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  1. BlackHenCoop

    Sorry, I didn’t see this message until now! I just keep seeing your posts and I enjoy reading them!

    Sorry, I didn’t see this message until now! I just keep seeing your posts and I enjoy reading them!
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    Dying as they hatch?

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    Dying as they hatch?

    You’re supposed to take the egg turner out on day 18!! Also once they start moving around I move them into the brooder once they are dryer, giving the others space to hatch. Also if they stop piping, you should help them out a little (unless you’re bad at it) and spray them with water to keep...
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    Topic of the Week - Raising Chicks

    Chicks are really curious so after a few days they will likely figure it out themselves, but you can like have water come out of it, or bring the chicks up to it and have them peck it.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Real, everytime I go to my tractor supply they are always completely out.
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    Topic of the Week - Raising Chicks

    They eat eggs all the time, and I collect eggs every day. The fertilized eggs they ate were doing great! I had candled them that morning and saw them moving and all their healthy veins.
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    Thoughtful breeding with a few surprises...

    could be some type of genetic mutation, or a hen carried a gene that never showed through until bred with a rooster with the same gene. I have a couple of barred in an all white flock.
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    5 week Amberlink “pullet”

    Okay, then I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that it’s a rooster, because some chicks just look like cockerels until they grow up. (I’m not saying it isn’t a rooster, just saying not to give up hope)
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    First Timer Observations and Questions

    1: sometimes it just depends on the chickens! We were hatching 12 and only 8 hatched, and all the ones we’ve done from broody chickens have all hatched. If you want higher hatch rates I would suggest a better incubator or using (trusted) broody hens. 2: it does seem kind of a bad incubator. 3...
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    5 week Amberlink “pullet”

    Yeah, and it looks like it has spur spots, I notice that in my rooster chicks.
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    5 week Amberlink “pullet”

    Do you have any more to compare it too?
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    Splay leg/knock knees at 4 weeks old

    It’s a disorder, I don’t think you could have caused it. I would say it’s probably what it was sexed as. it does kind of look like a roo, but some hens do.
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    Splay leg/knock knees at 4 weeks old

    I definitely agree.
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    R.I.P Agnes. What killed her?

    Definitely not an aerial predator, they would only leave some feathers at best. I also have had this happen and you can definitely rule out the cats weasels, raccoons and small creatures like that. I think it could have either been a fox, coyote or a dog. Dogs are surprisingly really aggressive...
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    Our rooster with brain damage

    I’m quite sad too, but he did ferociously despise my husband, leaving a large scar on his leg. So better for the husband I suppose.
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    Our rooster with brain damage

    We used to have a rooster named Hank (above), he was friendly only to me, hated everyone else. He made a great father and a great leader/protector for the hens. But he was very weak, he may not have seemed it, but he lost every time another rooster challenged him! (We got rid of the roosters...
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    Hunched 1-month old, she ok?

    Okay lol, chickens are kind of weird sometimes :D. Is she energetic? Is the hunch the only issue?
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Prevent Pasty Butt in Your Chicks?

    Oh? I did not mean to reply twice- I had a message going about to send last night and forgot about it- guess I did send it…
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Prevent Pasty Butt in Your Chicks?

    I don’t know the exact kind, because i haven’t had to buy it I a while, but it’s some kind of purple stuff. It helps with all kinds of chicken issues i don’t know the exact brand, its been a few years since we’ve had any emergency where we’ve had to use it. But it helps with everything chicken...
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    Hunched 1-month old, she ok?

    I’ve never seen something like that! Coming from someone who deals with a rooster that deals with frequent brain damage, I’d say you should definitely get a fecal test done. Do you know how long it’s exactly been happening? Also you should move her somewhere separate to calm her down to see if...
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