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  1. amorgan

    Candling Outside During the Day

    I have a 2 part question. This is only my 2nd time hatching under a broody hen, I usually would just get day old chicks and use a brooder box. The first time I just let my hen only have 5 eggs, I never candled, and I moved her to a separate pen. I ended up breaking 4 broody hens last year by...
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    Frostbite on comb and waddles

    I went on vacation for 5 days and came back to my rooster having horrible frostbite on his comb and waddles! The girls look fine, but he looks horrible! I have GreenGoo and BlueKote. Would one of those be a good idea to put on him to relieve pain and help healing?
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    Are my egg/embryos still alive?

    I have a young broody who started sitting on eggs several weeks ago. For the first 2 weeks she was sitting on fake eggs because I didn't think she was serious, but then decided to give her 4 eggs to hatch when I realized she meant business. Over the past week and a half, I kept finding hee in a...
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    Racoon Attack!

    My poor girls can't catch a break! A racoon managed to get in our coop last night and killed all but 2 of our girls.:mad: We managed to kill it and I believe I fixed the issue that allowed the coon in. My problem is, the 2 surviving girls have wounds on their heads. One almost looks like I think...
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    Fertile(?) Eggs left in nest box

    Hi all:frow I went on vacation for a few days with my mom and sister, leaving my husband home to care for the girls. Naturally, he didn't collect the eggs for 3 days and one of the Easter Eggers thought she wanted to be broody (which, of course, she never really wants to after a bit :p). I...
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    Molting hen pecked to death??

    So I have (had) 12 hens who are 9 months old and about half of them are starting to molt. Tonight I found one of them dead on the coop floor. She was "face down" and her back area was flayed open and missing quite a bit of flesh and other bits (I mean bare bones were showing). I find it odd that...
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    Frozen Eggs for Eggnog?

    So I'm about to prepare a bounty of eggs to be frozen in anticipation of the long winter months. But I was wondering if anyone has tried to use frozen eggs to make eggnog? I plan to add sugar or salt to batches of egg and the recipe I plan to use will heat the eggnog mixture to 160 degrees in...
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    Mosquitoes swarming flock

    We've had a bunch of rain here recently and the mosquitoes are horrible! We can't hardly go outside without being swarmed and now I'm noticing the nasty little things swarming my girls too! We live in the country surrounded by woods, so eliminating all standing water and long grass/weeds is out...
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    Encourage broody EE pullet?

    So I have a EE pullet that seems to be acting a bit broody. For the past two days I've had to shoo her out of the nest box during the day and pick her up out of the nest box and place her on the roost at night. She was born in mid-february and the whole flock just got into full swing laying. I...
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    Moving pullets outside in cold weather?

    I have 13 pullets that are about 6-7 weeks old and appear to be fully feathered out. I live in northern Indiana and our temps have been pretty unpredictable. One day it can be 68 degrees and 45 the next. The extended forecast is showing highs of 40's and lows of 20's at night. Plus its snowing...
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    Mysterious dead chick.

    Hi everyone, I hope someone can give me some insight. I'm new to chickens and recently picked up 15 baby chicks from a feed store last thursday. I picked up 8 ameruacanas (specifically said they are NOT ee), 4 RIR, and 3 BR. The guy told me the BR were 3 wks, which I think he either misspoke and...
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    Hello from North Liberty, IN

    I have been having chicken dreams for a couple years now, but have always lived in areas that prohibited chicken keeping. Me and my husband recently moved into a country house and have finally been able to pick up our first flock of fuzzy butts! Any advice from northern IN residents would be...
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