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    Broken Eggs

    Hello ya`ll I need help w a problem. My chickens seem to be eating their eggs. I don`t understand why because I keep enough treats for them to pick on like veggies & cabbage heads plus their food bucket stays full. I also started collecting the eggs more often but somehow they still manage to...
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    Rooster with bad leg please advice

    Last year I had a RI Red rooster that looked like he had a dislocated leg cause he would walk on his whole entire leg instead of just his foot. I had him isolated because I thought maybe he was being picked on by the other chickens. Well I no longer have that rooster, except I now have a BB Red...
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    Blood butts on the chickens?????HELP PLEASE

    I noticed a couple of days ago that a couple of my hens where having a really bloody bottom. I immediately thought that either perhaps the roo was being too rough or the hens were hurting themselves by laying larger than normal sized eggs. I pulled the roo out of the coop and then noticed today...
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    Selling Eggs

    I currently have 22 hens and most of them are laying so I'm getting between 10 to 17 eggs daily. Can anyone advice me how I can go about selling the eggs. I mean we love fresh eggs for breakfast at our house but that's way too many eggs lol. Does anyone in here live in Connecticut that can share...
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    Feeding the chickens crushed egg shells??????

    Hello BYC friends I live in Connecticut and a friend of mines that has chickens in FL told me that she crushed the egg shells, baked them and fed them back to her chickens. Is this ok to do? What are the nutritional values of feeding the chickens the crushed egg shells of their own eggs. I...
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    Intergrating flocks with multiple roosters involved PLEASE HELP!!!!!

    Greetings friends, Just recently we picked up a new flock of chickens from someone that lived in the city. They came to find out that their city ordinance did not allow chickens in their area. We live in the country and have plenty of room. Right now I have the new flock in my chicken tractor...
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    My Auracanas are not laying yet ;-(

    Greetings yall back in June I bought 7 new pullets one black star and 6 Auracanas. Actually they were still chicks when I bought them.Well as of yet I have seen my Black Star lay her first eggs. I have been getting an egg from her every other day or every two days since last week. My Auracanas...
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    Time for Lockdown....how long do I keep chicks in bator after hatching

    Greetings BYC friends after the whole ordeal of losing power and being worried about my eggs everything turned out ok. I candled eggs several times and they seemed ok. My question is once I set my eggs on lock down how long do I keep the chicks in the incubator after they hatch? Also after they...
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    incubating day 11 & had a power outage HEEELLLPPPP PLEASE

    I'm incubating 12 eggs for my first time temp has been between 100° to 102° & humidity has been between 55% to 61%. My question is we had a power outage been without power for bout four hours now what can I do to help my eggs the temp has dropped to about 86° & the humidity has shot up to 88%...
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    Incubating first time what are proper temp & humidity???

    Greetings BYC friends I wanted to incubate my own eggs so I searched on youtube how to make my own incubator. After looking at tons of videos the search was on to find a cooler big enough where I could fit an egg turner into. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any styrofoam coolers big enough...
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    New to BYC my question is about Troublemaker hens???

    Greetings all my name is Ralph I am new to this forum even tho I have been looking through the BYC site for quite a while now. I had three hens and just recently added a fourth hen and a rooster to my poultry family. Two of my other hens keep picking on the new hen poor thing is always running...
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