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    Chicken fertility

    I have been looking all over for a spot to ask this question. I hope this is it. If not, please point me in the right direction. I am totally baffled! I recently put together an incubator and have been hatching chicks from my own flock. I don't have a 100% hatch rate, but so far it has been...
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    Fish food for chickens?

    Is is okay to feed fish food flakes to chickens? We have been offered as much as we want from a fish food company that is throwing out "contaminated" food, where the boxes have been damaged, but the flakes are still good inside (in plastic bags inside the boxes).
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    What to grow for chicken feed

    We have a few acres of farm land and our chickens free range it. We grow hay, which is a grass and alfalfa mix. Through the spring and summer and beginning of fall, we do not buy feed for the chickens. However, through fall and winter, we have no choice but to. What I would like to do is...
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    Confused again!!

    Okay, this beautiful boy is confusing me now! He is 13 weeks old here. Since he started feathering out I have been sure he was from my sister's Dominique hen. As he got bigger, we both thought his dad was her Silver Laced Polish rooster. But neither of those breeds have the tufts on the...
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    Quail fertility

    Okay, I know people are hatching quail eggs right now, but everything I have been reading says they only lay fertile eggs from May to November. Is this accurate? Or will they actually lay them throughout the winter as well? I am getting some quail soon, and I want to be hatching eggs...
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    How did this happen?

    Okay, someone please tell me how I got this? My roosters are Buff Orpington and Buff Brahmas. My hens are Buff Orpingtons, Buff Brahmas, Black Australorps, and 1 Black Sex Link. How am I getting black and white chicks?
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    Oil on eggs!

    Apparently I had the eggs for my next broody a little to close to my griddle this morning, and the cooking spray oversprayed and got some on the eggs. The eggs are in a carton, small end down, so the big ends got it. There is not much on them, just a light sprinkling, so they are not...
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    Frostbite

    Is anyone familiar with essential oils and/or Melaleuca products? My poor Red (Buff Orpington roo) has frostbite on his comb. I have no bag balm, no Vaseline, no Neosporin. I DO have MelaGel, and essential oils. Is Tea Tree oil safe to use on chickens? What about essential oils, such as...
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    Air ventilation... chimney??

    Would a chimney work for adding ventilation to a chicken coop? If so, how big around should it be? Does anyone have one? I really think it should work, but I don't want to add one and then not have it work.
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    How long does it reaaly take?

    How long does it really take for hens to accept another hen back into the flock? Are my hens just mean? I have two hens with chicks right now. Well, as of today, 3. One (an Australorp) has chicks that are 4 weeks old, the other's (a Buff Orpington) are 3 weeks old. The Australorp, after...
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    Change in flock dynamic.

    We recently made the heartbreakibg decision to part with our wonderful, top dog rooster, Mo. We loved Mo, and he is such a great rooster, it was a very difficult decision to make. But bottom line was he is the wrong breed for the purpose of our flock, we did not want babies from him, and so we...
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    Dark Brahmas

    I am looking for large breed Dark Brahma hatching eggs, does anybody have them?
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    Chick feeder hole size.

    How small/big do holes in a feeder need to be for chicks, from hatchlings up to 8 weeks, to fit their heads in but keep the adults and older chicks out?
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    Another male or female inquiry!

    These 3 chicks are 10 weeks old tomorrow. I think the black one is female, the 2 grey are male. My hubby thinks 1 of the grey ones is female. Opinions??
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    Eggs still okay?

    I have a broody hen right now who has been serious about it for a week. Yesterday evening we gave her 10 eggs, but didn't have a brooding area set up yet, and planned to do that today. When we went out, we found she had been removed from her eggs and was in a different spot. It was long...
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    Pullets or cockerels?

    12 weeks
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    Fertile eggs?

    We are starting our self sustaining flock this year and are looking forward to the day the little ones start laying, and doubly forward to broody hens and hopefully a lot of chicks each year so we don't have to keep buying meat chicks each year. It seems (after reading many threads) that even...
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    What breeds are these?

    My sister got these from other people and would like to know what they are. All of us are still learning, so we just have no idea. She lays extra large, dark brown eggs. This guy is huge, way bigger than all the others.
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    Chicks roosting

    Just wondering at what age chicks completely switch over from nesting to roosting? I have had roosts in my brooder for them since approx. 1.5 weeks old. They started exploring them right away and many will roost throughout the day, keeping them occupied constantly. However, when they settle...
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    What breed?

    I have been looking all over and simply cannot figure it out! I brought home two mystery chicks today, I think just over 2 weeks old. Bantams of some kind, but noone knows what! They were mistakenly included in someone's order at the feed store, and the person returned them upon discovering they...
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