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  1. J

    First goose egg!

    It's been unseasonably warm here in Iowa. We have two geese and one gander and he's been mating both of the girls fairly frequently, so I figured eggs would soon follow. I didn't expect them so early, figured they'd be into March at least. But one of them dropped their first egg yesterday.
  2. J

    Ear/Sinus Infection?

    I have a roughly 6 month old hen who has quite swollen ears with discharge. Crusty snot. Doesn't seem to have any long issues. Her eyes aren't particularly swollen, but with crust shut occasionally. This morning just lightly touching them and they popped open. She's eating, drinking, and...
  3. J

    Is this egg fertile?

    Ok, so I've done some searching and can't seem to turn much up. I hatched a couple sets of buff orpington eggs this spring (from a friend who's kept chickens for about 30 years or so), had incubator issues for the first batch, but successfully hatched 10 of 12 in the second set. One from the...
  4. J

    Can't imagine this buff orpington NOT being a cockerel...

    But figured I'd ask since I have never done this before. Hatched May 3rd, so just a bit short of four weeks.
  5. J

    Chicken Poop Question (with pics)

    I have a total of 11 chicks right now. One hatched out of eight eggs two weeks ago (major incubator failures). And the other ten hatched out of a dozen that I put in a week after the first set. Mostly, they seem to be "normal", but I have never done this before. They started in a 28 gallon...
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