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  1. SaltandPenny

    hen with bad habit!!

    I haven't been on here for so long, I have a hen with a bad habit I need to break ASAP. My hen (Eclipse) started laying 4 days ago. On the second day, I couldn't find her egg, so I was walking towards the coop and saw an eggshell and yolk on the ground. My chickens sleep in the tree above their...
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    blind chick?

    I knoticed that there is a grayish spot in my day old chick's eye, he/she has been keeping it closed, but opens it when I come to the brooder box. Is the eye blind?
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    huge problem!!

    The chick has been lifting the shell of the egg and part of the bits of shell fell off, revealing the membrane, it is dry. I put some water on it and it dried within 5 minutes, what should I do?
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    peeping!!!

    About 11 last night I heard smething, I got out of bed and checked on the incubator. I sat there for a moment and a muffled peeping started and lasted for aboy 10 seconds!! We shouod see pipping in anout 5 hours!!!!
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    huge air sac!!!!!!

    My chicken egg in our incubator is on day 19, I candled it this morning and the air sac is huge!! The chick is moving around like it's ready to hatch, and the humidity is at 80%. Is the chick going to be alright?
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    day 19!!!!

    I have one egg in an incubator and it is at day 19, I candled it this morning and it was moving so much!! It's been in the incubator for 3 days, it was under my broody for 16 days, and then I switched. When I candled it, the airsack was huge. The humidity is 80% and the airsack is bigger than it...
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    broody to incubator?

    My family has decided that no more chickens, and I've had one fertile egg under my hen!! I have to break her broodiness today, is it safe to change the 17 day old egg in an incubator?It's a bantam and a regular chicken mix. Please give me answers, it has to happen today.
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    twins?

    My hen has been broody, and I gave her some fertile eggs(only one was alive) the egg is on day 16 and I candled it this morning and the baby was completely filling up the egg!! It is alive, and I kind of think we have a twin chicken....could this be possible?
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    is she giving up??

    My hen has been broody for 15 days and her eggs are alive and she gets off the nest every 30 minutes!!! Is she giving up, what should I do???
  10. SaltandPenny

    pics of my wyandottes!!!!!

    The white rooster is supposed to be a blue laced red wyandotte, but he isn't any breed I have ever seen!!!
  11. SaltandPenny

    broody again?

    Okay, my hen(Salt) was broody about 2 1/2 months ago and she hatched out 1 chick. She has a sister(Penny) and I got home from my swimming group tonight and I checked on the chickens and all three chickens were in the coop!(they usually sleep in our trees) Salt and Penny were both puffed up and...
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    Giving the chick the boot

    My hen has been trying to get her chick to be on her own, and she has been pecking the chick and I picked the chick up and the mom drew blood by ripping out a feather. What should I do with this problem.
  13. SaltandPenny

    What can I do?

    Okay my tablet is being glitchy and it won't let me post a regular thread. My hen who has the chick started laying again last week and this is the first time I've been home during the day and I felt her bum and an egg is ready to be passed, but she won't go in the nesting box. Should I bring...
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    My hen is giving up!!!

    I forgot to lock the coop last night and my hen that has a week old chick slept in the tree with her sister!!!!! The chick might die,should I make sure to make my hen stay with the baby or should I take care of it?
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    What is this breed?

    This chick is bizzare, it is black with a white face . its father is a genetic mishap and its mother is a black austrolope. Has anyone ever seen a chick like this?
  16. SaltandPenny

    The chick is finally hatching!!!

    I went to check on my hen(To refill water and food)and She was pushing hard on the nest.And I moved a little too fast and my hen puffed up and a chick peeped wildly.I am soo happy her last egg is hatching . Let's just hope later today it will hatch.
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    Is it alive or is it my imagination?

    I decided to check on my hen's egg(since it is her only surviving egg)she is a good girl and let me pick her egg up.I put it up to my ear and heard pecking, and scrabbling.Is this what I might hear on day 20? I'm wondering if this is the chick getting ready to hatch, am I right or is it my...
  18. SaltandPenny

    is it hatching soon?

    Today is day 19 for my broody and yesterday the egg was peeping, should I look under her this morning or should I wait to do it(she is really clam and lets me pet her and look under her)
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    What did it?!!

    I came home and our rabbit was eating something in the yard, I went to see what it was and it was my hen's fertile egg, at day 15!!!I locked him in his hutch and checked on my hen, she was normal.the egg was not there this morning.do rabbits steal and eat eggs?
  20. SaltandPenny

    Uhhh, problems?

    I candled the two fertile eggs again and one embryo was almost filling up the egg, and the other is not even close to filling it up.The tiny embryo's father is a bantam.Is this why it's so small?And yes both embryos are alive!They are on day 12.
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