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    Hatched baby

    This baby hatched and its belly looks so weird to me, I never saw the others this fresh, so maybe it’s normal and I just don’t know? I’ll attach photos below
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    Broody hens with fertile eggs but no hatching

    I have a hen that has been broody for a little over a month now. We have a rooster and I know the eggs are fertile. I’ve candled several and they are developing however one egg was broken and looked to be about 2-4 days away from hatching. none others have hatched. What would be the cause for...
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    Broody momma

    We have a broody hen who’s got several eggs under her, they seem to be at very different stages of development. Can anyone help me determine about how many days in they are? The one with more development isn’t the best picture, and I drew a circle around it to know not to collect in the begining...
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    Week old chicks and broody hen

    Hi! We got 4 new chicks last weekend, so they are a little over a week old. We now have a first time broody hen. She’s been on the nest for about 3-4 days. We’ve been collecting eggs from her. But one day it was raining and 3 got left under her. So my question is- can we slip the new baby...
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    Healed head, is it infected?

    My hen hast hatched her first chicks in October. They have always been with my flock and have been fine. One of them was being picked one for a couple days, i put some medicine on her head for 2 days and then it was fine. Now 2 weeks later it looks like this, is it infected? Did it heal weird...
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    Dead chicken on coop floor.

    I have 13, 8 month old chickens and when I went to lock them up, I found one laying on the coop floor in the corner with her head down, and she was dead. Seemed fine yesterday when we put them up and now one else seems sick. She doesn’t have any obvious marks or signs of struggle. Just...
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    Chicks hatching and bloody

    Momma hen has hatched 7 chicks and is being a great mom since Friday, she’s still got 3 eggs under her that need to hatch. One piped today, and was slooowly making progress. When I went to check on babies, I seen blood and she was going to town on the egg and chick that has piped. It was still...
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    Babies hatched now what?!

    My momma orphington, has hatched 5 eggs so far out of 12. My question is- the coop is elevated off the ground and they go down stairs into the run, if I section off a space for momma and her chicks so they can still see the others but they won’t be able to ever get to the run, however they won’t...
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    Help! Cracked egg at day 18

    Hi! I have a broody hen who has been such a good mom to her eggs and has been sitting on them for almost 3 weeks. This is day 18/19 She left the nest and was sitting on another group of eggs today when we checked. Her current eggs were almost cold. So we moved her back and all was well. I went...
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    HELP HEN HAS HUGE HOLES

    Help my hen has multiple wounds on her and maggots are in one of the bad ones, there was one night when I went to lock them up I could find her for about an hour or so, and finally when I went back and found her she seemed fine. But now she isn't as active, she doesn't really want to leave the...
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    New duckling

    I've had my ducklings for about a week now they are doing wonderful! Definitely a lot more poop then from what I remember my baby chicks gave me! Lol but I'm wondering if any of you can help me with what breed they are??
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    New to BYC!

    I have been raising chickens for almost 2 years now. Small flock, one barred rock, two RIR and one a friend gave me im unsure of her breed and have recently gotten a few ducks. Excited to see how they mingle together
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