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    Egg candleing question

    I set eggs 5 days ago. Most have the typical spider or clear. I have some showing almost solid, like a day 18 of so egg. The mass moves a little like it's liquid. Could this be a "bad egg" that needs to be removed? I usually leave eggs in , even ones not developing, until day 14 of so, just in...
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    Want to raise numbers

    Hi all, long time no heard from me. I decided to get quail this fall and have been busy with that project. Now it's time to work with my chickens again.I have 5 separate pens and need to raise the numbers of certain breeds. I have only one black copper maran hen and a blue copper maran...
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    What age do cockerels start getting tough

    I have an 11 week old cockrel that I want to butcher. He was top dog in a pen with 4 older cockrel and 7 pellet s. He is a lavender Orpington and has feather issues so I don't want to use him for breeding. He was so wary of me I was surprised to catch him. So, should I butcher him now or...
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    Lemon cuckoo or Buff

    This is She'ra, sold to me as a Lemon Cuckoo Orpington chick. She's around 18 weeks now and I was just wondering if she is truly a LC or buff. Any thoughts are appreciated.
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    Special needs chick Please Help

    I started a thread "Need help with saddled air cell in shipped egg" so if you want history go there. I did get help from some great kids, mainly @MGG ,love that girl. Now I have a special needs chick named a week into incubation, Lucky Number Seven. As you can see she is at least missing an...
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    Need help with saddle air cell in shipped egg

    I bought eggs from an inexperienced shipper. Sent them in an egg carton inside a box with nothing on the out side. Four of twelve were crushed. I educated him on shipping and he sent four replacements. Anyway, I incubated the eight and one tough soul has made it to hatch. We are at day 21 and...
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    Pox or canker?

    This is my 10 week old pullet easter egger. What is this on her beak? Any help is greatly appreciated. As soon as I see how to upload the picture.😅
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    Brody hen question

    I have been incubating a bantam egg and it's due Monday or Tuesday next week. I have a bantam hen, could be the true mother, that has gone brody. If I give her the egg will she hatch it and take care of the chick after only sitting on it for a week?
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    Isabella cuckoo orpington roo x lemon cuckoo orpington hen

    Would I make a mess of color if I crossed an Isabella cuckoo roo with a lemon cuckoo hen?
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    Are my eggs fertile?

    I'm not very good at forums or what ever this is called and want to ask what you think about the fertility of some eggs I'm hatching for the first time but really don't know how.:idunno I was able to get the pictures loaded but that's as far as I can seem to get. don't know where to post. I...
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    Not sure which thermometer to trust.

    I just got home from picking up hatching eggs, three hrs to get home. I candled with my phone (real candler will be her Tuesday) to mark what I think is the air sack. Letting them rest for a few hrs. Problem is when I checked incubator which has been on for a few days, the incubator said 100°...
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    New ( again) to chickens

    I'm Clappy, a name high school students have me back in the 90's. Yes, I am old. I mentioned to my oldest daughter a few weeks ago that I was thinking about getting some chickens. She said I have some you can have. She has bantams and a friend of a friend had given her some more. She shows up a...
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