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  1. ChickenIzzy

    When to help hatch... A cautionary tale *WARNING- Graphic Imagery*

    I want to tell you guys about a hatch that I had yesterday that may help others out. I've had some issues with hatching in my homemade incubator, and at this point I'm fairly certain the bator is the problem. We have been also been overlapping hatches and I think that hasn't helped. All in all...
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    Talk Me Down!! I feel like I need to help this egg hatch!

    I am a first time hatcher. We built a homemade, cooler-style incubator. It really is less than ideal, we've had some temp spikes and drops, but our eggs seem to be making it to term (according to candling). We've already had one make it to term. Candled it the morning of day 22 and saw movement...
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    Mystery Chicken

    We have 14 miscellaneous chickens and know generally what most of them are, but this one little guy (or gal) is a mystery to us. He's 5 months old, none of them are laying yet, so no idea on the gender either. He's much smaller than my whites and reds, so I assume he's some bantam breed, but any...
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    Flock is dying and I Don't Know Why... HELP!

    I had a flock of 17 chickens that we have had since they were days old. They are now 13 weeks old and I've now lost 4, all with the same symptoms within a week. They die one at a time. Each time one showed signs (isolated from others, no interest in food, wouldn't react when I picked her up) we...
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    Homemade Brooder (Upcycling Fun)

    Our family has been researching chicken rearing over the winter and decided to get some chickens for laying this spring. We prepared a section of our yard for their run, began building the coop and thought about what breeds we wanted, but we neglected to really think about preparing a brooder...
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    Help Identifying Breeds please? (x-post)

    Sorry, I am a new member/ poster and put this in the wrong forum the first time so I'm moving it over here!: It's time for another round of the ever popular 'What Breed is My Chick?' game!! First of all let me say that I am a new member and a new chicken mom! This was not a decision...
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    Name That Chick (breed)

    It's time for another round of the ever popular 'What Breed is My Chick?' game!! First of all let me say that I am a new member and a new chicken mom! This was not a decision taken lightly and I spent weeks on this site gaining TONS of knowledge before we went and started our new poultry...
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