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    Hatching help needed

    My son is showing chickens at the fair this week. One hen from his breeding pen has been sitting on eggs. We candled them Tuesday before we brought her and one egg was pipped internally. We brought her nest and got her settled but when we came back in the morning she was off her nest. We...
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    Muscovy egg hatching help!

    My muscovy hen hatched 11 ducklings yesterday. This morning she had left the nest with them and left this egg behind. It had pipped and its beak was moving. I'm warming it up with a heating pad and I moistened the membrane and chipped back the shell. It started to look a bit pink so I...
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    Raising meat chicks in a tractor?

    I have 50 freedom rangers set to arrive at the end of May. We're getting a new barn built and I planned to build their coop inside of that but it has been delayed. It was supposed to be built in January, then March, now April but I'm concerned it'll be delayed again. I thought about building...
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    Rescued pigeon seems agitated

    A banded homing pigeon landed at our farm last week. He seemed exhausted. We gave him water and food and let him rest. We checked his bands but I haven't been able to find anything on the numbers/letters. We tried to release him the next day but he seemed to have trouble flying. He tried to go...
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    Roost design

    I have 34 6 week old chicks and 14 3 week old chicks. Our coop is a converted shed approximately 15'x15'. I'm having trouble deciding how to design the roosts. The box in the picture was their brooder and will be coming down and the roosts will go where the blue lines are. How should they be...
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