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    EGGS DIDN'T GET TURNED!!UGH.. toss them or wait?

    So I've got a still air incubator and went and found a used turner since I knew I needed to be gone several days. Plugged it in, seemed to work fine. I still marked the eggs so I could check it was working, being used. Anyway, appeared to be no problems, I left on day 9 of incubation, returned...
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    first time incubating and nervous

    Ok, so my still-air incubator I got for dang near free has been on for 2 days now, temp has settled right at 101. Im really nervous to set eggs in it though. lol. I've got my own hens and roos, so I'll be using their eggs this first time. Im REALLY nervous. I don't have an auto-turner, but...
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    HELP! Young goat, Open or Bred Pooch Test??!!

    I bought a young doling, only 6 months old and she was in the field with a Nigi buck! Oh my oh my... The owners said they hadn't seen any breeding taking place, but since they were selling because they couldn't spend enough time with the goats, who really knows. Needless to say she is...
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    Mamma hen of 8 chicks killed!!! Need advice

    My mamma hen who hatched out eggs and was raising 8 chicks! They are thankfully at that ugly feathering out stage of about 6 weeks old, and have been free ranging with mamma since hatching day but with mamma now dead (thanks to a dog) Im not sure if they will go to the cooop at night. Biggest...
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    Need to know how to sex golden laced, silverlaced and blue laced red wyandottes

    I had a clutch of eggs hatch out and Im trying to find out how on earth to sex my wyandottes. I have all 3 kinds, a couple are crosses between SLW and GLW, but 7 are the blue laced red. But back to the point--for the life of me don't know how to tell the difference between roo and pullet...
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    Experiment in raising chicks. Mamma hen adopting new hatchery chicks after she hatched her nest out

    My Golden Laced Wyandotte went broody awhile back, and I allowed her to hatch out chicks for the first time. Tuesday of this week,(Aug. 13th) she became the proud mamma to 5 baby chicks. Too bad that 2 of those were killed Thursday evening while roaming with her when they got too close to...
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    HELP! MY ENTIRE FLOCK STOPPED LAYING!

    UHG! Im so annoyed! I have a flock of 10 hens and 2 roos. I have one of those hens sitting on about 9 eggs that are due in 5 days, and the rest of the flock stopped laying! 6 of them had just started laying again after going through molt when the one (Mamma Fluffy Butt) went broody, I...
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    Broody Golden Laced Wyandotte, day two of sitting, can I add eggs today?

    I have a Golden Laced Wy that I allowed to go full on broody for the first time. She attempted it before but we didn't want chicks so I broke her broodiness then. I saw her yesterday when I went out to get eggs and figured "why not?" She had 4 eggs under her from that morning, and I added...
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