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    3 roosters in need of re-homing

    Hi! We hatched eggs this year and ended up with 4 roosters, but we can only keep 1. They are all about 2.5 months old (11 weeks) and have kind of started to fight and make noise. we have no idea what to do with them so we were hoping someone would want them/ have advice. two of them we think are...
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    2 month old with broken foot?

    i noticed my 2 month old olive egger (cockerel?) had a bent toe. he doesn’t seem to be in pain and can still run and eat, and isn’t really getting picked on by the others too much. what should we do?
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    4-5 week old, came out of a blue egg. What breed/gender is this?

    This is Blue!
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    4 week old chickens - need help determining breed/gender

    These guys hatched on April 28 and are about 4 weeks old now, the eggs came from a farm so we have no idea what breed they would be. A B C D E F
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    2 week olds eating pine shavings

    hello all i have 2 week old chicks and i just switched them from puppy pee pads to pine shavings as their bedding. they are all pecking and eating it a lot and i’m worried about it. they still eat from their food bowl, but it looks like their eating a lot of the smaller shavings. i don’t have...
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    HELP!! Do i need to assist this egg? will it make it??

    this egg has lost a lot of shell but not the membrane! it is not bleeding and we are not sure why. do we assist it? if so HOW? we have never done that.
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    help! don’t know what i’m looking at with this pip

    the pip was on the underside of the egg, but a hatched chick turned it over. it looks like the pip only took off the shell, but the membrane layer is still intact. is this normal??
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    cleaning the incubator DURING incubation?

    Tomorrow is day 18 for my eggs. while refilling the water for the last couple days we've noticed a smell of mold coming from the incubator. this is probably because of the constant water and sponges in it, but we were wondering if it means anything harmful. My dad wanted to spray the inside of...
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    did this egg die?

    we are on day 15 candling and we are not seeing what we wanted :( when we candled on day 9 i saw this baby moving and kicking around, now it looks like it might have stopped developing. hope to have better luck with the other eggs but things are not looking good. don’t know what went wrong
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    no idea what breeds these eggs are

    the eggs currently in our incubator we got from a local farm who said she had no idea what breed they would be! we’ve never hatched green or blue eggs. does anyone know what breeds we could be getting?
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    is candling bad for the embryo??

    i candled all my eggs on day 8 with a homemade candler and couldn’t really see anything, so we got a good candler on day 9 and did it again. On day 10 i candled a few that we weren’t sure of with the bad light again, and removed the ones that weren’t growing. but my dad just candled them AGAIN...
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    is it important to remove infertile eggs

    when candling our day 8 eggs, we removed one that was clearly infertile. There was another that we were unsure about, as it was a dark egg, but it also looked like there was not much going on. Ive heard inferitle eggs can explode in the incubator, is this true? I've also heard that they begin to...
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    questions for brooder box

    hello all, currently have 10 eggs in the incubator. we are on day 9 today and just candled them yesterday. most if not all were showing veining and signs of life, and we are getting pretty nervous with how we are going to accommodate them once they hatch. they grow so fast! wondering if anyone...
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    Don’t know what to do!!

    Hi! We just put our eggs in the incubator yesterday and are already having some troubles. we have 2 brand new, calibrated Govee thermohydrometers placed in the bottom left corner of the incubator and the top right since it is a fairly larger incubator. (we did this because last time we hatched...
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    Where to buy fertile eggs in Maryland?

    We live and Maryland and are searching for a place to buy fertilized chicken eggs for incubating. We know it is a little late in the season but we were wondering if anyone knows of any place or farm where fertile eggs are available to be picked up.
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    Thoughts on this incubator?

    this is the incubator we have that we have used in the past, and are planning to use this year. But we were wondering if looks okay to use since it’s so old. just wondering some thoughts on if it’s worth it to get a new one or not
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    looking for tips

    My family and I tried hatching a dozen chicken eggs for the first time a few years ago. We kept up the temperature, humidity, and rotations exactly as we were supposed to, but when hatch day came only 2 baby chicks ended up hatching. We are trying again this year with a dozen eggs, and we are...
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    How to sex three-week-old chicks?

    Any tips or identifiers to look for in three-week-olds? They all look the same to me:hit
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    2-year old Rhode Island Red laying shell-less eggs

    Our Rhode Island Red, who just came up on her second birthday, is now only laying soupy goopy shell-less eggs. She used to be a star layer and since she started laying, almost never missed a day. We could always rely on there being a huge brown egg in the box every morning. This started about a...
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    Help! Pullet not leaving nesting box and making screetching noises!

    My 6-month old Cinnamon Queen Pullet layed a beautiful egg this morning. Everything was well until I came over after lunch and noticed she was sitting in the box. She had already laid an egg that day so I was confused. I left and came back a few hours later to her still there. She looks...
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