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    transporting my flock across country

    Hi everyone, I've got a flock of around 50 chickens that I was planning to cut down to around 10 just to make moving them across country more manageable. I found out that the state I am moving to wants a health certificate and testing for avian flu and typhoid. I spoke to the vet and they said...
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    Weird Egg Smell

    OK, this is gong to sound crazy. I noticed today that some eggs in the fridge smell like freshly hatched chicks! I noticed that smell when my broody hen hatched several chicks last summer. It's hard to describe...but it makes me think of blood or something. The chicks smelled like it for a day...
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    Lost 2 blue Andalusians in a month

    I'm so sad...I lost one of my favorite blues today. Found her dead on the floor of the coop. She didn't have any signs of trauma, and she wasn't acting sick the day before. She was about a year old. I had four blue andalusians that I got at the same time. Here they are...they liked to sleep on...
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    need help...baby chick about to hatch...I think

    This is my first experience with broody hens. My cochin is sitting on several eggs. One is in front of her. The shell is broken, but the membrane is intact. Is this normal? I assumed the membrane would break before the shell. I can see the egg moving and the chick is peeping. Also, the hen...
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    Broody hen eating her egg

    My easter egger has been sitting on eggs for around 2 weeks. Everything was fine, then today I saw her eating out of a broken shell. I couldn't tell if it was a baby chick or just an unfertilized egg. It was dark in the coop and I didn't want to pick her up and disturb her. Is this common? Do...
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    hens with pale combs but roosters with bright red ones

    Hi everyone, I'm a little worried about my hens. They all have pale combs...the combs also seem kind of dry. They've been this way for awhile. They seem to be laying fine. My roosters have bright red combs. I've read some of the threads here about worms and mites, etc, but it seems like if...
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    hen acts like it hurts when picked up

    We have a formerly sweet and cuddly ameracana hen that loved to be held and carried around. We called her "the football" because you could carry her any way you wanted and she didn't mind. The last week or so, when we try to pick her up, she runs away. She acts like it hurts when we hold her...
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    new rooster joining the flock

    My flock has been roosterless for awhile. A leghorn hen is the alpha female. A 10 week old rooster has been facing off with her. He always gives up and runs away. At some point will the hen give in and let him be dominant, or will there always be discord between them? With the former rooster...
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    help with rooster

    ok, I had a very bad experience with a barred rock rooster...he was psycho and would constantly try to attack us. We were scared to go in the backyard. We eventually got rid of him, and the backyard was peaceful again. Well, one of the Americana chicks we got from the feed store turned out to...
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    2 sudden chicken deaths in 2 weeks

    Hi. I hope someone can help me. I've been lurking here fr awhile, but this is my first post. This is my second year raising chickens. Two weeks ago, one of my favorite hens, a buff orpington started acting sluggish. We though she was overheated, because we are in arizona and it's been over 100...
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