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  1. amymarie1221

    Advice welcome

    I’m using a Nurture Right 360 and eggs are on day 20 today. I am doing a dry hatch and locked down at day 18. I added water to bring humidity up to 60 and I noticed on day 19 the eggs looked half wet. I don’t see any wiggling around and don’t hear any noise. The temp stayed around 99.5 for the...
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    Broody hen off eggs

    So a hen hatched 9 chicks under the shed without me knowing. I candled the rest of the eggs and put three I thought might still be viable back under her. This morning she was off the nest with her 9 chicks. Surprisingly one egg piped! Then another one unzipped. I was at work so I told my...
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    Day 22 of broody hen

    My broody is sitting on three eggs. Today is day 22. One hatched on day 20. Don't see any pips on the other two, however I haven't inspected them totally because I don't want to disrupt the mom. She is in a nesting box so I was hoping all would hatch around the same time so I could move them to...
  4. amymarie1221

    When do I start the 21 day countdown?

    I put some eggs under my broody hen. It's getting late in the day, so do I count today as day 1? Or tomorrow since she will be sitting on them for a full 24 hours?
  5. amymarie1221

    First time broody!

    Broody hen was sitting in the popular nesting box. I decided to let her hatch some. I moved her to the "safe spot" last night and put fake eggs under her to make sure she would still sit. I checked on her before work and she was pacing around. 4 hours later hubby sends me pic, she's still not on...
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    Chicken poop question

    Okay so I have 13 hens and I always notice a variation of poops. Most I don't worry about, but the watery ones and the runny ones worry me. I do not see any worms so I don't necessarily want to just worm them. I had been feeding lettuce and cabbage so I thought maybe the extra water was the...
  7. amymarie1221

    Poultry lice

    Does anyone know the life cycle of poultry lice? I treated with permethrin a week ago, then again today. I've also heard to do 10 days after initial treatment. Do I need to do a third treatment?
  8. amymarie1221

    Silly egg question

    Does anyone else feel like if they keep checking their nesting boxes for eggs the chickens will lay less? Hahaha it probably has nothing to do with it, but I've been getting 5-7 eggs a day ( from 13 hens). I was off work today and checked the coop three times. I only got 4 eggs today! I feel...
  9. amymarie1221

    Help! Need sour crop treatment

    So I noticed earlier one of my hens was drinking more water then usual, and sort of staring off into space while everyone else scratched around. Shortly after they all went to bed. I took her off the roost and noticed her crop had a squishy water balloon feel to it. Brought her in and got on...
  10. amymarie1221

    Hard bump above eye

    Does anyone know what this is from or how to treat it? It's been there for a few weeks. She's acting normal and it doesn't seem to bother her. It's a hard lump, seems to of possibly gotten a tiny bit bigger recently.
  11. amymarie1221

    When are my hens going to lay!

    Okay so I got 4 chickens that are now 22 weeks old (glw, ameracauna, easter egger, & welsummer) and two chickens that are 26 weeks old (Olive egger, slw). Any suggestions on when they might start laying? The 22 week old welsummer and slw are starting to get red combs and wattles (also the 26...
  12. amymarie1221

    New member

    Hi, I'm new to chickens and got four 16 week old hens Saturday and two 20 week old hens yesterday. I've been reading about how to slowly introduce the new ones, but is it still necessary since they are all technically "new" to my home. I have them seperate now until I know exactly how I want to...
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