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  1. RubelliteRose

    Blind rooster eye shrinking

    It is somewhat normal for a blind eye to shrink especially if the blindness was caused by injury or infection. You cannot stop it and eventually it will stop shrinking on its own. Sometimes the process causes pain and sometimes it is painless. Keep watching him, but if he is acting fine, he is...
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    1st egg from our hens!

    :celebrate Congratulations! Beautiful first egg☺️
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    Rats/Mice problem

    We had mice in our run for a while. To get rid of them, we had to figure out how to keep the chickens from spilling food all over the ground when eating. Our solution was to place their feeders in rubber feed pans to catch the spillage and remove everything from the run every night. We also...
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    Do you give your birds rainwater?

    We have a well, so we eventually use the rainwater😉, but we do not intentionally collect it for our flock.
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    Have been experimenting making mini baked goods batches with quail eggs, brownies are giving me issues.

    This is the recipe that I use for brownies😄. One difference I did notice is that my recipe says the toothpick should be slightly sticky vs clean. 🤔 Do you use a hand mixer or wooden spoon to mix the batter? I have the best results using a spoon. I do know that I need to turn the oven down 25...
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    Considering a second rooster

    No, it isn't dumb to want to add another rooster. I have 3 who get along very well. BUT, I had to go through 8 boys to get the 3 that I have. The other 5 were either human aggressive, hen aggressive, or in the case of Ezra, my youngest, his brother tried to kill him while Ezra was being...
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    Bent toes? Should I be concerned?

    Bent toes can also be caused by incubation issues. I have one year old hen with a single bent toe that I am sure was caused by the room with my incubator being way too hot for a couple of hours. I also have a hen from Hoover's, who has a bent toe on each foot. Pidgey will be 6 this year and...
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    Incubator dilemma

    Here are some instructions you can use to test your hygrometer to see if it is correct: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/calibrating-the-hygrometer-experiment-pictures-video.1224319/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic
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    Is my olive egger a rooster or just a early maturing hen...?

    All of my EE/OE boys have had pink combs by 4 weeks, so there is still hope that Olive is a girl 🙂 This is my group of chicks, one boy and 4 girls, from last year at a few days over 4 weeks old.
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    Urgent advice ASAP

    You will need to upload to a site like youtube and then post the link your video here.
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    Comb and wattle receded

    If she isn't being picked on and if you don't feel like you need to closely monitor her, I would leave her with the others. Separation would be stressful for both her and your other chickens. I thought about egg binding, but I would think that her comb would be red even if this was the first...
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    Comb and wattle receded

    Also check around carefully for lash egg material. I know most of the pictures are of egg sized lash eggs, but my experience with them has been that they can be tiny - end of my pinky finger size. Hopefully you will find another cause of her symptoms!! However, if caught early, a...
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    Mite infeststion

    What I do when treating my flock with elector psp is make up 2 gallons worth in a Sterilite container -one that is chicken sized. I dip each bird in the mix, making sure to splash it around the vent and under the wings. I then pour the mix through a small strainer into my sprayer so I can spray...
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    How to train where to lay eggs

    That is so frustrating! Can you make a slightly larger temporary run? I had a couple of pullets who decided to start laying in yard. It took less than a week of confinement to retrain them to lay the coop. That was a couple of years ago and we haven't had any eggs outside of the coop since then.
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    Undecided- Anyone ever feel the same?

    One of my thoughts was that you should try a waterproof tarp to see if that helps. If you don't already have one, Project Farm on youtube has a video testing various tarp brands
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    What did you name your chicks ?

    This makes me sad, my EEs are some of my friendliest chickens. My favorite, Torchic, came from Hoovers. She loved to snuggle as a baby and still demands lap time almost daily. If I don't sit down fast enough, she rubs her beak on me until I do 😂
  17. RubelliteRose

    Official BYC Poll: What Capacity Incubator Fits You Best?

    We only hatch once a year at most for ourselves so we have a 12 egg Kebonnixs incubator. Our broody is a wonderful mother but a terrible incubator, so she has been banned from sitting on real eggs. This year if she goes broody, Pippin will get fake eggs and chicks from the incubator after they...
  18. RubelliteRose

    Netting Recommendation

    We also have Pinnon Hatch Farm netting and love it! We had a luffa vine growing in our run the first year that grew over top our netting. We had well over a hundred pounds of luffa hanging from the vines and no damage to the netting! While the chickens loved the cover, just to be safe, we no...
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    Getting more chickens, should I mix my flock?

    We started with a small coop and run, but chicken math hit. We moved a shed over to the chicken area and expanded the run so both coops attach to one large run. Our original intention was to have all the chickens sleep in the large coop and use the small coop for new chicks/isolation etc, but...
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    Too many eggs! Suggestions?

    Here are a few of our favorite recipes that use a lot of eggs. Korean egg bread - a batch of 12 muffins uses 14 eggs. It is perfect for using any small to medium eggs. https://dailycookingquest.com/gyeran-bbang-korean-egg-bread.html Egg bread - uses 10 eggs. The dough is extremally sticky so...
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