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    Late Hatch or Duds?

    I had an assortment of chicken, khaki, Muscovy and goose egg in my bator. According to calendar.. The khaki ducks and chick Should have started hatching 5/2 through 5/15, the geese starting 5/11 and the Muscovy hatching 5/16. The bator was checked several time a day for stats... Had auto turner...
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    Decorative Straw Bale bought at retail store for crafts

    This looks like almost plastic straw? My girls got into the fall decorations and started eating it. Are they going to get sick from it? I'm guessing it isn't real straw and treated with stuff for fire prevention, because its allowed to be used inside according to the fire code for our pumpkin...
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    SLW & ??? / pullet vs roo & unidentified pullet

    These were day old chicks 4/13/12, so at the time of this post they are 2 month old. I'm fairly convinced that out of the 10, 6 are roos IMHO.... but I'm totally guessing with the SLW cause I dont know how to tell with a pea comb. ALL help is appreciated. Any suggestions to the breed of the...
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    Broody now hatching in shared coop

    I have 18, 1 & 2 yr old pullets/hens along with 10 5 wk old straight run chicks our Black Star Mumma just hatched her 1 chick from a clutch of fertilized eggs I bought 3 wks ago.... She has been confined in a space under the nesting boxes all this time separated/protected from the others. Now...
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    PLEASE HELP!!! Set 3/17 no pipping yet - cracked egg open and it was alive

    This is with our own eggs. Last attempt was 100% fertility rate. No hatch though our broody hen left the nest. We have a Little Giant Still Air Incubator with egg turner this time. First 2 times was with a homemade bator. I performed egg-topsies, fully developed. I opened the first egg...
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    What is a "SAFE" breed of dog to have with free range chickens?

    HI all... We'd like to try again for a family dog. My DH & I have serious dog lovers and have our favorite breeds, but need to know what would be a "safe breed"? Know training is the biggest component, but apparently even that doesn't take the hunt/kill prey drive out of them. We had a 13...
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    Monster Egg!!

    This is one of our average eggs next to our Jumbo Jumbo egg. Would have sworn it was going to be a triple yolk! But alas it was only a double.
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    Coop my DH built for our girls

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    First time w/ homemade incubator in Maine

    So we set up a still air styrofoam cooler with a plastic crate, sponge, aquarium heater and a light socket and set 20 variety eggs, and gave 4 to our neighbor's broody hen to watch over. So far doing well with temp and humidity control. Almost feel like I'm touching the eggs too much turning...
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    New to BYC

    Hi all, I'm a Maine Girl Grew up with a small flock of chickens and last May finally convinced my dh to get us a mini flock. 3 Black Austrolorp, 3 RIR, 5 Comets & 2 BO, later we acquired an Americauna/EE. 1 Week ago our beloved Husky 13 month old puppy barged into the run by pushing the...
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