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    Something has infected our flock - help!

    About two weeks ago we had a hen who got a swollen up in the face. She was otherwise acting well, but we pulled her and ended up culling - she obviously had something wrong with her and we didn't want to risk spread. This morning when I let everyone out I noticed two of my three month olds...
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    Swollen eyes and head in hen

    I noticed yesterday that one of my hens looked sort of puffy around her eyes. Today she's much worse - very swollen around the eyes and comb, and her comb is fairly pale. I thought her eye was swollen closed but it was stuck shut. Her feet also seem swollen. I've separated her and she's alert...
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    All hens suddenly stopped laying, and other issues

    Reaching the end of all ideas...help? We have a flock of 20 chickens - 17 hens and 3 roosters. Two of the hens are 3 years old, one rooster. And a handful of hens are a year, and the rest will be two years in December. We also have 17 littles who hatched in August, who will be replacements...
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    Need really fast help - wafer blew and hatch is in progress

    Son of a bleep. I've got a HovaBator 1602n running right now - the model with the wafer thermostat. I've got 22 eggs in there, we're late day 20. Five are pipped, one chick almost out, and we heard a huge *PING*.....temp has dropped to 96*. I'm hovering over it, adjusting it non-stop, trying...
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    Six hour old chick - spraddle legs?

    This chick is about six hours old. It hatched with no assistance and was sort of flopping funny, different than they usually do straight from the egg. I've been watching closely, and when s/he gets excited both legs start kicking and the babe ends up on his/her back, legs kicking around. S/he...
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    Issues with naval opening - what did we do wrong?

    We're seven chicks in to our first incubator hatch - we've had multiple hatches before but always with a broody, so no fuss on our end. I've still got nine eggs in there, five are pipped and four don't appear to be through the window - although one chick exploded out of an egg that I didn't...
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    Impacted crop or something else?

    Two days ago I noticed one of the girls acting oddly....in hindsight she was off the day before as well. When I picked her up I was shocked at how large her crop was - seriously, it was gigantic, very soft and squishy. Her beak smelled horrible and she very obviously had some sour crop going...
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    Hova-Bator 1602n and temp issues

    My husband bought a hova-bator 1602n second hand, and left it to me to try and figure out. It came with no instructions or manual, and I don't even know if all of the pieces are there. I've got the incubator, the water tray and piece of mesh for the bottom. The lid has the thermostat (no fan...
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    Very swollen earlobe and neck - tick

    Help!! Everyone was fine this morning (at least as far as I noticed). We were just doing a big scrub down of the coop and feeders/waterers, and my dh yelled that there's something wrong with one of the girls. We caught her - she had a large tick attached at the bottom of her earlobe. We...
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    Um, so what do I do when they hatch?

    My broody is on 10 eggs in a rubber tub in the house. The chicks are peeping loudly and are due to hatch in the next 48 hours. Just realized that I should probably have an idea of what to do when they hatch. Should I take the chicks and put them in a brooder under heat? Leave them in the tub...
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    Peeping and scratching

    Through a bizarre series of events, we've ended up with a broody hen on 10 eggs in a plastic tote in our bedroom closet - doh. This is our first time hatching eggs, and I swear everything crazy that can happen has. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong and it will be a miracle if we end up with...
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    Hatching eggs with a hen - would it be possible to move her?

    Sigh. Stressing me out. :lol: I had a hen go broody, and we decided to try to hatch some eggs with her. She was sitting in the middle of three nesting boxes. I moved her out to a separated small coop because our other hens were pushing in and laying in the nest she was sitting on, and she...
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    Ugh, should I keep my broody closed in or not?

    We had a change of plans last night. :lol: Instead of putting our broody girl up by the house we changed it up. Last year we build a small grow-out coop that we cycled the chicks through. Halfway through the summer we moved it down by the big coop and started using it for feed storage, then...
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    Need a quick lesson on hatching eggs with a broody hen

    So one of my hens went broody about a week ago. Someone one this board who is local has been kind enough to offer me some fertilized eggs for her to sit on (our only roo is still a babe). I'm picking them up on Friday morning....I know there's a thread here about hatching with a hen, but it's...
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    Opinions on booting my chicks outside please?

    Hi everyone! I've been a member for almost a year now - I don't often post but read daily. I've got 11 laying hens - seven RIR's, 3 Australorps, and one Welsummer - believe it or not, all have laid nearly daily all winter until the last week, when one of the Australorps went broody. We're...
  16. lemuckley_flock

    Hello! My intro!

    Hello everyone! We're so excited to have found this forum! My boyfriend/partner/whatever you call someone you're committed to but not married to have recently found ourselves desiring chickens, and got ourselves 8 little gals about two weeks ago. We live in Tennessee and are enjoying the...
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