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    Flock destroyed

    Yesterday when my 9y/o went to check for eggs on the flock he's been raising for over a year, he found all 15 chickens (13 hens and 2 roosters) dead. Two stray dogs tore into the fence overnight and killed every single chicken we had. He is devastated. He put so much work and time into being the...
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    Chirping eggs

    My 9 y/o son, a self proclaimed "chicken shepherd" has been trying to hatch eggs in a hovabator still air since Christmas with no hatches yet. We're hatching out of a mix of eggs our big chickens lay (multiple breeds, mostly red/black sex links). When we went on lock down, I got the humidity up...
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    First time hatching

    This may be a stupid question....I first saw my rooster mating a couple hens today. If I'm wanting to hatch some, how long after mating should I wait to harvest eggs? We eat several of the eggs so I'm trying to narrow it down to which eggs to eat and which to let go to the incubator (or let the...
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    chicken hawks

    Any advice to protect the girls from the mean ole hawk? I've lost 2 light colored ones now. will be going with dark breeds from now on...and I put a net over their kinda free range area
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