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    Question on temperature..?

    I've done quite a few hatches so I've begun staggering the hatch with 2 incubators now. My question is this - I usually keep the egg turner inside as I gather the eggs over 3 or 4 days before I put them in the incubator. I'm wondering if leaving them in the garage is ok instead of inside the...
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    Question on integrating new young 'ins

    I've done this a few times, but usually the birds were a bit older when we added new members to the flock. We have a flock of about 17 - only about half have molted but all are laying eggs so they're not super old but they have established a pecking order. I have 17 that I hatched out and...
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    rooster or hen?

    About 11 week old Ameraucana - It's a..... (insert gender)
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    rooster or hen?

    10 weeks old - came from green egg but could be mix with barred rock white leg horn or could be pure ameraucana
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    Help with gender on my 6 new ones please :)

    1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: Both white again - hard to tell apart - I think #5 on the left and #6 on the right: I'm pretty sure #2 is crowing so I'm thinking rooster on that one. They are 10 weeks old. What do you guys think?
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    Am I getting enough eggs?

    I'm wondering if I should be getting more eggs each day. We have 16 hens and only two maybe a third havd went through molt. All hens are laying and have been for at least a few months at the youngest. It has been warm here but summer is usually peak time. They do free range some days but other...
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    Broody buff help

    I've got a buff that has her first 6 chicks. They're about 2 months old. The buff just laid her first egg since hatching today. Makes me wonder if I should separate them? Or maybe let them out into the main flock? What would you do?
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    Killed a snake... What do you think it was?

    Quick background : we live in mid GA not near any water. There's woods all around us
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    Broody Ameraucana... Maybe?

    This summer I had my first broody buff. She's doing great in a separate pen with her 6 babies. For the last few weeks one of my Ameraucana has been sitting on the nest and making that same sound like mama buff did when I try to move her. I've been taking the eggs from her as I needed the buff...
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    what to use to separate chicks?

    Just wondering - we have a small styrofoam incubator that we hatch in - we've never separated chicks during the actual hatch. I'm wanting to keep them separate so I can keep the breeds distinguished. What do most people use to accomplish this? I thought maybe a 2x4 but all my boards are...
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    Anyone have egg size pictures?

    Hey I've been searching to no avail... Does anyone have pictures of full grown hen eggs all next to each other across different breeds? It's be nice to so the size difference in say a buff next to an Easter Egger next to a Rhode Island and so on. Anyone have or have a link to something like...
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    broody hen sleeping on ground outside coop

    So my first broody, Buff, is sleeping outside the coop on the ground with the chicks. The run is fenced in, but I'm worried the ground will be too cold/wet/something bad for them to be sleeping out there. On the other side moving them into the coop EVERY night for the next few weeks doesnt sound...
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    Broody hen question

    My buff is broody and due to hatch I'm guessing around tuesday this week. Apparently our Ameraucana's have been laying eggs on top of her while she's been sitting... this has resulted in around 20 eggs under her! I know a typical incubator hatch has one hatch today one tomorrow, one the next...
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    My first broody

    Hey everyone I have a quick question... My buff went broody a few weeks ago and we were leaving on vacation the next day. So I tucked 8 or 10 Ameraucana eggs under her. She's due to hatch Tuesday! My question is this : she's been diligent in one of my nesting boxes in sitting. I'm thinking I...
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    help with deep litter method (pics too)

    Hey I'm converting to the deep litter method - the rain beat me... Background: I had 2-4 inches of sand put in the run last year and it has slowly been washed around and now it's a mud pit.... feel free to use these pictures in later arguments against sand... So below is my coop after some...
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    Introducing different age chicks... What age?

    Quick question... I'm staggering hatches for the first time - I'm hoping to keep them close enough together to put them in the same brooder (got a second incubator) so how many days apart is too many to put them together? I'm thinking less than a week... Keep them apart until dry and fluffy...
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    Think this is a paw print?

    I lost a few chickens a week or so back and since then my birds have been locked up mostly. Here's a link to the post with pics of my missing birds if you want to see...
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    What to use in the run...

    I'm debating using small Gravel to fill the run with and would like some feedback from experience. I've read through the forums and it seems like everyone who I've read is talking about right after they filled the run with Gravel. Does anyone have any experience a few years into Gravel use? And...
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    Separating hens with rooster...

    I have a mixed flock but also have 7 Ameraucana one of which is a rooster. The other 12 birds are varying breeds. I want to hatch out some pure Ameraucana so here's my plan: I have a small coop made for maybe 4 full size hens. I know the Ameraucana are smaller birds but I don't plan on leaving...
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    What do you think killed my chicken? (picture of feathers included) (Lost another more pictures)

    I think I lost an Ameraucana today. We sit on a 2 acre lot (1 acre mine 1 acre my neighbors) and the chickens free range from 10am on most days. We lost a rooster to a coyote last year and have seen a hawk try to get one of our older hens before (the hawk was smaller than the chicken). We have...
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