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  1. Sunyoung

    Leghorn chicks breathing fast. I hear a clicking sound coming from 2 of them when they breathe. Coul

    I honestly don't know how to help her. However, I spoke to an avian vet a while back and she told me that clear, runny poo is urine? It was a long while back and I think that is what she had said. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can give you some advice for her. Until then, good luck and...
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    45 week old Ameraucanas still not laying!

    I hate to say this, but I know how you feel. One of my pullets is 43 weeks old and the others are roughly around the same age. I sold two of my girls (the 43 week old's hatchmates) and three days later, the OE that I sold laid her first egg. Later that night, I felt the pubic bones on all of my...
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    Pullets hatched September 2012 & waiting for eggs?

    My oldest pullet is supposedly an Ameraucana. However, I suspect that it may actually be an Olive Egger. My Delawares didn't start laying until they were roughly 26 weeks old - and thought that was very late for most pullets. Now, I wish my pullets would have started that early!
  4. Sunyoung

    Will hen adopt chicks without being broody?

    Personally, I've never heard of a hen that is not broody adopt chicks. I wouldn't try forcing her to raise them. However, that is ultimately your choice. Just keep a very close eye on them - many hens will kill chicks should they feel like not being broody - and even when they are broody, I've...
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    Pullets hatched September 2012 & waiting for eggs?

    Truthfully, I'm waiting on all four of my girls to start laying. Only one of them has an excuse as to why she isn't laying. She had been attacked by a hawk about a month or two back and is regrowing her feathers.. up until then, she had been the only one laying (she is the oldest at 1 and a half...
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    Two strange eggs without shells

    If everyone looks and acts normal and since they are coming out of winter molts, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It can take a little while for their systems to get back into the swing of things.
  7. Sunyoung

    Flying / Jumping over the fence w/ cut wings ? Can I put a weigh on a foot to stop it ?

    Do your chickens have both wings trimmed or just one? If trimming both wings, this can lead to the birds' wings to be even stronger (since it still has balance - just has to work harder at flight). If you trim just one wing then it has no balance for flight and will sort of just... "helicopter"...
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    Adding chicks to flock?

    If you let one of your hens hatch some eggs then I don't see why that would be a problem. Just make sure the nest box that she uses while broody is low to the ground for the chicks' sake. That way if the chicks were to fall out or jump out of the nest box, they'd still be able to get back in...
  9. Sunyoung

    40-week-olds not laying yet

    Two are Ameracanas bought from someone who was just starting out with breeding Ameraucanas at the time I believe. I sexed them with some help from memebrs of BYC since... At just about 10 months, it would be hard not know if you had a roo hiding among your flock. The other one is a Cochin...
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    40-week-olds not laying yet

    That's not a typo. I have not one, not two, but THREE forty week old girls that have yet to lay their first eggs or start squatting. Am I doing something wrong? It just seems very unusual to me. I have everyone on grower feed right now with oyster shells and grit as free-choice.
  11. Sunyoung

    What are my chickens doing in these pictures?

    They were dustbathing (as many others have already said). It's funny to watch and perfectly normal. Mine usually do it as a social thing too - very funny to see. And to show that it's a normal and natural instinct - even my chicks love doing it...
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    Eggs due to hatch tomorrow - but I am sick with flu!

    Here she (because if you call it a she, it will become a she... right? ) is about five hours ago. Still the only one hatched, but we have four pips and are now waiting for the last pip. Hopefully will have more chicks tonight. The hatched chick is way more active than I thought she'd be and...
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    Eggs due to hatch tomorrow - but I am sick with flu!

    As of ten minutes ago... The black marks on the side of the shell are part of a silly face that my dad drew when he gave me the egg. ETA: There is one other that has pipped too. And I hear just a tiny bit of peeping earlier.
  14. Sunyoung

    Give me some good news...

    I may be wrong, but if you hear it peeping, it's internally pipped. No harm done. However, someone with more experience than me might know more as this is my first time hatching as well.
  15. Sunyoung

    Eggs due to hatch tomorrow - but I am sick with flu!

    Forgot to ask. I don't hear any chirping - is this normal? This is my first time hatching and I've been so nervous about it - that they are not chirping and also worried about humidity levels.
  16. Sunyoung

    Eggs due to hatch tomorrow - but I am sick with flu!

    This is from 3 and a half hours ago - not much change in it since. It's my only one that wasn't shipped and is at least half Jersey Giant (from my dad's flock). The one to the left of it has started to barely crack its shell. I'll post more pictures tomorrow morning.
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    Eggs due to hatch tomorrow - but I am sick with flu!

    We have one that pipped 3 hours ago and one that looks like it's starting to pip the last time I checked (a few minutes ago). No other progress as of yet, but that doesn't stop me from having my face glued to the incubator. Thank you so much!
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    Eggs due to hatch tomorrow - but I am sick with flu!

    As I stated in the title, I have eggs that I set in December that are due to hatch tomorrow - and I am sick with the flu. Besides washing my hands a lot, should there be any other precautions I should take to ensure that I don't affect the health of my chicks? This is the first time hatching out...
  19. Sunyoung

    What gender Ameraucanas are these

    Thank you all for putting my mind at ease a bit! I'm hoping since they're both pullets that maybe the one who is crowing will "grow" out of it? Could that happen?
  20. Sunyoung

    What gender Ameraucanas are these

    Accidentally posted this in the wrong forum at first... hahaha. These ameraucanas are roughly 21 weeks old and I still can't tell what genders they are. I just can't see any saddle feathers or anything, but one of the two started crowing the day after I got rid of another rooster (one of their...
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