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    I'm on travel and the chicken at home is sick

    Chicken is in her second season. Very pale comb and loosing feathers. Poop very red/brown but we also just painted the coop red so not sure if related. She seems to be pecking around the yard just fine.
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    Cockerel or Pullet?

    About two months old at this point. Blue andalusean (sp?).
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    Do roosters have fluffy butts?

    My 7 year old insists this is a hen based on the fluffy butt. I say rooster based on comb and wattles and coloring. Chick is about 8 weeks old.
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    Mystery chick

    We got a "variety" pack of hatching eggs (breed stamped on egg) but this one (black and white)seems to make no sense. Based on other positive IDs it's got to be a Welsummer or Speckled Sussex, but it doesn't look like either of those (to me). Also...it looks a little roo-like.
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    Is this membrane dried?

    Pic is of Wellsummer egg who pipped about 8 hours ago. Our Blue Andalusan hatched overnight so I'm not sure what things are supposed to look like, but to me it looks like the membrane is intact and possibly in the wrong position.
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    Automatic turner not working for Welsummer egg

    We are incubating 7 eggs and the automatic turner is working well for all but the Welsummer. The Welsummer egg is very oblong and of even width, so I'm wondering if there's not enough of a convex surface to work with the turner. Suggestions? The Welsummer is the dark brown egg on the right.
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    Benefit of lights in the winter?

    We are debating whether or not to artificially increase daylight hours as winter approaches. Give how many eggs we have piling up and how long those eggs will last what would be the long term effects of letting the hens do their "normal" thing through the winter months?
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