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    I think my hatchling got too hot.

    I guess my infared thermometer is off a bit. I put the heat lamp above a new hatchling and measured just under 100F. After a while it went limp and I thought it was dead. It was still breathing, but not responding. I took the heat lamp off and it seemed to recover after a while; it can move it's...
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    All the hens favor the last nesting box

    I have a total of 8 nesting boxes but a few of the hens favor the last one. There was 3 in this one just before I took the picture. They do use the other boxes but for some reason, they favor this one. I'm wondering if I should try and separate them. I think I may have got them to stop crapping...
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    Selling fertilized eggs

    I have 12 hens and 3 roosters and I'm getting about 10 eggs a day. I just told the lady at the P.O. who also sells eggs to have people call me that want eggs. I noticed a white embryo attached to the yolk when I break 'em open and I figured that's because the roosters are in with the hens. Is...
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    swoolen feet - could it be gout?

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    Chicken tastes like leather

    I have way too many RIR roosters and finally butchered one of them today. I tried cooking it over coals and that didn't work out. Burnt on the outside and red inside. So I cooked the rest of it up in a pan with butter. Very hard to chew. Like leather. I've had them since the start of May...
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    butchered my first chicken today

    I have 27 RIRs and I've had them since they were chicks the beginning of May so I think they're full grown now. There's 21 roosters so I've been meaning to cull most of them. I was gone a few hours yesterday and when I came home one of them was just laying on the ground and the others were...
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    One of my roosters acts different from the rest.

    I've had 11 roosters and 6 hens for about 4 months now, and one of the roosters keeps following me and comes down to the cabin when he sees me come out. He will dance around my feet, scratch the ground and get down on his belly. He doesn't want to be picked up and will try to bite me. I call him...
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    Want to introduce 1 mo. old chicks to 3 month old birds. How should I feed the little ones the starter food?

    I bought 27 Rhode Island Reds back in May as a straight run. Now that they are about 4 months old, I found I have too many roosters for the hens (11/6). So about 1 month ago I went back and got 10 more. The guy at TSC tried to sex them for me so I'm hoping I got more hens now. The little ones...
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    trying to sprout wheat berries

    I have a lot of wheat berries I've been storing in 5 gallon buckets for about 10 years and I poured some into another 5 gallon bucket, soaked and rinsed several times and they don't seem to want to sprout. They have a bad smell. I'm wondering if they are bad. I gave some to my birds and they...
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    Pavlovian Response

    I just finished reading the "Chickens won't go in coop at night" thread and was wondering if it would be possible to scatter food at the door of the coop while blowing a whistle or ringing a bell to train your girls to come to the coop.
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