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    Confused by chick behavior

    Fifty years ago I hatched a few bantam chicks (cardboard box incubator) and they were my first chickens and very tame. After a long hiatus I started raising chickens again, for the most part hatching my own. This time standard size chickens for the last 20 years. They never were as tame and...
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    Pink Chickens

    I was trying to breed pink ameraucana type chickens until a pitbull wiped out all my stock except a couple of half frozen eggs. I got one to hatch, that one turned out to be a yellow tinged low blue marked splash hen with great conformation and feathers. The pictured roo was hatched with a...
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    Tough Chick Survival Story

    I'm currently hatching a bunch of Ameraucana eggs and Saxony ducks. One Ameraucana chick opened a small hole the same time as everybody else but didn't emerge. The next day I could see the membrane was papery but a foot was twisted over his bill and decided to help him out. Well, here is...
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    Care free coop

    First let me say I'm retired and have several properties as my husband and I are flipping real estate for retirement income. Small farms is my to go to property so having several running coops is the norm and what I'm about to say will make sense. I have one coop on a property that I've held...
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    Disharmony between breeds?

    I hatched a solitary egg from 6 shipped eggs and needed friends for the lonely wheaton ameraucana roo chick, so I bought 2 barnvelder pullets and 2 starlight green egger pullets. Later I integrated the 5 into an older group of 2 ameraucanas pullets, and one EE roo. All 8 were harmonious for...
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    Eggs hatching wrong what to do?

    I didn't realize my trusty best incubator wasn't turning until nearly the end of incubation. I finally noticed when I kept seeing an egg with a million fine cracks, though developing normally, was always in the same spot. These are shipped eggs. So today is the hatch date and there are a few...
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    Sudden Death half grown chick

    My chick was doing fine the night before. She was fully feathered out with 3 other similar age chicks and one duckling. Her body was appropriately heavy for her size and nothing going on at the vent or head. Just laying dead on the floor. My other chicks and duckling are gentle natured. In...
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    Odd hatch dates

    I'm pretty careful about writing down the hour and date incubation starts but am having very early hatches with shipped eggs from the same seller. My question is the seller selling eggs that have been partially incubated? I received 8 eggs with the first batch, one broken and one egg looked...
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    Chicken Tricks

    A few years ago an ad was posting in my local Craigslist, saying they had two trick roosters for sale. Both knew the trick of playing dead on command and the seller posted pictures of roosters in a prone position as well as normal. I doubted it at the time, but now I thought I'd ask, is it...
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    Hi, From Huntsville Alabama

    Hi, I've raised chickens for many years and had been perfecting my project Ameraucanas to fit my own SOP (sex linked, larger bird/egg and a mutant color) and then disaster hit. A couple of years ago, I trimmed my flock down to one roo and maybe 8 hens for the winter. The roo had a freak injury...
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