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    White and black spots on comb and wattles

    This is my neighbors chicken and they asked me what i thought and I'm thinking this is from previous bullying and the lighter spots are from healed scabs or its fowl pox. Google images aren't helpful enough. Does anyone have any idea what this is and any relevant details regarding cause...
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    Extra clump of shell on egg

    Has anyone ever seen an egg with clumps like this on the edge. My ladies range from 2 years to 9 months and this is my first like this. Is this bad?
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    Picking on one chicken

    My current flock has been established for a few months except 2 roos have come into their roles. Now 2 of my ladies, maybe 3, have of started pecking on one of the others. She was cornering herself trying to keep the from pecking her head and now she had a good chunk of feathers missing from her...
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    Boy vs girl

    I have a feeling we have more boys than girls in this bunch of 6....can I get help in determining their genders?
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    Honking/gurgling

    So the other day after eating grains and not realizing they were out of water, one of my chickens started making this honking noise and chalked it up as something being stuck in her throat. I massaged her crop and used oil to help loosen up anything. Now she has this gurgling noise. She is...
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    Hatch rate incubator vs genetics

    Most of our eggs hatched but in one incubator about 50% haven't hatched and we are on day 23. If the other chicks that hatched are healthy and hatched on day 20, can we rule out that it was humidity/temperature and that it was more likely weak genes or is it something else?
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    50% hatched so far

    So we had 5 incubators with 8-9 eggs in each (started with 10 and removed unfertile/undeveloped eggs after candling) ALL eggs hatched in 3 of them but about half in 2 haven't pipped/hatched as of yet. 1 unfortunately didn't make it bc 1. It pipped at the bottom of the egg and since they were...
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    Incubating 101

    We have 4 homemade incubators for a science fair project and one old electric on but the rotating mechanism is broken so we will be rotating by hand. I wanted to ask actual people experienced in this since everytime I research it, it changes ... 1. Do you store them on their sides or little...
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    Can you incubate eggs that have been sitting at room temp (70-74) for several days?

    My daughter has a science fair project and my source of eggs ran out so I need to use mine. Since I wasn't planning on using them they have been sitting on the shelf and I need to use 50 at the very minimum. Will we have success in hatching these? I've read people have eggs shipped and eggs...
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    Dirty feathers

    So I had what I am sure was a boutique of feather lice. I have been dipping them in permethrin and have sprayed the coop twice now. I still had the one chicken that still seems to have dirty looking feathers. Is it possible she is just not grooming herself as well? I don't see any crawlies but...
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    Permethrin treatment inconsistencies

    After much research I settled on .25 of the 10% solution in a 32 oz (1 quart) spray bottle being that for poultry the label says 1:200. However, I'm not entirely confident it was strong enough but I wanted to do something rather than nothing until I got a better idea. I sprayed the whole coop...
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    What is on my chickens feathers?

    Can anyone tell me what this is on their feathers? I did a deep clean of my coop over the weekend and saw this. They otherwise look fine in the vent area, no crowding around the shafts of the feathers based on what I've seen of lice and mites on Google. It has been humid and damp and am...
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    Bantam mixed with full sized

    I ended up with a bantam rooster and he is fertilizing all my full size hens eggs....is this okay? What would the potential chicks look like?
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    Newby with Roosters

    I started my flock last October with a straight run. Long story short I have acquired 3 bantam roosters and 1 bantam hen. The bantams were separated from my larger ladies but now, 1 full grown rooster is with them on their side. There is another rooster chick in the house (about to out him in...
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    Why did my hen die?! 😭

    We had been mending one our hens that was severely pecked so she had been inside for a couple of weeks. She started laying while inside while the others her age havent started yet. Over the past few days she has been more and more restless to get outside and so we followed her lead. When the sun...
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    Help! Indoor chicken in the making

    We removed our young hen (can start laying any day now) from the flock due to injuries from being bullied/pecked. Well, I think she is loving it so much inside, I do not see her thriving if I put her back outside. She is a salmon favorelle and I have already had one drop dead on me (literally)...
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    Bullied hen

    Recently I merged batches and weaned them together well over the course of like 6 weeks. When it happened one of my ladies went broody. I probably let it linger too long because she got meaner and started bullying one of our other hens. The injured hen was pecked pretty badly. Her comb got...
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