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    My Buff Orpington keeps cracking the eggs underneath her?????

    She went broody twice and both times this happened. They are in crate/laying boxes...Once I watched as another hen stole the eggs out from under her and thought that was how the eggs were cracked, but then I put cardboard in on both sides of her. She was totally protected and yet three days...
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    FS: One week old White Chinese Goslings near Reading, PA

    Please PM me if interested. They are not sexed. $8 each. They all answer to the name "Babies" and follow me or my children around the yard. They have had plenty of interaction with me, my kids, my dog, and my ducks in their first week and they have spent a lot of time outdoors grazing.
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    goslings picking on backs

    New to geese. I have 8 white chinese in a brooder box at night. In the daytime they are following me around with farm chores or safely grazing in a giant dog crate I keep moving around outside my chicken coops. They are one week old yesterday. Two days ago one goose started picking the...
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    For sale or trade- white chinese goslings - PA

    My parents ordered eight goslings for my son from cackle hatchery that are due to arrive on Thursday, June 11th. I really wish my parents would have asked me because I would have asked them to split the order with 4 toulouse and 4 white chinese. I would like to sell 4 to a good home or trade...
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    grit and chicks

    I have 4 week old Cornish Rocks in a chicken tractor along with some golden comets. They have access to grass, however the directions on the bag of grit say "Do not give to birds under 10 weeks old" When do I start to give my chicks grit?
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    How do you keep predators out of a chicken tractor?

    The purpose is to change their pasture so you need it to be open, but how do you keep predators out at night? chicken wire? hardware cloth? My sides are hardware cloth....
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    Experienced hatchers!!! I need an answer as a first timer

    Today is day 19. 4 of 20 eggs have pipped. The first one to pip has a red rim under the pip site. Is this blood? Is this bad? Does it need help?
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    normal to see blood/red where egg pipped

    4 of 20 eggs are pipping on day 19. The first one to break through now has a red rim around on the lower end of the pipping site. Is that normal? this is a nail biter. So hard not to just keep looking!
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    Freaking out- humidity dropped to 0% on Day 17

    I took kids on a class trip yesterday to D.C. and left the house at 5:30 am. Temp fine- humidity 40%. I returned at 9pm last night and the humidity was at 0%. Are my embryos dead? What do I even look for if I candle? I've never had the humidity drop like that. I am so upset.
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    Help! TSC misinformation...Cornish Rock or Male Gold Sex Link?

    We went in to TSC to purchase our first cornish rocks and the young man told us that the bin had a mix of cornish rocks and rhode island reds. We purchased the four remaining cornish rocks and the two supposed rhode islands. Once I got home, I look online and now know the RIR chicks were...
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    rotating and basement question

    Hello! I've been all over this site before joining tonight. We set 32 eggs in a Hovabator still air with automatic turner last night. We are going to try and make our own hatcher based on all of the info on here because one shipment of Buff Orp eggs was held up. They should arrive tomorrow...
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