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    Is this bumble foot?

    So I posted a few days back about our new chicks, thanks for the reply. The RIR that I thought was acting a little sickly is still doing ok, but he definitely isn’t moving as quickly as the rest. Today I realized that his foot is swollen. He’s barely over a week old and I’ve not really heard...
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    New chick question..

    Hey guys! I’m not really new here but it’s been 6-7 years since we‘ve had chickens. We raised them for 6 years and then an animal got in our coop on vacation and killed all but a couple. We gave the survivors to a friend and we also moved. We’ve just decided to add chicks to the new house...
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    Fair trio help. IS this even a roo?

    My daughter is showing silkies for the first time this year at the fair. We got these sweeties (plus some) from a breeder here on BYC. My daughter just loves them. We need a set of three for the fair, a roo and two hens. They should be as uniform as possible. This seemed to be our best set...
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    Not sure what to do.......

    We have 12 black copper maren eggs in our Brinsea incubator. This is our second hatch. Our first hatch went amazingly, with 11 out of 14 shipped eggs hatching (Delewares). I have been pretty disappointed thus far with this batch. I have candled twice and only had a couple I thought were...
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    My daughter is showing slikies in 4H, need some help. Pics.

    The first 2 pictures are of the same bird. It is about 4 1/2months old. It is either a splash or blue silkie. We are pretty sure it is also a rooster. Would that change whether or not it cordinates (color wise) with the hens? The next two pictures are also the same bird. It is either a...
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    Any hope for our last 3???

    Well so far our first hatch has gone extremely well. We are using our Brinsea Octagon 20 with auto turner. Temps and humidity have been great throughout. The only bad thing is that I did "lockdown" 2 days early, but I don't think that could mess things up too much and we kept the humidity...
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    Getting Ready to hatch! How do you count?

    I bought a dozen Delaware hatching eggs online. The eggs were laid in the morning and shipped that afternoon. That was a Tuesday and I got the eggs Thursday afternoon. I was thinking that today would be day 21, but would it really be tomorrow? The eggs were laid exactly 3 weeks ago today...
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    Hatching our first and a question.......

    We bought some hatching eggs from a gal on ebay a couple weeks ago. They are our first hatch ever. Right now they are in our Brinsea. The temps have been good and the RH is fine also (I think). We have been candling them. We candled them all once at about a week old and two times since then...
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    A little Brinsea info......

    I was really wanting to get a Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco, but I wasn't seeing any great deals. The site said out of stock so I assumed I couldnt order it from there. Well I called Brinsea today and they are getting tons of Octagon 20 Eco next Tuesday (she said like hundreds). They were super nice...
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    Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco????

    So we are branching out and going to incubate our own eggs. Yeah!!! Dh gave me the green light to get an incubator, which is great. I want to get the Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco, but I am concerned that it won't have everything we need. I talked dh into letting me spend the $200, but it will be a...
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    Showing Silkies in 4H?

    Last year my daughter and som showed meat birds at our local fair. This year they plan to show them again, but my daughter really wants to show silkies. We have 3 silkies right now (two black and on white) and they are our favorites. I would really like to get my daughter some show quality...
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    I think our silkie is broody. What should we do?

    We have a white silkie hen that is a sweetie. Before we knew she was a she we named her James Bond because she would do acrobats in the brooder box. Now she goes by "JB." She is one of the few hens we have named and she really has a sweet disposition. Anyways, we are pretty sure she is...
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    Ugh! Another Rooster Question.

    We have 23 standard hens (and some banties) and we use to have 2 standard roos. The roos were being VERY rough on our girls. We lost one last fall after her comb was tore completely off and she didn't make it. Now their back feathers are coming up missing (and looking bad) and their combs are...
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    Need to get rid of a rooster, which one?

    We have a relatively young flock (last spring) of 20 standard hens, 4 bantam hens, 2 bantam roosters and 2 standards roosters. Our two bantam roosters are fine and I have yet to see them touch a hen (even though one seriously had an attitude). Our two standard roos (EE's) are protective of the...
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    One of our RIR's has died.....I have no clue what it could be.

    My son just came in and said one of our RIR's was dead. Sure enough it was laying there in the coop gone. We let our bird free range during the day (just around the house, while we are here) and she was not dead this morning when he let them out. He found her in there when he was locking the...
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    Oh no, broody hen???

    This is our first year doing chickens and things have gone pretty well. We have about 20 standard hens, two standard roos, two bantam roos and 4 bantam hens. Our standard hens are about 7/8 months old and most have been laying for 3 or so months. Well, we have a black australorp that is...
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    Please help, our roosters are too rough and I am worried about my hens

    I really hope I can get some advice here on what to do. Our current flock consists of 20 5 month old hens (BO's, EE's, BA, NHR and RIR's) that are just starting to lay. We also have six almost 4 month old bantams (1 seabright roo, 1 silkie roo, 2 silkie hens, 2 OE's). Finally, we have two EE...
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    How can I get my hens to accept the others??

    I have 6, 10 week old bantams (with 2 roos), and 2 EE roos that are 8 weeks. They have been out in the coop for 3 weeks now. They have an area that is right next to the hens. Literally there's only chicken wire separating the two groups on one end. I was hoping they'd all get use to one...
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    My EE Pullet is acting funny....any advice?

    Hey there, I have a 13 week old EE pullet that is acting funny. I first noticed it yesterday when I was cleaning out the coop. She was overly friendly with me. When all the other chickens ran she just kind of sat there. She was eager to let me pet her, which isn't the norm. She is normally...
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    Basic Question about showing 4H Chickens

    This is our first year doing chickens and we are hooked. My 9 yr old son (and possibly my 11 yr old daughter) would like to show chickens in the fair next year. I know nothing about that. I know how to find a local 4H group that does chickens, but what is the best way to go about things? Do...
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