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    Growth (tumors?) on face and possibly on vent

    Hi I have a few sick chickens w various symptoms-could be multiple diseases or all connected. A couple of my BCM’s are showing these growths around head. Is it fowl pox? Some other chickens have white and black spots on combs too but these girls in pic below are worst. Also have a 8mos roo...
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    Unabsorbed Yolk. Unassisted hatch! Help

    Chick pipped and zipped perfectly. Hatched alone middle of the night. Yolk is completely outside body. She’s been running around happy and strong. She broke the yolk. It’s not smelly or odd color. Pushing it back in seems like a lot to get in there???? Doesn’t look to be absorbing on its own...
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    Completely unabsorbed yolk!

    Hi Chick was right on time and perfect pip zip unassisted. Very strong chick Completely unabsorbed yolk. I tried putting her in a cup but she is so strong she just struggles to jump out. She ruptured the yolk very tiny hole but leaked almost all out. I’ve been watching closely it’s been about 6...
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    Broody setting day 16 and chicks in mail too!

    i have a broody who "happened" to start setting a couple of weeks before I have some new chicks scheduled to arrive. But they will be about +/- 4 days off of coinciding exactly perfectly. Should I take her eggs from her when baby chicks arrive and sneak them in, then try to add her own babies in...
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    sticky and then dry and leathery?

    I'm trying to understand what went wrong with my last hatch. I had 3 of 8 make it after lockdown. One drowned and two died in the shell and appear to be too dry. It seems the inner membranes were all tough and leathery compared to my first hatch. Some of these chicks had some yellow gluey...
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    Malposition 2

    So we are going on hour 18 since chick pipped wrong end. I opened up a bit more around hole and wetted the membranes with bacitracin and coconut oil where they were dry. the beak is out and head is between at least one leg down on small end. I eventually opened up area around air sac after...
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    New here and ready to "inkybate" as my 7 yr old says

    We have 6 hens right now and are looking to expand this spring. Just finished our new home on 1 acre and the chicken palace is too big for only 6 hens! Wanting to hatch some silkies and some marans and some frizzles and Easter eggers!
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