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    What is this in my egg????

    I found this inside of a hard boiled egg. What is it?? It's got a hardish outer shell and the inside is red. In my 10+ years of raising chickens I have never seen this before. Any thoughts? pen shown for size reference...
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    HELP!! What is wrong with my chicks??? (Pic included)

    Is this avian pox? They are all getting growths on their beaks. There is a slight respiratory issue also but are all eating and drinking normally. One got it in his eye so badly I had to cull him I need to know what this is and if I can help them!!!
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    chickens and mating behavior

    OK, this is may be a strange question, but I had a broody cochin hen in with a bantam mixed-breed roo and I put some eggs under the cochin. She hatched one single golden laced polish chick. I kept the three of them together and the roo has always been great. Now the polish chick has grown...
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    What killed my chickens??? (pics included)

    I had 2 free-range bantams who have been around for a couple of years now. Each night I carefully put them away locked in their coop and each morning I let them out. Yesterday I let them out at around 9:00 and when I got home at 4:00 they were gone! I looked around and found a bunch of...
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    Gender of Light Brahmas??

    I know this isn't the greatest picture, but it's what I could get as of last night. They were having fun snacking on leftover brussel sprout plants Any ideas as to the gender of my light brahmas? They all look like roos to me except MAYBE the one on the right front, but I'm not positive and...
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    My rooster won't go back in his coop!

    I have a little Belgian D'Anvers rooster who I free-range with a small coop (just big enough for 2 bantams, really) for sleeping in. He had a hen, but she was killed by a fox in the coop (It was completely my fault - I had forgotten to shut the door). He survived but he's not happy about that...
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    2 mystery roos

    i believe these are 2 roos. bantams for sure. any guesses as to the mix? the eggs came from a friend who has no idea what they are a mix of! ETA corrected picture link
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    Kittens and chickens

    I have a mouse problem. I can't poison them because I have dogs and if one dies where my dogs can get at it, the dog dies. So I have 2 twelve week old kittens coming (born out of barn cats - these are not house cats by any means). They come from a farm with chickens and the parents don't...
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    Broody made a huge mess on her eggs - HELP!

    I have a broody hen who has been on her eggs for about one and a half weeks now. yesterday I found her off the eggs after having basically pooped all over them! I took some of the messier ones out and just tossed them, I figured they are beyond hope, but left the rest of the in. Once I did...
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    D'Anvers Hen - not laying anymore

    I have 3 Belgian D'Anvers chickens - 2 hens and a roo. The two hens are in separate coops because they absolutely hate each other. The one in my mixed coop is doing fine, nice red comb, laying an egg every other day or so. The other one is in a coop with only the D'Anvers roo. She was doing...
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    stunted growth? - **Edit - Picture added!**

    I have bantams but haven't actually hatched any until my last hatch. One of them is a little bantam chick who has barely grown at all. All of the other chicks have grown nicely and they are probably about 4 times the size of him. Granted, the little guy was a peanut right from the start...
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    When do your roos crow?

    I'm curious as to what specific events make other roosters crow (other than the random crowing that they all do). Mine crow as soon as I let my dogs out in the morning and they crow when I get home because they know that's when I bring the treats. They also typically crow when a hen is about...
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    Help - chick with distended abdomen

    My hatch is over - 14 little fuzzbutts hatched over the last couple of days. There is one that I had to assist and he's not doing well. He has a very distended abdomen and while he's drinking and pooping, he's clearly not like the others - his abdomen is very swollen. Is there anything I can...
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    Any fox experts?

    I have seen several fox in my yard over the last year - NONE of them has ever paid any attention to my chickens! I know that people have said that they've had chickens killed by a fox, but are they typically not in the fox diet??? Weirdest thing, the last time I saw one (and it was a rather...
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    My bantam hen took over the coop!

    I have a bantam D'Anvers hen who has never fit in anywhere. The other bantams in the bantam coop beat her up, I put her with another D'Anvers hen and roo and they beat her up... So, she's lived alone for a little while. In them meantime I got some EE's who are probably about 4 months old...
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    Lockdown Question

    Out of 41 eggs, looks like 22 have made it to lockdown starting tomorrow night. So, I now need some information on my very first lockdown! I will be putting sponges and things in the incubator to get the humidity up, but how do I get water in it (LG Still Air) without opening it? There are...
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    temp has been low - do I lockdown later?

    I have a still-air LG incubator and from what I've read, the temp should be 101.5 at the top of the eggs. My temp has been slightly below that (around 100 to 100.5) because anytime I turned it up it would go too far up. I figured it would be better to go on the lower side of temperature than...
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    First Time Hatch Questions about humidity

    I have a LG Still Air incubator and candled the eggs today at Day 8. I think my humidity is too low because the air sac looks too big based on photos I've seen of other eggs at this stage. So, being the person I am, the first thing I did was panic. Next, I jacked up the humidity (about 10...
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    Eggs in Bator aren't looking good at Day 4 - Help with remaining few?

    This is my first time using an incubator and only 5 of the eggs show veins with a couple more questionable since they are brown eggs. I'm at Day 4 but from everything I've read you should still be able to see the veins this early. I did see veins in the 5 that I marked as still viable. So...
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    Temps in Little Giant Still Air with Egg Turner

    So I've put my first bunch of eggs in my incubator, and yes, next time I will be getting a fan kit... But as of right now I have 4 different thermometers and a Hygrometer in this thing and nothing is making sense!!! The two cheap thermometers that came with the LG are on both ends sitting on...
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