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    Looking for Fertile Eggs for my Broody Hen

    Hello Everyone - I live in Upstate NY - south of Albany. I am looking for fertile eggs to put under my broody hen. I have a small flock of gals (24) and one roo. Evidently Lou is unable to keep up with his girls. :) When I candled the eggs my broody hen is sitting on (day 10) only one...
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    Weird Egg

    Anyone have any idea what is up with this egg? My husband cracked it into the fry pan this morning and was surprised to find it
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    Looking for Fertile Eggs in Upstate NY

    Good Evening All - I am looking for fertile eggs for hatching that I can pick up that are near the Albany, NY area. My preferenaces are Copper Maran, Easter Egger, Olive Egger, Ameraucana, Araucana, Cream Legbar. Thanks!
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    ivermectin

    Can anyone tell Me where I can Purchase this for my chickens? Tractor Supply only has it for cattle.
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    11th Annual Easter Hatch a Long 2020

    Hi Everyone- I set 7 eggs . Mine are an eclectic mix of olive eggers, salmon favorelles , Easter eggers, and sexlinks
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    Frozen “bum” feathers

    Good morning everyone We are having some frigid weather here in the northeast. This morning I noticed a couple of my hens had some frozen poo on their bum. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? Should I leave it, try to soak it off, cut it???
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    Lice and Treatment

    Hi All - Despite keeping my coop very clean - somehow my chickens got lice. I noticed them on my big white rooster and his mate. I assume that means everyone has them. I just can't understand it. I rake the ran, remove old feathers, turn the bedding and scrape the roosts EVERY DAY...
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    Roosters Anyone?

    U Upstate NY. About 40 miles south of Albany
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    Roosters Anyone?

    I have 4 lovely roosters I would like to re-home. Silver laced Orpington (3/2017) Salmon Favorelle (5/2019) Sussex Coronation show rooster (3/2018) Unknown little fella (5/2019)
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    Salmon Faverolles- Week 3

    All- Last week I posted a couple of pics of my baby chicks wondering if they were boys or girls. Here’s a new couple of new pics. I feel pretty sure the one is a pullet. But what about the other? Thoughts? Good guesses?
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    Salmon Faverolles-Gender?

    Hi everyone- I hatched these little fellas Memorial Weekend. Can you tell the gender? I am thinking girls.
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    What Date is Lockdown.

    Hi everyone I set my eggs late night on 5/5/19. Is today lockdown or is tomorrow?
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    Chicken Behavior

    I have a hen that up until yesterday was happy enough running around. First, I noticed yesterday evening she was just sitting on the driveway. I thought this was weird because the driveway is blacktop and all her friends were enjoying pecking around in the fresh grass or scratching in the...
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    Question on Eggs

    Good Morning All I have such a dilemma. On 5/5/19 I put 10 eggs under my broody hen. She’s been a real champ at setting in them. This is my first broody hen experience. On 5/12/19 - my elderly mother in law decided to collect eggs. She never collects eggs She collected ALL OF THEM! When my...
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    Broody Hen and Dave

    Hi all Dave the Rooster is King of the roost with 17 hens in his harem. He “does his thing” quite regularly with whomever he catches up with. I found this week that I now have a broody hen who is sitting on her eggs as well as several other eggs she gathered. In your opinion do you think at...
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    Sour Crop

    Good Afternoon Everyone and Happy Spring I have a 1 year old Maran hen who I noticed on Sunday had a crop that was droopy and hanging down really low. From what I read online, this might be a pendulous/sour crop. So I took her out of the flock,massaged the crop so she emptied it (sort of) and...
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    Emergency for Dave the Rooster (Frosbite)

    Where in upstate NY are you? I am south of Albany.
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    Emergency for Dave the Rooster (Frosbite)

    I did a heat lamp last year and lost 6 chickies to Teflon poisoning. Everything I read said no heat lamp/no external heat because they will freeze if it "goes out". Of course now I have extreme frostbite:(.
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    Emergency for Dave the Rooster (Frosbite)

    We are at -14 with windchill. -6 without. Yesterday it was much worse. My run is covered - but the snow is blowing in. I am going to put up some walls out the outside to at least block the drifts.
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    Emergency for Dave the Rooster (Frosbite)

    Good Morning All - In Upstate NY we are having a frigid windy below zero (wind chill) weather. Dave the Rooster (Coronation Sussex) has a very high comb and very long waddle and he's a really large fella. Late last week he started getting a little frostbite. This morning - it was super bad...
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