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    Urgent Sickness- Need Help!

    Hey all! A few weeks ago I relocated my chickens to a new area with a new flock in foster care (waiting on my coop to be built). Anyways, my chickens endured a long drive and changes in weather. Once they arrived, I noticed my bantams face was swelled up. I made a post here and was told it was...
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    Swollen face? Need help :(

    Hey all! My favorite hen HeiHei is looking a bit funny in the face. I’m unsure of what the problem is and my Google searches come up empty. But her eyes almost look swollen, her face changes from really red to pale, and she keeps falling asleep when I hold her. She almost looks sleep deprived...
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    PLZ HELP!- Chicken Bone Through Skin

    Hey all, Last month my chicken broke her wing. I believe it was an attack of some sort. Not having a vet nearby that helps chickens, my mom and I tried healing her wing ourselves. Which for the most part, it worked. No infections whatsoever and the feathers she lost during the attack grew back...
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    NEED HELP ASAP!!!

    Hey all, My flock was attacked sometime this morning. We aren’t sure by what, but it took the life of one of our girls and left another injured. She’s still eating, drinking, and moving and you wouldn’t even have noticed if we didn’t see blood. But she has an area missing a ton of feather and a...
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    Help! Weather is becoming a concern for my chickens

    Hey all! I live in the Chicago area and on Wednesday and Thursday, it’s supposed to be below -50 (with windchill and everything). I have trapped my entire coop, put extra bedding in the coops, have two heating walls in one coop, and I have 7 chickens and 1 bantam. Should I do anything else to...
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    Is my chicken laying soon?

    Hello fellow chicken friends!! So my 6 month old bantam chicken HeiHei i think will be laying eggs soon (I am not sure though because this is my first hen). Let’s start with why I think she is: recently she has been making A LOT of noise. She is always chattering and it is super loud. Then she...
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    Help!!! I think I have a sick chick!!!

    Hello everyone, Pheobe is the newest addition to my flock of three chickens: I have HeiHei who is 6months and Pixar who is a week older than Pheobe. The three of them share a large cage with a heat lamp and get along just fine (HeiHei loves putting them under each wing and snuggling and it’s so...
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    Is This A PIP?

    Hello everyone!! I recently incubated 6 eggs and 4 made he cut of going into lockdown. On Day 18, one egg hatched (Squishy and or Disney) and now I think another one may be starting. It looks like it pipped but I can not tell. What do you think?
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    Egg on Day 12 and Other Eggs on Day 7

    Thinking about the future on one egg I have on Day 12, what do I do at Lockdown? I know I have to increase the humidity so will that affect the other eggs for a couple of days? I only have one incubator so I have to use it for Lockdown.
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    Update: Day 21

    Hey all....so all of my chickens are dead. They were dead since day 19 or 18 because when I put them into lockdown, something was messed up and they froze in their shells. They egg yolk that was supposed to be fully ingested by today was still there (my sister and I cracked the eggs open and saw...
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    Day 20--Help!

    Hello chicken friends! It is 12 hours into day 20 and the 8 eggs inside the incubator have not pipped yet. I am worried they might be dead because I thought eggs hatched on day 20. The temperature has been the same, the humidity is around 75-80%, and the only time I opened the incubator was on...
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    Lockdown

    Hi all! My eggs are now in lockdown (day 18). So the thermometer was in the water somehow (I honestly have no idea how it got there). Since it was in the water, it was saying the temp was 99.0 and I was thinking that the incubator would try to get the heat boosted even though it was way above...
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    Chicken Eggs at Day 16

    Hey everyone! So I have been incubationg Bantom chicken eggs for 16 days now and on Day 10, I saw movement. I still see movement up to this day and am getting anxiety for lockdown. I have never hatched chickens before after many failed attempts and this time, the eggs are dark, veins are...
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    HELP!

    I recently got 6 duck eggs and 25 chicken eggs. I decided to incubate them together in the same incubator (I know that ducks take longer). So only 1 duck egg made it and 5 chicken eggs. So since the duck has to stay in the incubator and be turned longer, I kept my egg turner in there. At the...
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    HELP ASAP!!!

    There is this robin living in my tree and she leaves for very long periods of time. I just saw her for the first time today after she left for 2 hours. To top this, the weather is freezing outside. What do i do next time this happens? Should I just leave them alone?
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    Humidity with the Little Giant Incubator

    I have the Little Giant Incubator and setting the perfect humidity is extremely hard to understand. The water canals are very different than other incubators (pic below) Any tips on what I should do?
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    Important Hatching Needs

    I've been hatching chickens for about 3 months now. Nothing has hatched. Not a single egg has popped. Nothing. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I have The Little Giant incubator which sets the temperature perfectly (99.5) and turns the eggs for me as well. The humidity, I'm on my own there...
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    Does this look okay?

    This is currently one of my eggs on Day 13 (photos down below are pictures of the egg but at different angles). Does it look okay for Day 13 or is it a dud (I do not have the best candling skills due to lack of flashlight beams)?
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    What to use to candle an egg

    When I candle my eggs, I use a small, kid sized flashlight. Every single time I candle an egg, I can't see any detail besides the dark spot growing. What do you guys use?
  20. EmmaKnight

    Chicken or duck egg?

    I received 12 eggs yesterday and I realized one of them was massive. I think it might be a duck egg but I do not know. Here are pictures of the egg (circled in red):
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