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    How To Save A Hen From An Overly-Frisky Roosters

    We may just need to expedite getting rid of the younger one. He behaves fairly well but that's just because he's afraid of his dad....he pushes his luck when dad's not around. I'm fairly certain that he would be a good rooster if he were the only one but having both of them around is no good...
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    How To Save A Hen From An Overly-Frisky Roosters

    There is a local auction here that is held every month that will take the cockerels so we are only keeping them long enough to be old enough to sell (2 roosters is more than enough lol). We may try the bachelor coop. I hate cooping them up but I guess it will only be for a little while so I'm...
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    How To Save A Hen From An Overly-Frisky Roosters

    I thought about doing that but we only have the coop (which I can divide into 2 sections) but I worry that if I coop the boys up away from the girls then they will fight each other. The younger one is the older one's son and dad has him pretty well in his place but I don't want to tempt fate.
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    How To Save A Hen From An Overly-Frisky Roosters

    Ok....so I can't think of any more polite of a way of saying it. We have 6 hens and 2 roosters (one older, established, and good for the girls and one that's a year old and waiting to go to auction). Recently 5 of our hens got broody and we got tired of trying to break them. We free-range our...
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    Confusion About Candling Eggs

    I live in a very rural area. The closest pet shop that would carry items for reptiles is over an hour away...I used to keep a bearded dragon and it was always a field-trip to get anything for him...hence why I order everything over the internet now days. I have called every local pet shop and...
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    Confusion About Candling Eggs

    I know that they are more then 10 days along because I have had them for 11 days and they were already developing when I candled them when I first brought them inside. I wonder if maybe their growth was stunted because of the cold....? I have not marked the air cells....never would have thought...
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    Confusion About Candling Eggs

    Okay...I have a pic but I will admit it is not the best because my phone was having a hard time getting a decent shot of it in the dark but I think it will be a good enough pic to get the point across. In this pic the air cell is on the right side of the egg...I know that it looks like there...
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    Confusion About Candling Eggs

    I am talking about the other side of the egg. The aircell is normal (as far as i can tell). They have a good amount of fluid on the opposite side of tthe egg. Momma hen dissapeared about 10 days before we found her under the house...which was on the 18th. We free range our hens and we didnt know...
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    Confusion About Candling Eggs

    Hi, This is my first time trying to hatch eggs in an incubator. Momma hen abandoned her eggs and we are trying to save as many of the little guys as possible. I have candled the eggs every couple of days for the last week or so and they are definately developing and there is movement inside but...
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    So night before last I went home and candled the eggs again before putting them into the incubator and I saw definite movement in 10 of the eggs. 2 I believe are dead but I will give them a couple more days because I am not very confident in my abilities with this and I'd hate to mistakenly...
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    I'm so excited. We found a loaner incubator. I am excited to see how the little chicks do. I've always wanted to try raising some from eggs...maybe this will be my first chance.
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    I am so happy for the hopeful news. My fiance didn't want me to fuss with them at all. He said they were dead when I brought them inside but I decided to try until I could get any more information. Is there a way to tell if they are still alive? Like can you see a heartbeat in their veins or...
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    What worried me about that article was the risk of deformities at higher temperatures under the ideal temp. I think it said the range for that was in the 80-95 deg range. Honestly, I think that I would rather they not hatch then hatch chicks that will have a life-long deformity. We free-range...
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    BTW...my estimation on how old the eggs are is also based on the fact that momma hen had been missing for about a week and a half. My fiance counts the chickens every night when he closes up the coop so that should be an accurate estimate.
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    I am no expert at candling but it seems to me like the eggs are between like 3 days and 10 days. These are the first eggs that I've attempted to candle though. Am I to take it from the article that ChickenCanoe posted that young eggs like this are better to be refrigerated until we can find an...
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    Help Please! Momma Hen Abandoned Her Eggs

    Hi All, About a week and a half ago, one of our hens went missing. Well yesterday our pipes froze under the house because its been so cold and, when we went to fix the leak, we found momma hen under the house sitting on 17 eggs. We had to relocate her so that we could correctly fix the broken...
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    help please! momma abandoned eggs

    Momma broody disappeared about a week and a half ago. We found her when searching for a water leak because our lines busted because its been so cold (15 deg at night). We had to box up up under the house to prevent further damage so we tried to relocate her tonight to the chicken coop so she...
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    Newbie with a silly question

    My mamma hen laid eggs in sub-zero weather and we just let her do the work to keep the chicks warm (we do not have electricity in our coop so we didn't have much of a choice). The chicks would venture out with mamma and scratch all around the yard in freezing weather and cuddle up under her when...
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    Newbie with a silly question

    I am new to raising chickens, myself, so I definitely don't claim to be an expert but I think that it would be hard to keep them warm without a brooder. Blooie posted a very interesting heating pad "Mamma hen" idea under "Raising Baby Chicks">"Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder". Since the chicks...
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    Hi Y'all

    Thanks for the warm welcome! The first baby that died was the last to hatch...almost a day after #8. The egg had rolled out of the nest and hatched there. When I found him he was just about frozen to death and barely breathing. I warmed the little guy up and re-introduced him to mom but he...
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