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    Predator attacked 6 week old brahma. Can I help or should I put down?

    I came out to feed the chickens this morning and noticed first that there was a cracked open/eaten egg and raccoon tracks inside of our chicken tractor. It's directly against the coop at night but I close the coop door to keep the chickens safe. I then went inside of the coop and noticed one of...
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    6-7 week old Easter Egger chicks- pretty sure i may have mostly cockerels 🤦😅🤷

    I apologize in advance that these pictures are poor quality. 😝 I tried to take pictures of each chick and it was harder than expected to do by myself. I will create time to do that later. For the purposes of sexing, I'm looking only at my easter eggers (I've also got some buff orps, brahmas and...
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    Integrating 2 rounds of chicks (different ages) to main flock. Brooding outside. Total newb.

    Well, my chicken math has caught up to me and here I am with 9 & 10 week old chicks outside and chicks hatching in the incubator as we speak. I have my 9&10 week old chicks in the coop and my 4 older hens in the tractor right next to the coop. My hope is that I can integrate them and then raise...
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    First time Hatching! Lots of questions! Thanks for your support and encouragement!

    Hey everyone! This is our first hatch and I'm so excited and hope everything goes alright! We're hatching out 18 chicken eggs and 4 turkey eggs (maybe 5 but i think we have a quitter). On day 18, I took the egg turner out for the chicks and separated the turkey eggs by a piece of cardboard so...
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    Uh oh newbie mistake with turkey and chicken eggs put in incubator on same date! Help?

    Ok so, as the thread title states, I put my turkey eggs in on the same day as my chicken eggs so now I have 1 incubator and 2 hatch dates. I have a turkey hen who is broody right now but she JUST started laying, laid about 8 eggs and went broody almost immediately. She's a newb and I've found...
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    Blood or intestinal lining in baby chick's feces?

    I found this in my chick feeder last night. Is it intestinal lining or blood? I'm a newb but this looked like an actual intestine to me so I wasn't immediately too concerned but I definitely want to make sure. Thank you all! I'm learning so much from this community and I'm super grateful for...
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    What breed is this?

    Any guesses on what the breeds of these 3 turkeys are?
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    2 week old easter egger chick getting aggressive

    Hey BYC community, I have 7 easter eggers (sold to me as ameraucanas but we know how that goes) and there is one in particular who is black and white and stands upright with their neck stretched tall that is becoming quite aggressive. (Based on tail feather sexing and the size of feet I suspect...
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    First time hatching. How many can I expect? Is there a market for my mixed breed extras?

    So I've been chicken sitting for my neighbor and let me tell you, the eggs are certainly fertile. Those poor hens are going bald from the rooster. Anyways, I was wanting to increase my flock and felt it would be wise to get an incubator and hatch some of these fertile eggs. Well, I went ahead...
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    New chick sneezing even after a week of VetRX, seems otherwise fine but in quarantine.

    We brought 7 chicks home from the feed store 11 days ago and added them in with the 7 easter egger chicks we got about a week prior to that. (I didn't realize at the time that I should have quarantined new chicks at first. Fortunately there hasn't been a problem with other birds.) I noticed the...
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    I'm new here and I'm turning into a crazy chicken lady

    Hey everyone! I have helped raise chickens before but I've only had a small adopted flock of hens which are fully mine to care for for just over a year now. I just added some easter eggers, cuckoo marans, buff orps and a couple of brahma to my flock. We're handling them a lot so hopefully...
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