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  1. OrganicVanek

    Tell me about your chicken shows

    My kids each entered a chicken into their first show at our county fair. Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive, but I don't think we're going to do this fair again. We have to check in the chickens on Wednesday night. They stay there until Sunday night, in a small cage with a wire bottom. They...
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    eggs not fertilized despite mating

    My Muscovy just started laying eggs and we cracked open the first five and are going to let her sit on the rest and {hopefully} hatch little babies. However, when we cracked open the eggs they appeared to NOT be fertilized. How can this be? There has been PLENTY of mating going on! :) I did read...
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    Where should my soon-to-be mama duck be?

    Our Muscovy just started laying her first eggs and I want to let her hatch them herself. Do I keep her in the same coop or move her to her own private brooding area?
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    10 month old Muscovy still hasn't laid any eggs

    I have a trio of Muscovies - of course it was supposed to be one drake and two hens but ended up being one hen and two drakes :( They were hatched last May which makes them 10 months old now and we still haven't gotten any eggs. What gives? I read they can start laying around 5-6 months old but...
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    Is there anything I can do for constant pecking

    I know this sounds ridiculous, and I feel silly even asking, I mean chickens peck. It's what they do. But I have one hen ( a barred rock) who I don't even want to be around because if she is in pecking distance of me she will. And she's not gentle about it. I hate to dread any of my girls, but...
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    possible fertilized egg but I don't have a rooster (or do I?)

    My girls just started laying a week ago - they will be 20 weeks tomorrow. This morning I cracked one of the eggs open and I swear it looked fertilized. Little white dot at the top. Now, as far as I know I don't have any roosters. Surely I would know by now wouldn't I? So, is it possible for an...
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    Just slaughtered my first chicken. Sad :(

    We have (had) 23 girls for eggs and are planning on getting some meat birds this fall - so slaughtering a chicken isn't something I've been opposed to. But this was unplanned. One of my girls got attacked (by what, I don't know) and she had a huge gaping wound that was bleeding profusely from...
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