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    More chicks

    I had a hen go broody 3 times this summer and ALL the eggs always hatch. 3 down and 3 more to go.
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    Help with breeds

    I cannot figure out who's who. Breed help please Possibilities hen rooster Welsummer Rhode Island Red Silver Phoenix Silver Phoenix Barred Plymouth Easter Egger Black Austrolporp Egg colors were 1 white 4 Brown 1 Chocolate Brown
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    Help

    I cannot figure out who's who. Breed help please Possibilities hen rooster Welsummer Rhode Island Red Silver Phoenix Silver Phoenix Barred Plymouth Easter Egger Black Austrolporp Egg colors were 1 white 4 Brown 1 Chocolate Brown
  4. mopsee2000

    New chicks

    I am so excited. Thanks for all of the advice. I got a broody hen and separated her. I placed 5 eggs under he from other hens, making 6 eggs total. I candle everyday, until day 18, then I left them alone. Yesterday, all 6 hatched and appeared healthy. I just went out today and they are all doing...
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    Help

    I got a new chicken a couple of days ago. I did not mix him into my flock as a fence separated them but they could see each other. Today I let them mix. I went to check the waterers. I was gone for 30 seconds. The Rhode island red ripped the new chicken's (a silkie) waffle half off. The other...
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    breeding confusion

    A silver phoenix had a baby. I have 1 silver pheonix rooster, 1 rhode island red rooster and 1 easter egger (ameraucana) rooster. The baby was a perfect picture of silver pheonix. I thought I had a pure bred but today I noticed some rusty color feathers on the wing. So it is not a pure bred...
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    The case of the missing chick???

    I woke yesterday and checked the eggs. One egg looked as if it hatched. The mother was sitting outside the nest beside the newly hatched egg shell. There were seven eggs still in the nest. She was not and did not lay on the leftover eggs for the rest of the day. I never found the missing baby...
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    Fake eggs??? What about a fake chicken?

    What if a puppet chicken with a temp controlled heating pad as a belly sits on the eggs. It could secrete moisture from the underside also. It could have a built in alarm for rotation reminders so maybe it clucks every so many hours as a reminder to rotate. It would be like a cute little...
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    Home made incubator help

    I built an incubator and it has been running between 99 degrees and 104 degrees. The humidity is awful. Between 20 and 32. I put a sponge in a bowl full of water and it pulled in to 32. I just checked and the bowl is still pretty full and it was 100 degrees and 28 humidity. This is my first time...
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    Eggs with no broody

    I placed 5 eggs with a hen and she is sleeping next to them. She is secluded in a 2 foot by 2 foot space, alone with the eggs. How long before I give up. She sleeps next to the eggs and it's been 2 days. Next to them, not on them.
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    Egg color

    if a Rhode Island Red rooster and leghorn hen have a pullet, what color would the eggs be when it started laying
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    Help with egg question

    I decided to do things the right way, I think. First I separated the hen from the rooster and other hens. There were (3) three eggs. The hen is alone now. Over the course of the next 7 days, she laid an egg a day. Now she has 10 eggs under her. The due dates, if I count 21 days for incubation is...
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    Incubator advice

    I am brand new to this and there are so many choices. I want a small incubator that is for a new person. I don't want to go broke but a cheap model that kills chicks would bother me also. I got about 1000000000000000000000000 hits when I Googled it. Here's what I am thinking of getting. I need...
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    After broody is over, how long before chicken starts laying again?

    I had a chicken go broody. She was laying on three eggs. I check through the day and another egg was added. Today was day 3 and another egg. I thought they did not lay when they are broody. That's one a day for 3 days. 2 eggs may be from other hens but she has been blocked off for the final 2.
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    Best brooders

    Which hen is best for laying on eggs until they hatch. Here's what I got 1. 1 Rhode Island Red-two years, it has never laid on an egg. It provides then leaves 2. 3 Barred Plymouth Rocks-two years and they provide eggs but never laid on any 3. 1 Welsummer, same as above 4. 2 Ameraucana, EE-One is...
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    Adding new chickens to the flock.

    I am thinking of buying a few more hens for the coop. I looked at several but one was a silver laced wyandotte. Now I looked at efowl's description. It say infrequently broody and further on it reads, "excellent mother.' I thought that's what broody meant. How can you not go broody but be an...
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    Helping a broody, Need advice

    I have a broody hen that lays on her eggs all night. She also lays on two chicks. In the morning she leaves the eggs and spends the day with the babies. (they are about 2 and a half weeks old) She does not lay on the eggs during the day. No other hens go near the eggs as she will flip out. It...
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    Help Please

    I see pics all the time of chicken that are very sociable. My chicken run away from me. They don't like me. How the heck do people hand feed chickens? I have about 20 Rhode Island Reds that are 3 months old. They wont come within 10 feet of me. No very friendly. I bought them and received them...
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    One Broody Hen

    I have 8 hens. One hen is broody for a while now. The other hens lay eggs in her nest and she sits on them. No other hen sits on the eggs. The first two eggs hatched. My first chicks. One is obviously hers. The other is not. It's obvious. Silver phoenix hen and the kids are a silver phoenix and...
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