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    BAD Rooster!

    Find a tasty recipe. In the mean time we had to use one of those fat wiffle ball bats and wack him on the side each time he comes at us. They eventually get the idea and its really more of a shock than painful. My rooster is fine with me but not my son so he keeps a bat by the fence. That way...
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    New chick under a broody pecked by another hen.

    Unfortunately I had to cull the chick last night. I had blocked the nest box but another hen somehow got in from the back. The chick was badly pecked. The chick was still standing and peeping but it had no neck skin left and the flesh was in shreds and dried out. I felt so bad. If any more...
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    New chick under a broody pecked by another hen.

    I have a dark Brahma bantam that just hatched a new chick yesterday. Another hen pecked the chick on the neck pretty bad. The chick seems like it will be ok if I can figure out where to put her and the hen. The hen is still on 2 other eggs. Should I just forget about the eggs and move them to...
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    Membrane too tough for hatching chick

    I have run into this same problem with my last hatch and now my batch that is hatching today. The first chick zipped all the way around the shell but not through the membrane. The membrane was broken in only a few places. The shell breaks and pieces fall off but they can't get through the...
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    Boys or Girls?

    My Buff Orps are the same age. The roos definately have a comb more pink than that. She looks like my pullets. I think they are both girls.
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    How many of you have your chicks in your house?

    I have 22 three week old chicks in the basement. Also 6 Cornish X's and 4 duckilings that are 1 week old.. The incubator has 33 eggs expectied to hatch about April 21. And alot of eggs going into another incubator today. (I don't have room for all the eggs) I think I need another 'bator! This...
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    Candled tonite...not sure. Need help

    I was having difficulty candling my brown eggs. Using a toliet paper/ paper towel cardboard tube in a completely dark room really helped. I had a mag light at the bottom end and held the egg against the top end of the tube. I could see chicks growning even in my dark marans eggs. 46 out of 48...
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    Ideas for using sand in the brooder (w/ pics)

    Great idea! I have chicks hatching this weekend. I think I'll try the sand.
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    campine

    We had bought a Silver Campine hen last summer but didn't know what she was until after something had killed her. She was a little bit flighty for me. I prefer the more mellow breeds; orpington, wyandotte, barred rock, faverolles etc. The night she died we found the eggs she had hidden and...
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long, come join in!!

    Set 48 mixed breed eggs in my incubator on Feb 20th and sent 21 to my neighbors cause I didn't have room. After candling earlier this week, only 2 were not growing. Not sure about the ones at the neighbors.I had 82 eggs but one had cracked and the others were bantams and I don't want any more...
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    What are your rooster's names?

    Barred Rock: Lipton GLW: Campbell Buff Orpington: Colonel Sanders Salmon Faverolle: Mac Cuckoo Marans: Al Capone
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    Hens are Roosters??

    We got 2 roosters from a friend who could not keep them. They were headed to the freezer with our extra roosters. When my son went to the coop to get them, one had laid an egg!!! She had a huge comb and spurs on both legs. Her spurs were not sharp however. Her egg was timed perfectly...an hour...
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