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  1. hotmessJess

    Veins but no embryo?

    So, we've had a lot of bad luck, lately. Two of my sweet hens left me with an egg a piece as their farewell gifts, so I decided to incubate them in hopes of getting two just like them. Well, I was over the moon when I saw tiny veins appear on day 3! However, here we are on day 7, and I can't...
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    Broken egg

    I took my girl to the emergency vet yesterday after finding her attacked by (possibly) a hawk. Her wounds weren't threatening, but I wanted her liked at to make sure there wasn't more injury I wasn't seeing. After being treated poorly by a tech for suggesting birds don't respond to pain like...
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    Aflatoxin/mycotoxin poisoning week old chick help!

    So I was standing next to my brooder when I noticed my week old chick (just the one) was upside down, seizing. I moved the others away from her until she was done. She went and rested and then seemed normal, just a little slow. In moving the chicks, I tipped the water, so I went to refill it...
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    Colour genetics

    This is a question more for curiosity and because the complexity of bird genetics eludes me, but I was hoping someone could explain this gentleman's appearance to me: His mother is a black australorp and his father a production red. I was just very surprised by his unusual look and I'm...
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    Bone ID

    I didn't know where to post this particular question. I'm missing my rooster, for a month now. A week ago, I found A GHO had moved into the neighborhood. A few days after that, I found an obscene amount of hackle and down feathers, and a few sickle feather in the woods, in view of Duke's (yes...
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    Mites! One thing after another...

    So, I cleaned my coop and did a scrub down about a week ago. Other than quite a bit of dander and stuck-on poop (it's been cold and wet, so I've done the minimal for cleanings), nothing seemed bad. I bought new straw day before yesterday, cleaned out the previous weeks' bedding and replaced...
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    My Bad Penny is ONE!

    My welsummer hen is a year old today! We bought her at tractor supply on 02/15/2015 (they were 2 days hatched at the time). Due to a dog attack, a child attack, and a mystery disappearance, she's the last of my original flock! She's a beautiful bird with so much personality! She's a great layer...
  8. hotmessJess

    Tumor and possible marek's

    So I have a 6 month old rooster (cornish x hen × production red roo), on whom I found a tumor (?) when I picked him up this evening. I don't recall anything feeling unusual when I picked him up about a month ago, but it seems pretty big. It's firm, but there's fluid build up around the...
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    Sick bird

    One of my roos is sick and I don't know what's going on with him. Yesterday, my son took treats out and realized the roo, Willow, was the only one not participating, but instead was laying in the coop. He picked him up and noticed he had fowl mites. He also had a limp. I felt around his legs...
  10. hotmessJess

    Just bragging

    I just wanted to brag among those that understand! My chicken lays the most beautifully yolked eggs I've ever seen! They're rich, dark orange like the flesh of tangerines! I'm so pleased, especially considering I wasn't sure how she would lay because her mother is a cornish X! This picture...
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    My poor Lamp

    I found my sweet rooster, Lamp (named by a 5yr old), dead from possibly a broken neck. He was stiff so it was really hard to evaluate him, other than his feathers all seem to be there and he was still not all the way cold. I have had the windows open all day and didn't hear a peep from him. The...
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    What in the world?!

    Okay, so I hatched a good bit of our eggs trying to replace my ladies after dog-pocalyse (I was only left with 4 hens, 2 of which were meat birds). I have two different roosters, not related, and they both sired pretty equally. But I'll be blowed, d**n near 75% of all four hens' hatches were...
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    Roo is headed to the chopping block

    So my roo, who has been somewhat aggressive since becoming a big boy, was doing so well with human socializing... until the brat children from next door undid my hard work with him by throwing rocks, kicking, and attacking him! Well today, one of our GOOD neighbors was caring for a two year...
  14. hotmessJess

    Raccoon problem

    So last night at about 2, I heard my one chicken kick up a fuss. She lives by her lonesome under a tarp. I'm not sure why, but after her sister died last month, she doesn't sleep in the coop with the others (she's a meaty mutant and the only one). But anyhow, I flip the light on to see her...
  15. hotmessJess

    so stressed!

    This hatch, I've had 3 out of 7 eggs develop upside-down! One of them I lost because I thought I could see a break beak in the air sac, but it was a foot! So in panic, I removed the air cell area on this egg and hit a blood vessel! But did discover it was also upside-down! I couldn't find her...
  16. hotmessJess

    Am I crazy...

    ...or is this guy trying to sell australorp as ayam cemani...
  17. hotmessJess

    I need reassurance...

    ... that waiting it out is what I need to do! My first egg pipped the shell on the WRONG side last night at 10pm. It started out as a tiny V. At 2am, it was a small star, and at 9am it was this: So, I'm seeing a little progress, but it's slow and I need you all to just reaffirm what I...
  18. hotmessJess

    first hatch excitement

    I was just hoping for a little good luck mojo from the BYC community on my first round of eggs going into lock down on day 18, today! I'm so nervous because this is my first time attending eggs in an incubator (none of my girls would go broody and even had the nerve to eat a few eggs after...
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    Need healthy but quick weight gain

    Hi all! So we had chicken-pocalypse last Thursday, we lost 4 (one literally, so still hoping she'll come home...). The neighbors let their dog out without her invisible fence collar. I have one guy in recovery, but he's not doing so hot. The vet thinks that he had an underlying issue before...
  20. hotmessJess

    Heartbroken about my chickens

    I had to euthanize two chickens today, one of them was my sweet meat rooster. My neighbors have a dog that lives to run, she's a known chicken killer, and they knew she didn't have her invisible fence collar but put her out anyway. I want to be so mad, but the dog was just doing what dogs do and...
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