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  1. GemmaGA

    Chick is making noise - no external pip all the way through membrane - what next????? (First hatch!! help)

    Yesterday was day 0 on my incubator for about 13 eggs. One egg had a chick chirping/peeping but had not shown external pip all the way through membrane. After seeing still no pips at all this morning, checked the noisy egg and can still hear some noise, but has not broken all the way through...
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    GemmaGA: My Suburban Homestead/Self-Sufficiency Journey!

    So we started with backyard chickens a couple years ago (it really is the gateway drug to farm life....don't ya know...) About a year ago, we bought a new house on 4 acres. It's just on the edge of the suburbs out here in Northeast GA. I love this house. It needs work, and it's a little...
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    My approach to integrating new chicks - suggestions welcome!

    So with eggs in the incubator currently, I thought maybe I would share what I hade done last summer to integrate some EE chicks into my established flock, and hopefully the same approach will work for my new chicks. Any suggestions are appreciated. A little info about my coop/run: Coop is...
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    So this probably is a really dumb question, but....

    My beloved rooster, Scuba, who was like a pet to me (he was awesome!) was killed by a predator about 2 weeks ago. I am pretty sure I had collected fertile eggs before he was taken, but they have been in the refrigerator. Even if I did have fertilized eggs, it's probably been too long for them...
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    Hatch-A-Long; GemmaGA's Very First Incubator Hatch!

    Hello fine people of BYC! So my husband bought me an incubator for Christmas. We lost some chickens to a predator including my totally awesome, super spectacular roo, Scuba. May he rest in peace. :( So I decided to try my hand at hatching some eggs - I set them yesterday (02/16/2022)...
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    Anyone have a Black Splash Cochin x Silver Spangled Hamburg chics? Pics please :)

    I hatched one of my hens eggs this year and I am fairly certain the hen was one of my Silver Spangled Hamburgs. My rooster is a black splash cochin bantam. I am interested to see if anyone else has any chicken offspring from this breed combo and what they look like? My bird I believe is a...
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    I think I messed up...HELP!

    So I have a few hens that are broody, and have had one egg hatch so far out of the clutch the ladies are 'sharing'. Today, I noticed another chick had pipped and in my excitement decided to help the chick out. The hen that was sitting on it won't go back on the nest and is ignoring the peeps...
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    Dust Baths!

    Maybe I am an oddball, but one of my favorite things about having chickens is watching them taking dustbaths! Followed by watching them scratch around when they free-range... but this is all about the dustbath! Anyone else enjoy just watching their chickens taking a dustbath? I think it's the...
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    Two Questions - HUGE Poop and a Broody....

    So, one of my gold laced wyandottes seems to be Broody - but not consistently? For about 3 days straight, she didn't want to get out of the nesting box and showed typical broody behavior (i think) even though she didn't have any eggs to sit on. I tried giving her one of the other girls eggs...
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    RIP OGEB Roo :(

    So I have posted in the past about one of my chickens, an OGEB roo originally named ducky but generally just called him curse words because he liked to flog me all the time. He was the top roo out of my two boys for a while, but recently my Bantam Cochin roo has been the top fella in my flock...
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    So...how much longer?

    I posted a week or so ago that I got my first eggs! I was very excited - I now have 3 of my 7 pullets laying daily. They are all almost 7 mo old at this point. My obvious question.....how much longer before the rest start laying? Here's who's laying and who's not (breed wise) Currently...
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    Hemp Bedding...

    So this is our first time having chickens, and after lots of research my hubby was adamant that we use hemp bedding. So far it's been awesome - keeps odor at bay really well, doesn't get wet and soppy like pine shavings seem to. Just wondering if other folks use hemp bedding in their coop and...
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    What would I get if.....

    So we have a pretty eclectic mixed flock of 9 chickens total. My GLW pullet is actively laying and is often mated by our Black Splash Cochin Bantam rooster. If I were to hatch those eggs at some point, what kind of chicken might I get? Anyone have any crosses like this? I posted this in the Egg...
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    What would I get if.....(moved to genetics forum)

    So we have a pretty eclectic mixed flock of 9 chickens total. My GLW pullet is actively laying and is often mated by our Black Splash Cochin Bantam rooster. If I were to hatch those eggs at some point, what kind of chicken might I get? Anyone have any crosses like this? Thanks in advance for...
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    First Eggs!

    So I have a total of 7 pullets/hens. Guess they are all technically still pullets since they are only 26 weeks old. One of my GL Wyandotte girls started laying over the weekend! :) So exciting! She is averaging one small brown egg per day, and man are they gorgeous eggs! They have...
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    Spangled OEGB Roo - FREE to a good home (Atl GA area)

    I have a 22 week old Spangled OEGB cockerel that needs to be rehomed. I have him, another cockerel the same age and 7 pullets (same age). Hand raised them all together from chicks. My OEGB roo is very aggressive towards me, and has gotten to the point that he has no fear of me at all. He is...
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    Pictures of my Georgia Girls!

    The more recent photos are of half of my 18 week old pulleys, the other pictures are of my mixed flock (pullets and cockerels) at various stages of growth.
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    Check out my coop!

    My husband designed and built this coop for our small flock of 9 chickens. What do you think? We've since added a fenced area out in front of the coop to make a nice little chicken yard for our birds.
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    Hello from Georgia!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, I got my first chicks back at the end of April 2020, and they are 17 weeks old! (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I started out with 10, but one of my Polish died at about 6 weeks :( I have 9 currently. (3) What...
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    My Spangled OEGB Cockerel is ROTTEN!

    So I raised this cockerel from a baby chick. I spent a lot of time with all my chickens when they were babies, hand feeding them and just spending time with them as they grew up. For the most part, all of my birds are friendly, or at the very least tolerate me. But not this guy....he's very...
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