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  1. lambchick

    Winter or Moulting?

    Earlier this winter, even late fall, our young hens almost stopped laying altogether. Then even as the days were getting shorter, their egg production started to come back up again. Is their loss in production from moulting or from the change in daylight hours? We do not have a light for them...
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    Egg cleaning

    I know I saw this topic a while ago before I was getting eggs, but now I can't find it! My hens aren 't going to the boxes yet-well starting now, and are laying them in the corners of the coop. Am I correct, do not wash the eggs until you use them? Thanks!
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    Will Roosters affect egg laying

    Well, I mean not fertile vrs. non fertile, but chasing them around? We have 2 roosters and 19 hens, actually got 8 eggs today, but wondered if the roos behavoir negated egg production. THANKS!
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    Fertilized Egg??

    Well, we bought our chicks and there were 2 rooster chicks among them. Now we are finally getting eggs. If we are getting them daily and refrigerating them, will we see any signs of them being fertilized-like blood spots-etc. I had a nightmare about fertilized eggs last night!
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    Their first egg

    Hey ours are the same age and we have our first egg today too! Congrats! Not sure which of my breeds did it-but it's smaller and we found it!
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    My pullets are crowing-is their a rooster among them?

    Well, we have light and dark brahamas, jersy giants, australorps, buff orpingtons, silver wyandotts and one barred rock-which I know is a pullet. Did a little investigating and think I have not 1 but 2 roosters! I may be back with photos!
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    My pullets are crowing-is their a rooster among them?

    Well that's the problem-I have 7 breeds and no one is quite standing out yet.I am suspicious of a light brahama, as it has more of a comb coming in. I'll do some evaluations and get some pics and post up. THANKS!
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    My pullets are crowing-is their a rooster among them?

    I'm now hearing crowing in my coop-they're 3 months old and someone's causing raucus and crowing in there. Do I have a rooster?
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    Breed Standards

    Hey everyone-Chicks are now over 2 months old and doing great. I am going to try to help my 8 year old pick out his chickens for the fair from our group. Can anyone direct me to a breed standard website-beyond what is listed here? I'm looking at sending him with the Light or Dark...
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    Debeaking??

    I don't think I"ve ever seen a debeaked chicken. Is there a photo online here? I can't imagine them without it.
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    Help Needed-Pullet acting funny-equilibrium issue

    Update**** Well, we still have no idea what happened to her, but she is slowly coming out of it. 2 days ago, she appeared fine at the feeder, then out of the blue, tucked her head to her breast and started literally running backward. Then was fine again. But, normally, she isn't showing any...
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    Help Needed-Pullet acting funny-equilibrium issue

    We have a jersey giant pullet that is 5-6 weeks old and recently moved from the brooder in the basement to the coop with heat lamps. Everyone was doing very well, until now. One Jersey Giant is tucking her head to her breast and now is walking backwards. Everyone else is fine. Could it be an...
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    Rave for Central Hatchery!

    Me too!
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    Did anyone else order from Welp?? worried newbie

    That's where our chicks came from about 1 1/2 weeks ago. They were shipped to our Bomgaars store. I was supposed to get 8, they ordered plenty more from the store. I came home with 22! We only lost one, and I think it was our fault. We didn't get a backside clean-note to newbies-read the post...
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    Where's Waldo?

    Years ago, I took a photo of a Canadian Goose sitting on her babies almost just like that. One gosling poked her head out of the wing. It was perfect and won a few photography contests. VERY ADORABLE!
  16. lambchick

    Help me ---- PLEASE!!!

    A few years ago, we had some ducklings and I thought I had a pretty safe pen. It was safe for a few weeks, but around 8 weeks of age, something was able to break into the pen and mauled all of them. It was a horrific sight. My advice, have a good solid pen at least for the nights to avoid the...
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    Feed, grit, DE help for newbie

    Wow-Thank you everyone! I really appreciate it!
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    Feed, grit, DE help for newbie

    Here's my future situation, and after I've read so many posts here, I thought I'd post this of my own-THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS FORUM! Our chicks are only a week old now, so I'm just trying to get things in my mind now. 1) We have an 8x14 coop with their nesting boxes, windows and a roost...
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    Hens not laying

    I raise cairn and silky terriers. A few years ago I attended a seminar by the nations leading neonatal and post natal expert. One of the things that he stressed for consistent fertility, litter size and heat cycles is consistant light, year around. Even with artificial lighting. I've heard...
  20. lambchick

    Pecking!!!

    I'm new to this, but recently, we had a chick that was bullying the others, and pecking their eyes. Even had a few sores on them. After the isolation we did, we put marbles in glass jars and put the lid on and set them around the coop or brooder. They were pretty facinated with them. We also...
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