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    Our first egg!

    🥰💙 Of COURSE they save it for when my husband and I are out of town, but we’re so happy our son got to be the one to find it. Our first egg, YAY!
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    Incubation question - chicks forming where air cell is?

    So I noticed something when doing a candling - on a shipped egg, where the air cell was detached, a chick had started forming where the air cell was. I've been leaving eggs room temp for 24 hours before putting them in the incubator, then not turning for 72 hours (3 days) before I put them in...
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    Nature-Themed Hatch-Along

    I decided to do one final hatch-along for the summer! Hubby was more than supportive of me turning my half of our gaming room into an "incubation station" and there was a deal for 48 eggs for $47, so I decided to jump on it! 🤭 It ended up including purebred Ameraucana and we even got an...
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    Big Dessert-Themed Hatch-Along

    Here we go, round 2! The others have under 2 weeks left, and I'm excited! We had ordered 12 ultra rare potluck eggs from Cackle. A few were broken in transit (poor Silkie, 55 Flowery, Black Copper Marans, and... either a B or an R labeled on the last egg, I couldn't tell). But thankfully with...
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    Another post of poop pics - coccidiosis?

    It has been SO so rainy here and we did not put new bedding down in our run. I’m so worried I hurt our chickens by letting the run get rainy the past few days. :( Everyone is acting normal so I dunno whose this is… If it is coccidiosis, can I get a confirmation of treatment? ;( We’ve got 19...
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    Silver Laced Wyandottes - Break my heart!

    I can absolutely get better pics tomorrow, but I’ve got 4 SLWs from a straight run and based on patterning being messy on three I’m thinking maybe 3 are boys? 🤔 They’re 8 and a half weeks old! I know the combs aren’t totally right on all either: they were from TSC! SLW 1: SLW 2: SLW 3...
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    Our first ever (coop) build!

    To be fair, it’s our first build… at all! Please do be gentle with feedback as we really put a lot of time, money, and love into it - but we absolutely do want to get feedback on how to make it better! We still need to fill in the bitty cracks in the wall, which we are in process of right this...
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    My First Hatch-Along (Character Themed)

    Hello everyone! I was originally going to wait until Day 5 in case absolutely none of these end up viable, but I'm hoping by committing now means there will hopefully be lots of life waiting in these sweet eggs. This is my first ever Hatch-Along. I was wanting to plan, and prep, and wait for a...
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    Slightly dirty egg - incubation

    Hi all! My first eggs got here! 🥰 Facing two tiny hiccups. One: the egg is a little dirty. I’ve read to not incubate dirty eggs and to not wash them to clean up before incubation. How dirty is too dirty? This was the extra sent with my batch of 12, bringing us up to 13. The other eggs were all...
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    Bantam Frizzle Cochin - Color?

    Well the listing said Red OR White OR Black were possible as the only colors. And he looks different from the white ones but has more white than I expected for a red. Is he going to be fully red when grown? 💙 He just seemed to have a little of everything so I was confused. 🤭
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    Shipped eggs in incubator

    So, we took the plunge and have 20 shipping eggs arriving Saturday! My plan was to immediately (carefully) unpackage them and set them fat end up at room temperature next to the brooders in an egg carton for 24 hours. My question is: to help continue to let the air cells reattach, do we take...
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    First Incubator - Maticoopx30 - Practice?

    Hello all! I decided to splurge and got us the Maticoopx30. It's my first ever incubator! I've been eyes deep in research the past few days, and intend to continue through it deeply the next few months. We don't PLAN to incubate any eggs over the next while, as I want to be sure I've properly...
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    2+ week old Silkie - limping

    Hello all! We're not sure how it happened, but today we got up to our little Splash 2 week old Silkie chick limping. There is no OBVIOUS sign of injury. I tenderly felt both legs and they feel similar, yet its right leg is just limp when the chick is lifted up. It doesn't seem to want to put any...
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    Am I going nuts? Bantam chick “crowing”?

    Editing in video from another chick, same age and behavior! SILLY little guys! I need to try to catch it on video, but I kept hearing this sound from the garage and I went to go check. It was this tiny, high-pitched “bree-dee-dee” sort of sound from a very pink combed Bantam we’ve got. We got...
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    Roosting Bar Design - Is it okay?

    So tomorrow is the day we build the roosting bars to attach to the walls of the coop! They'll be attached to the studs of the walls to make sure they're EXTRA extra secure with extra support on both sides. I know the drawing is a really poor visual of it, but I'm hoping I can explain my idea...
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    Wry Neck? - Few-Day Old Silkie Chick

    Context; We got this baby and 14 others this morning. They were shipped. This one was underneath all the other chicks however was NOT showing any signs of listlessness. It is, however, frequently bent over backwards or with its head turned to the side. My concern is that it is wry neck, and if...
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    Mystery Chick Update - What am I?

    Got this cutie in the Rhode Island Red straight run bin a couple weeks ago. I think 2-3 now? Gosh, time is flying! I feel like an very disorganized chickie parent not keeping better track, but it was a week of "ooh, another chick!' from several trips to TSC. 🤭 This was the baby as... a baby...
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    Baby chick - missing from garage?

    So for first context, we brood in our garage. (Our oldest chicks are a little over 8 weeks old and out in the temp. coop. We're almost finished with our BIG one which we plan to add an 'introductory coop' to beside for easier brooding and flock integration because man, garage brooding is...
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    Toe count - genetic?

    So one of our mystery chicks from Cackle Hatchery was a Crazy Cackle Toppie. It's got a really fun personality so far. But I noticed it's got five toes on one foot (the one splits into two horizontally where Silkies' toes do) but on the other foot, it only has four toes. I was just mildly...
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    Roo’d awakening time? 8 weeks - genders/breeds?

    First of all, please forgive the mess. We’ve had SO much rain and I took these before tidying the run. 🤭 These babies will soon have a huge new run and coop and get to integrate with our other babies! However… We need to know who we need to try to rehome or cull, roos-wise. The problem is they...
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