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  1. Audry

    Chick mystery

    I'll take one when I get home tonight
  2. Audry

    Chick mystery

    Yeah, the thing is, the chick doesn't have the coloring of either of those, it's exactly the color/ pattern of a RIR.... it's just those feathers. Really weird. It is from a hatchery - My Pet Chicken. I guess I'll just see what it grows up to be.
  3. Audry

    Chick mystery

    I just received an order of baby chicks that included, or was supposed to include, a Rhode Island Red. We did indeed get a reddish-brown chick that LOOKS like a RIR, but this chick has definite feathers growing on both feet! Can RIRs ever have feathered feet? Is there another breed that looks...
  4. Audry

    What in the world is this?

    Xenia's Chickens : Looks like "mummified" retained eggs. I would check the hen for a prolapsed oviduct. It must have taken a lot of straining to pass that thing! Would that be fairly obvious externally? There's not really anything for scale in the photo, but this is smaller than a regular egg.
  5. Audry

    What in the world is this?

    She's still doing the weird twitchy thing and making a soft moaning sound each time she does it, but she's settled in and nobody's bothering her so I think I'll just keep an eye on her. They tend to spaz out a little when they go in the cage and I don't want to upset her if she's comfortable in...
  6. Audry

    What in the world is this?

    Well, based on the suggestions that it's a bunch of undeveloped eggs or part of her reproductive system I was able to find a few other threads dealing with the same thing. Apparently it's unlikely to have done any lasting damage, so I'll stop worrying. Thanks for the help!
  7. Audry

    What in the world is this?

    Quote: I have all different breeds, but this one is a Rhode Island Red. She hasn't been laying (at least outside her body!) for months, so I guess if she continues not to we won't be any worse off. Before her first molt, she was our best layer. Quote: one of them (Cordelia) is acting...
  8. Audry

    What in the world is this?

    I am glad she didn't die, but I'm concerned because she is acting really weird. If anyone has any ideas what to do for her, I would be grateful. Otherwise I guess I'll just watch and see.
  9. Audry

    What in the world is this?

    I found a really bizarre lump of... something... fleshy (?) in the coop this morning. I put it in a plastic container and when my husband got home from work he cut it in half. It actually just kind of broke in half very easily with the sharp edge of a small piece of wood, almost like a lump of...
  10. Audry

    two-day old chick in bad shape, please help

    Thank you. Unfortunately the chick just died :-(
  11. Audry

    two-day old chick in bad shape, please help

    We got a shipment of baby chicks at 6:30 this morning, most of them for my mom, who came and picked them up a couple hours later. They all seemed to be doing fine when they were here, but now one of them has what my mom is calling a crusty bump on its belly, and is very listless. Just laying...
  12. Audry

    Siamese Eggs?

    Quote: we haven't broken it open, but the "cord" seems to be filled with albumen - and both eggs have yolks
  13. Audry

    Siamese Eggs?

    Quote: I'd actually call both of them shell-less, but the first one has a little bit of a coating started so it has more of a shape. the second one had a little membrane "tail" too, but my husband picked it off
  14. Audry

    Siamese Eggs?

    Quote: No, it doesn't, it means they're just starting out. They have both oyster shell and grit. My older chickens laid soft eggs when they started laying as well, and they eventually normalized. The young ones are laying mostly hard eggs, and the soft ones always happen in the middle of the...
  15. Audry

    Siamese Eggs?

    Our 4 newest chickens just started laying a couple weeks ago, so we've been getting the usual tiny eggs, huge eggs, double-yolkers, no-yolkers, soft eggs.... but what my husband brought in from the coop this morning is by far the strangest thing we've seen yet.
  16. Audry

    Do hens typically lay their eggs in the a.m.??

    Mine lay them all times of the day
  17. Audry

    double yokes

    We got a lot of double yolkers for a while when ours first started laying, but they eventually stopped. They're just about 13 months old now, and we haven't had a double in months. I'll be interested to see if our second batch (currently 14 weeks old) start out laying doubles the same way.
  18. Audry

    Is my speckled sussex a rooster?

    ::big sigh:: thanks everyone. Now we have to figure out what to do with him... if he makes a racket our neighbors will complain, and we could be forced to get rid of all our chickens. We can't eat him after thinking of him as a pet for 14 weeks... If anyone lives near Charlotte, NC and wants...
  19. Audry

    Is my speckled sussex a rooster?

    I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but I want to be wrong... so posting anyway. 14 weeks old. Was totally oblivious till (s)he crowed yesterday morning and I actually looked for signs of her not being a her. This is our only speckled sussex, so we had no basis for comparison. Thanks.
  20. Audry

    Egg quality issues and free-ranging

    That's what I would have thought, the less commercial feed the better. I guess I'll just wait and see if it persists. The yolks are still dark yellow and the eggs are still far better than store bought, I just thought the weirdness of the whites was, well, weird.
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