weeks ago because she was so skittish. She's really tiny and the adult hens pick on her, so I always try to make sure she gets some scratch at treat time. I had just gotten her to start eating out of my hand, when one day she decides to jump up (a foot...
  14. TexGardenGirl

    Neck Tumors *GRAPHIC NECROPSY PICS*

    Yesterday my 14-wk old cockerel suddenly seemed a little listless and unkempt, but still moving, drinking well and eating a little scratch. He was walking around the pen and scratching some at the leaves, but not as enthusiastic as usual. He let me catch him pretty easily (not normal), and I...
  15. TexGardenGirl

    fowl pox in chicks?

    Does anyone know if fowl pox is more serious in chicks than adults? And if so, how bad? I've been researching and all I seem to find out is that they can be vaccinated, but nothing about the course of the disease if they get it. I have a small flock of 10 hens, 2 roos, and 4 11-day-old chicks...
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    What is this color/pattern?

    I have two Easter Eggers (so-called Ameraucana from a hatchery) and I can't figure out what to call their coloration. I'm hatching some eggs and I've been playing around with the chicken calculator trying to figure out what kind of babies to look for. (Daddy is a Production Red) Any idea of...
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    Anyone got Catalana pics?!?

    I just finished my page for the BYC breed database, but I don't have pictures of a rooster or adolescent (because I only have hens, and somehow got pictures of most of my breeds as adolescents, but not the Catalanas). If anyone has some, or knows of some (copyright-free, of course) please let me...
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    When should I put up nest boxes?

    I've been reading all over here (and a little elsewhere) trying to figure this out; I figured I can't be the first person with this question... but I guess my chickens must be unique... Here's the story: We built the coop with one large community nest box, we were planning on 6-8 hens. Well, we...
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    Need advice on reintroducing pecked chicks to flock

    So last Thursday, at the age of 4 wks 2 days, I glanced in the brooder and saw one of the hens had a bloody lower back just above her tail. I started preparing a cat carrier to isolate her to, and when I got her out to move her, noticed one of the little roos also had some damage (not as much)...
  20. TexGardenGirl

    Just got my first chickies!!

    So apparently I'm an idiot and didn't realize that the date they gave me was the delivery date, not the ship date, because I was expecting them tomorrow! I had just gotten the brooder totally set up and the light on long enough to know it would actually heat up properly, and cleaned the food &...
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