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    Is this egg fertile?

    Hello chicken friends! I'm new to hatching/incubating and I can't tell with the eggs as far as fertility goes. I've got a very chill silkie rooster in with some standard sized hens. They all get along as a flock, but I haven't witnessed any "action" so to speak. Everyone I've polled in my...
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    How confident are you at candleing?

    So I've never hatched chicken eggs before. As I've been reading, some people say you can tell when an egg is fertilized after three days, some say to wait until seven, and even others say that they can for sure tell if an egg is doing something after just 24 hours. So what about you guys? When...
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    Stray cockerel trying to join my flock

    Hi everybody! A couple of days ago this mysterious barred rock showed up on my property. I've asked around to my closest neighbors, but none of them have lost a chicken. We never see it coming or going, so I'm not sure where it's roosting. It just seems to materialize in the morning out of...
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    Probably a leghorn?

    I got this chick a week ago from a friend who got it from a different friend. Its history is pretty much unknown. It is notably larger than my polish crested chicks that I got from the feed store, but it doesn't have the heavyset look of a Cornish cross. It doesn't have the Cornish cross...
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    New here!

    Hello everybody. I've had chickens since 2014 and I've been lurking this site since before that. I figured it was finally time to join. I've got a mixed flock of seven laying hens and one bantam rooster. The rooster is a silkie, the hens are wyandotte, leghorn x2, easter egger, barred rock, and...
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