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    Preparing Your Flock & Coop for WINTER

    We live in Iowa and have some seriously cold, wet, windy nights. This is our fourth winter with chickens and have learned really to just let them adjust. I get the heaters out for the waters and make sure to close up the shed at night for them but that's it. I'd do more but we have nice big cold...
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    Any help would be awesome to help ID breed

    Received some chicks from a girl who works at hoovers hatchery and hen decided she didn't want them. Not sure on breed tho. They should all be around 2 months old as they were 10days old on June 10th. Any ideas would be awesome I could narrow it down by matching what hoovers has available...
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    Chick breed?

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    Gender of embden geese

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    Gender of embden geese

    I tried my hand at vent sexing them and well.. Idk how I did. I'm thinking two are male and three female.. Any guesses?
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    Absolute sick! Mass murder

    Something got into the coop and ripped the heads off and took the heads (or ate them) and left the body! I had 12 silver laced 12 ISA Browns and 3 leghorn. I'm absolutely sick, what does this and what do I need to do to kill it.
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    Feeling frusterated with my hatchability!

    So do we assume that is they are growing to full term and never pipping that it's a humidity issue?
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    Feeling frusterated with my hatchability!

    So I started last year with a still air Styrofoam incubator, first hatch was 30 duck eggs and 100% hatched! This year we started off with chicks and had 90% ish hatch rate and was very happy but had still air and was turning by hand. We plan to hatch and sell all spring so we decided to upgrade...
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    Hatchery mixed up chicks!

    So we ordered 9 silver laced, 9 ISA Browns, 1 leg horn, 3 Americans, and 10 red Rangers broilers.. Well they mixed everybody up and the broilers were suppose to go to someone else... I actually drove back to the hatchery to get them sorted and she was of absolute no help... The silver laced and...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    5 eggs 10 hen.. Slackers for sure. Haha actually 3 of those hens are no longer laying (just old and happy)
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    Collecting duck eggs for incubation

    I was thinking the same, but I instead tried some fertile chicken eggs, that were even similar color and she pushed it out of the nest!!
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    Collecting duck eggs for incubation

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    Collecting duck eggs for incubation

    Last year we collected almost 40 eggs from my snowy mallard, but after many days worth of hunting for her nest since she continued to move it. Any tricks on collecting eggs without making her leave and keeping her laying for the longest possible amount. From what I understand if you take a an...
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    Still incubation

    I have a lot of issues with my still air staying regulated also. Very frustrating!.... But in all honestly, my very first hatch last year the first week had a spike to 115 for possibly 8 hours. Figured for sure my duckies were goners, and especially figured it was be done after a drop down to 80...
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    Snow mallard help

    I purchased a pair of snow mallard around July last year so they are over 6 months of age now. I was told they would hatch their own babies. Right now they are sleeping in my chicken coop with my 6 laying hens, in the corner on the ground. And free ranged during the day. I noticed there was an...
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    first eggs question

    Well I've left just an egg in their and almost every night I check they have the egg all nested in and fluffed up the hay in the box, so I think at least one is nesting some just not laying any.
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    first eggs question

    Still no eggs :( I'm thinking about keeping them in the coop a couple days incase they did find a new nest outside? Or is that just mean?
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    first eggs question

    Started collecting my first eggs and they are way bigger then I thought! And when I cracked one open.... And when I cracked another Haha that's right 2 eggs and 6 yolks! But for the last 3 weeks the eggs are getting smaller, less shell, and some shell less and last 2 weeks no eggs at...
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    gender of my barred rocks

    What age would you suggest butchering the cockerels
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    gender of my barred rocks

    And thanks! :) I had 2 hens I brought to fair back in 4-h like 10 years ago but this is my first of my own and I'm pretty much addicted to them already!
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