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    First time using an incubator soon

    A friend asked me to hatch some eggs for him, I have an incubator but haven't taken it out of the box yet because I normally just let my hens hatch chicks and since last year I only got 3 cockerels from hen hatching, I decided to give to incubator a run and see if I can get a decent number to...
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    Stick tight fleas?

    I found these little bugs on my kittens ears, they look like fleas but they were attached to her and I had to pluck them off with tweezers and I dropped them in a cup of bleach. I'm not seeing any on my chicken's yet but I've got 35+ birds to inspect and will be scrubbing down the coops and...
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    Crushed egg advice

    I originally posted in emergency thread but sharing here also since I'm not getting responses over there, here is the original thread: Thread 'Crushed egg advice' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/crushed-egg-advice.1632306/
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    Crushed egg advice

    I saw this egg get stepped on by the hen on the 4th of July, same time when I found a chick rejected by it's mother (I'll link that thread) and candled it before tossing it out and saw the chick still moving in it and it didn't bleed or leak fluids so I decided to place it in the same brooder...
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    4 day old chick not eating

    This chick hatched sometime in the morning 4 days ago under a hen. The hen rejected it and pecked it's head drawing blood so I took it away, washed the wound and applied triple antibiotic. On day 2 I noticed it's legs spread to its sides to which I found splayed legs and bound them together with...
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    Chick with splayed legs

    I have a chick that's nearly 3 days old, it hatched under a hen but she rejected it so I took it inside. It's legs seem to be out to the sides so it's not moving around very efficiently and I taped them together earlier today after finding splayed legs and treatment for it. So far it seems to...
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    Broody question

    After the first chick hatches, how long will the broody stay on the nest for? It's been 3 days and she doesn't appear interested in coming off. Only 1 chick has hatched so far so I put a feeder and waterer in and she has been showing it to eat and drink. I know the eggs are still viable so I...
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    Unknown plant from a bouquet

    2 years ago my husband bought me a bouquet of flowers and in it was this clipping and idk the name of it. I removed the other flowers long ago when they wilted but this one didn't change so I left it in water and after a few months it still looked fresh as if it was just plucked so I've left it...
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    Bloody eggs

    Since this past Saturday I've collected 3 eggs that have come out with the shell bloody. They've all come from 3 separate hens, 1 white egg and 2 different tan eggs but each only laid the 1 bloody egg and the rest come out clean. I've never seen this before but I wanted to double check if this...
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    Ants swarming

    Can someone advise me on what I can safely use around my chicken's to get rid of ants. An ant hill has come up along the fence line of the run right next to the coop and they have been getting inside the coop but most keep swarming around the waterers. Normally when they come up around the yard...
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    Early weaned chicks

    My hen hatched 6 chicks and she's just gone to roost and left them alone and all day kept pecking at them to go away. The chicks are only 2 weeks and 3 days old so I'm concerned they might be too young to be alone. I checked the weather for the next 10 days and we'll be having highs between...
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    Blue earlobes

    I created a post before to help identify these 3 white pullets and the responses were either white rocks or white leghorns. Today I noticed their earlobes are turning a light blue almost turquoise color. My pictures don't show the color very well but does this help identify which breed they are?
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    Warning dead chick question

    I found a dead chick under my broody and I'm trying to guess how long it's been there. Her chicks just started hatching last night or earlier today and this one looks like it was fully formed but it was flat and dehydrated and barely starting to smell like a dead animal so I know it's been dead...
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    Detached or saddled air cells?

    My eggs are coming from my own flock and they are fine when I put them out under the hen but when I candle them at day 7 some have detached air cells. They aren't fully detached but appear somewhat saddled. Is there any way to tell what's causing this and how to prevent it? Out of about 30 eggs...
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    Rooster defending me?

    I've got a first time broody and she is the most feisty broody I've had yet, she attacks me if I go in the coop so I'm moving her to an isolated coop where she can brood alone in peace. Well today I was trying to get things ready so it'll be easier to mover her and the eggs after dark and I was...
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    Broody advice

    I have 2 broody hens that were sitting on eggs, when I last candled them there were at least 6 eggs that were alive and now all the eggs are gone. The eggs were set on May 12th or 13th so this coming Fri-Sat would have been hatch day, my husband put them out this time instead of me and I forgot...
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    What kind of comb is this?

    I have a silver laced wyandotte whose comb is completely smoothe with a indented circle at the top. Neve seen anything like it before and not finding anything online about defects.
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    What breed and gender are these chickens?

    All are 3 1/2 months old now, looking for help identifying breed and gender of all of them. 1. I got these 3 white ones and they were labeled as Cornish X but I know they obviously aren't since they never got fat like meat birds are supposed to. 2. This one came with assorted bantams, it's...
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    Should I egg swap?

    So I have 2 broodies in separate coops, 1 hen had 7 eggs starting out and the other had 6 eggs. One hens eggs stopped developing at different times so I removed them 1 by one and she's down to only 1 viable egg now. The other hens eggs have all continued developing normally. I set all the eggs...
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    Chick emergency

    We put eggs under a hen 2 weeks ago and I assume we missed an egg cause 1 hatched today. It looks fully grown with no defects so I assume there was a hidden egg. I found the chick away from the nest with the hen trying to push it under her and the chick has a wound on both sides of it's head so...
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