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    2.5 mos old hen can't stand or walk!!!!

    My hen, an EE, ( I think) is about 2-2.5 mos old. I got her from PBS. She seemed fine then yesterday my fiance and I woke up and went to do chicken chores and found her laying in the corner looking like she was dead. I hurriedly grabbed her and started examining. She weighed NOTHING and I...
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    Broken hearted hatching for a first timer.

    Fianceand i bought a pro series incubator at TSC. Calibrated it and then set my 12 olive egger eggs in. Well as a surprise about a week later i gifted him 8 Gold Laced Brahma eggs. As of today its day 22 on his Brahma eggs. I lost 4 eggs early. 2 never developed, 1 ended up with a bloodring and...
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    Clarification on Ee, Americauna and Araucana please.

    Hello everyone, After doing what ibthought was very good research and learning a ton on different breeds i tjought i had a pretty good basic understanding of breeds in general. It was my understanding that Americauna and Araucana are two distinct different breeds and that Easter Eggers were...
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    Candleing help!

    Even after reading the articles and looking at pic after pic I am clueless what I am looking at. I think one MAY have a blood ring??? Can anyone help? My eggs were put in 7/8is days ago ( Thursday night last week) fiances were put in Tuesday night. is this a baby chick? blood ring? why...
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    Is my incubation count correct?

    Ok. So we put our eggs in Thursday night. It is now Sunday night. First time ever incubating and am anxious to candle them to be sure of developement. I have been told not to until day 7. (No clue why) so if day one was thursday night to friday night then day 7 would be friday night? Or thursday...
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    Newcastle reported near me, vaccinate or no?

    Fiance and i are in our first year of chickendom, and i was doing some vaccine research. We are doing a mix of hatching and buying chicks. The bought chicks will have been givem Mareks vaccines. In my research i found that a case of newcastles was found within a 2 hour radius of me. Now i dont...
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    When to candle before or after?

    I just ordered a dozen olive egger eggs and i have never incubated before and was wondering should i candle the eggs before i put them in incubation? She is shippi g them out first thing tomorrow morning and was wondering when should i set up my incubator? Now or the day before delivery? Also if...
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    Need input on incubating numbers

    Ok, long story short, my fiance and i are building a 4x8 coop with a very large run attatched. We have 7 day old chick on order for may (4) and july (3). We have found 3 breeds of Brahma we would love to add to the coop and olive eggers as well. Problem is we have to order in groups of 6 of...
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    IOS GL, 'LL, BL BRAHMAS

    My fiance and I are expecting our eyes chick order in May and would love to have some Lavender Laced, Buff Laced and Gold Laced chicks to put into the mix. We live in Ohio and would prefer all females from Dan Powell line but are open to other lines. We are open to shipping as well. If anyone...
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    Ummm, do they really get THAT BIG????

    Ok, if you havent seen it there is a video circulating on Facebook of a gigantic Brahma roo and i mean GIGANTIC, if that wasnt shocking enough towards the end of the video a hen comes into view and she is dang near as freaking big as he is!!! Is that normal??? If not then how did it get that...
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    Run fencing question.

    Ok so for predator protection I have heard that some say to bury it 2 ft deep, others have said to lay hardware cloth out 2ft on the ground like a wing, which one is right? We have extremely hard packed clay about 3-6 inches down here and am not sure how well digging a trench to bury the...
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    Babe, we will just get 4.... he lied. Lol

    So fiance and i were having a hard time finding all the chicks/pullet breeds we want.so we said, we will just order 4 and do the MMM to help someone in need since we both believe in giving back, sounds simple right? Well this morning my adorable fiance decides to look at Meyers Hatchery...
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    Vaccines? Brooding area with lid?

    Didnt want to get into the raising chicks thing but it seems we dont have a choice. Here is my dilemma, i have 7 house dogs and nowhere BUT inside the house to put the chicks... is there a brooding thing i can put some kind of lid or cover on to keep the dogs out? Also we are looking at...
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    Pullets and chicks?

    Ok, so my fiancee nd i want 2 BA 1BO and 2 LO for our first flock, but i am having a hard time finding fully sexed LO pullets. I cN however, find day old chicks or i could hatch eggs. Given we dont want a rooster i am not sure what to do about the LO'S we really dont want to deal with the chick...
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    Rough coop design. Need insight.

    So fiance and i decided to scale way back and do 4 layers 2 AL 1 BO AND 1 LO and skip the meat because we really dont know if we could butcher them ourselves and we cant find anyone local that will do it for us. We still wanted to build a slightly larger coop tho in case it goes well and we...
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    Ummm how many chickens?

    My fiance and i have decided to build our first coop. We figure we can keep meat and layers seperate and when we are done with having meat chickens in a few year we can use that coop and run for brooding or as a bachelor pad. Overall size would be 6x8 with it being divided into two 6x4 coops...
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    Coop latchs question

    Hi all! Designing a DIY coop and wondering what latchs are best? Do chest latches work against predators for smaller doors? What about those gate latches that you have to move a lever to release the opening on the shank before you can open the door for larger doors? Also considering installing...
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    How to manage layers and meat?

    HI everyone! We haven't got chickens yet because we are waiting to have a coop built first. What is stalling a lot is we aren't sure if we need more than one coop/run or not. We are looking at eventually just having full on dual use birds after the first 3 or 4 years, most likely earlier. How...
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    Hi! Chicken newbie with a LOT of questions.

    Hi everyone! My fiance and i are just starting our chicken journey and he is basically letting me head the whole thing. So far i am loving the Black Austrolorps, buff and lavender Orpingtons and the Ayam Cemeni breeds. I want to eventually do all dual purpose breed chickens but figure the...
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