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    Tips for incubation

    Hello everyone! My family finally bought an incubator today and it's supposed to get here Wednesday. I was wondering if anyone could give me advice on using an incubator. The incubator routes the eggs on its own and has a candling light in it, it's real fancy sounding. I've heard that one old...
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    Having geese with chickens

    I've got eleven hens and two roosters but am currently waiting for more hens, I know it's not a good ratio. I was looking on the Meyer hatchery site and saw a bunch of breeds of geese. I'd never get a single goose (even if I wanted to, Meyer has a minimum of 2), but I have some questions. If a...
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    What breed are my lovely ladies?

    I think they're black sex-links, but was told they're barnyard mixes. The one that's mostly black does have some orange colour under her head. The chick pics are just to show what the one looked like as a chick, the other two in the first three photos I got when they were already all feathered...
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    Plant fences

    Hello everyone! I have a very large pen for my chickens (bigger than the 50×50 foot hawk net we got by ~20ft). Unfortunately, the fence sucks a little bit. Our one very smartly stupid dog is incredible at breaking in underneath the fence to eat scraps. We fix it constantly but she just breaks it...
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    Famous women inspired pun names

    I'm buying three hens from someone locally. Two are Whiting True Blues (the cream one and light grey with a tan/brown head one) and the dark grey one with a black head is a Blue Andalusian. The cream hen will be Marilhen Monroe, the one with the black head I'm going to name Audrey Henburn. I...
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    Hen survived a hawk attack and I think she's traumatized. Pleasd help!

    I have a white leghorn and she has gotten attacked by a hawk twice. The first time I stopped the hawk before it could hurt her by chasing it away while screaming. I'm not sure what saved her the second time, either the roosters, the livestock guardian dog, pure luck or a combination of those...
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    Hawk attacking flock

    Two days in a row I've lost a hen to what we're fairly certain is a hawk. We've not seen the predator, but our dogs are good at keeping anything on the ground away. Until I can get any netting/wire up (it's a big area with trees, so it isn't something quick and easy to do) how can I scare off...
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    Heat wave tips?

    Hey everyone! I've got a heat wave just starting in BC, Canada (getting close to 40°C) and was wondering if anyone has any tips? My chickens have two things of water (I've got 2 more that I'm about to fill up for the yard), lots of trees and bushes in the pen, a raised coop they can hide under...
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    Yawning while eating

    Hello everyone! I noticed my chicks "yawning" while eating. I've read that means they're adjusting their crop. I never noticed until today. I was away for two days. I bought them a bit over a week ago. They're about 4 weeks old (I forgot to ask what the exact age was). I wouldn't say it's...
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    Update of "I'm very lost"

    The chicks are doing really well so far. I still bring them in to sleep, but as of yesterday they play outside all day. They really love it and the hens don't mind them at all. One hen even relaxed in the sun with the chicks (unfortunately I didn't have my phone to take a picture). They figured...
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    What will my chicks look like?

    Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. I had a barred plymouth rock rooster who had babies with white leghorn hens. I'll attach photos of the parents (I'm not sure which leghorn hens are the mothers) the plymouth hen is the broody that hatched them and raised them for three weeks before...
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    I'm very lost

    Hello! One week ago a bear attacked my coop and killed my mama hen and one chick (and some others, R.I.P.) and none of the other hens took the chicks. They're not broody, so I'm not shocked. I brought them into the house and gave them a safe place to live. I take them out for supervised play...
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    Hello!

    Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I got my chickens last year. We ordered 12 hens but one ended up being a rooster (Joker). We ordered 5 white leghorns (all named Karen) and the rest are plymouth rocks. I spent lots if time socializing them and they're so sweet! This...
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