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    Central Texas hatching eggs

    Hey friends! It's that time of year to teach my students about the wonderful thing we know as life, and life cycles. I am trying to find some folks who have fertilized eggs in/near Central Texas. I live in Austin. I have had chickens in the past and help run our current coop at the school so...
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    Was egg bound and now not walking...

    So on Saturday, after much ruckas from the other hens. I found one of my 6/7 month of BLRW laying on the coop floor with her legs straight behind her with her bottom "pulsating" did the research and figured she was egg bound so I soaked her in warm water (didn't do anything) but her under a heat...
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    Roo or hen?

    So I went back and forth on this guy when he was little. I'm leaning towards rooster, as "he's" very skittish and squawks more randomly then my hens. "He" is about 5 months old. I haven't had any crowing yet. Also, when I was letting them roost in the trees "he" went to the highest branches that...
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    Predator in trees at night?

    Okay, something has done away with 4 of my hens now. I have NO clue what it is. All I know is that it is attacking the hens that are roosting on top of my run at night or in the branches in the trees. The hens all thought they were smart to start roosting in the trees (some have been doing it...
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    Confused

    So one by one my baby chicks have been disappearing. Now I will admit some of it is my fault as many of them were free ranging (along with the chickens and teenager pullets) while I was on bed rest at my parent's house post surgery. ( We came up and checked on them during the day, I didn't just...
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    Rooster chick?

    So I'm in need to know if this little bugger is a rooster. One by one my chicks have gone missing. Most were free ranging, 2 were new babies in the coop. So I had 2 left. One was about a month and a half and then this guy whom I got from someone who got it from someone else. Maybe a little over...
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    movement in egg on hatch day?

    So today is supposed to be day 21 and nothing happened. I started with 12 eggs, went down to 4...decided to candle today (carefully) since nothing was happening, and saw (don't know how I missed it on Friday) 1 bad egg so I tossed it....down to 3 now. Out of those three I candled 2 were hard to...
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    A smell but can't find the egg.

    So when people say there's a "smell" to bad eggs in the incubator, does it smell kind of like hard boiled eggs? I opened the incubator this afternoon to turn the eggs and it smelled like that. I picked up a few eggs but the only one that actually had a resemblance of that smell actually had a...
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    I was bad.......

    So....I'm a single gal who owns a house and a dog and bout my first chicks last summer, when I bought the house. I always intended on having a small flock as it's in an urban area and just me. I started with 8 chicks (thinking some might not survive) all did so I sold 4 of them when they were...
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    I don't know what's wrong with my chicken!

    So I noticed earlier this week one of the wyandottes laid an egg with no shell, just the membrane. I didn't know who because they were both standing by it eating it. Researched it a bit and most peope said it happens occasionally but I've put out some extra calcium source just in case. Then...
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