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    What is wrong with her??

    We purchased 9 pullets(most of which turned out to be roos ) about 2 months ago and have 2 of the hens left. The one in question is a RIR mix who is about 4-6 months(guestimate) old. She has always been more timid than the rest of the chickens, but I didn't think anything about it until...
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    First hatch not quite a failure yet....

    DH and I put our 8 RIR eggs in for hatching on the 10th of April, and they should have hatched out on Thursday. We did not have a hygrometer and since it was our first hatch, we waited a couple extra days before calling it quits. I wanted to open the eggs to see how "far along" they were and...
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    My surviving bantam chicks and Momma!

    I posted a thread earlier today about some abandoned eggs I was trying(unfortunately unsuccessfully )so I figured I would post a thread about the ones that did make it! Here is Momma and babies- and some closer ones of the babies- some may be a bit blurry, Sorry! and one more- Momma was...
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    Egg Bound RIR Hen

    I have 5 RIR hens that are about 2 years old. Very Healthy until recently. One of the hens was egg bound(not sure how long, but I noticed it on Saturday). I immediately isolated her and removed a broken egg(already broken) from her vent, cleaned her vent area, and trimmed all the...
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    Hello From Coastal NC

    Hi all! My name is Tonya and I am from coastal NC. I am married with 2 beautiful daughters. We started having chickens when we bought our current house in June of 07. We started with 6 RIR pullets and have had great luck with them. They are fantastic egg layers and pretty cool birds! We are...
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    No incubator and peeping eggs!

    On Saturday sometime- by bantam hen hatched out 5 chicks. She is a free range bird and left the other 7 eggs on the nest to chill while she took care of the 4 that made it(one got trapped in a roll of wire and died). I gathered the eggs that were left and put them in a box with shop lights for a...
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