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    Egg filled with blood?

    Okay, this is a new one on me. I went outside to get eggs and found a fart egg in the floor, not a ton smaller than my bantam hen lays but still noticeably smaller. Picked it up, brought it inside to show the fam, and almost left it in the egg basket to be washed with the rest of them but...
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    Freeloaders or late bloomers?

    Hey all, I got lavender ameraucanas in May of this year. Nobody has crowed, nobody is red in the face just pink, they have the characteristic teensy combs and nonexistent wattles of the ladies, and they are around 24 weeks old. Not ONE. SINGLE. EGG. :he I’m super impatient for them to start...
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    New to turkeys

    Okay folks! I’m going to be buying four sweetgrass/Narragansett mix poults on Monday morning. I have chickens and a single duckling, with some scovies due to hatch out next week. My entire flock free ranges! I was just curious as to what all of you had to say about this mix of breeds, and any...
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    New to Ducks!

    Hi all! I have a fairly large chicken flock, and I’ve recently decided to add some ducklings under a broody hen that’s been sitting for four weeks on infertile eggs. I pick up four five day old Indian runner ducklings on Wednesday! I ferment feed for my chickens, is that okay for ducklings...
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    Blue Andalusian

    Alright folks, tractor supply strikes again... March 2 I got three blue Andalusians and I ended up with two pullets and one cockerel. All with bare shanks, the cockerel has developed VERY rapidly (think around double the size of the pullets at this age), super dark wash on his toes/legs, yellow...
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    Adopting chicks to a mother hen

    I had a hen hatch out six chicks, and I wanted a couple more white egg layers (my entire laying flock right now are brown egg layers) so I got her four little Cali whites to go with her six youngins. I had read that I would have to wait until night, and do it oh so carefully, but I can’t pull...
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    Is this cocci?

    When it rains, it pours. It’s been raining here for three days, and my mother hen has lost three of ten babies to wet and very cold conditions (she’s still doing her best). My coop has drainage issues that I haven’t been able to address yet so it’s a mucky wet mess. While I was going outside of...
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    How to keep an earth coop floor dry?

    We live in what could very much be considered a small bowl. The road is higher on one side, the foodplot higher on the other, the yard and a neighbors field are higher on both of the other sides. My coop is in a relatively low area by the house so an extension cord can be run when need be rather...
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    Chick color question

    I have a very mixed flock; the breeding age chooks are one RIR male, one BO male, three BSL hens, four BO hens, and five RIR hens. My last chick from a clutch of six hatched yesterday afternoon. I knew when I set that particular egg that it was a black sexlink egg but there’s no way of me...
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    Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad rooster.

    Meet Debbie. We thought he was a girl when he was young because he was a little behind the other cockerels in coloring and such, hence the name Debbie. Debbie is, to put it lightly, a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad rooster. He’s the beta of the flock and has, thus far, attacked me (his...
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    What gender is this Rhode Island

    Alright folks, this seems like a trick question, but bear with me here. What gender does this (fully grown and matured) chicken look to be? The reason I ask: This is/was a hen. I haven’t yet verified whether she is still laying or not. Her wattles have grown significantly since she first...
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    Letting a hen brood in the coop, need advice

    I had a hen go broody and start to set on six eggs on what I’m pretty sure was March 26 based on embryo activity and the drastic incease in egg weight. I have a 100% fertility rate (only six eggs but still a huge accomplishment if you ask me!) and I’d love to have a 100% hatch rate, however if I...
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    Buff Orpington hen acting quite strange

    LONG POST ALERT!! Alright, here goes! The backstory: I purchased my first chicks a year ago on the 18th of March. Six months later, at the end of September, one of the buff orpington pullets I had went broody. She sat dutifully through more than a month (naturally I had to confirm she was...
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    Rats!

    I really need some advice on how to eliminate rats. I live in middle Tennessee, on 17 undeveloped acres. Until we got chickens, we had only had issues with mice in the house and those were caught and eliminated in snap traps or glue traps. Since getting my first chicks a little over a year ago...
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    3 week old chick with broken tail feathers

    So today was the first day that I left the door to my outside brooder open enough for my 25 chicks to mingle with my flock. I thought I had secured the door (it’s an xl wire dog cage with heat lamps in it, covered securely by a tarp) well enough that the bigger ladies and Roos couldn’t get in...
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    TSC bantam breed help??

    I got four bantam chicks (that’s all they had left in store at the time) on March 2 and they looked to be around 3 days or so old at the time. I have looked EVERYWHERE to figure out what the breeds are, and the best I can figure is that the buff ones (I have two of each color pictured) are...
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    Bi-colored Wyandotte chick??

    While tending my brooder babies this morning, I noticed I had two (maybe more) Wyandotte chicks that had the gold markings as little puffballs and have the gold markings on their wings now that they’re a little bigger, but have a lot of silver presenting on their shoulders and upper wing areas...
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    New to the Community!

    Hi everyone! I’m technically new to the community, however I’ve been turning to this site for aid with my flock since I got them! I’m still relatively new to chickens; my first flock (four Orpington ladies and one Orpington roo, three black sex link ladies, and five Rhode Island Red ladies with...
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