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    Broken Eggs

    Thanks for the idea
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    Broken Eggs

    Hello ya`ll I need help w a problem. My chickens seem to be eating their eggs. I don`t understand why because I keep enough treats for them to pick on like veggies & cabbage heads plus their food bucket stays full. I also started collecting the eggs more often but somehow they still manage to...
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    Rooster with bad leg please advice

    Last year I had a RI Red rooster that looked like he had a dislocated leg cause he would walk on his whole entire leg instead of just his foot. I had him isolated because I thought maybe he was being picked on by the other chickens. Well I no longer have that rooster, except I now have a BB Red...
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    Blood butts on the chickens?????HELP PLEASE

    Answer the sticky? I'm sorry for sounding ignorant but were is that? I tried looking but wasn't able to find it. As far as lice & mites I'm not quite sure cause I do the deep litter method in my coop and add Dyatomaceous Earth to the mix, I hope I spelled that right. I was told that helped keep...
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    Blood butts on the chickens?????HELP PLEASE

    I noticed a couple of days ago that a couple of my hens where having a really bloody bottom. I immediately thought that either perhaps the roo was being too rough or the hens were hurting themselves by laying larger than normal sized eggs. I pulled the roo out of the coop and then noticed today...
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    Wintertime egg laying - when will it start in northern CA?

    Well I started with a small flock in the spring of last year and kept my hens laying all winter long. I had them since they were chicks. I was told that on a general basis chickens (meaning hens) need on an average of 16 hours of daylight to keep them laying and at least a temp of 50 degrees or...
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    sex link chickens

    I would like to think that they are. If you are looking for egg production Red Sex Links are one of the best. I have one in my flock and she's what I call my always faithful cause she lays all the time no matter what the temperature is.
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    Feeding the chickens crushed egg shells??????

    Well thank you everyone for all of your helpful responses. I believe I will add the egg shells in the girl's morning feed instead of trying to compost them. Bock booock <(*)
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    Selling Eggs

    I currently have 22 hens and most of them are laying so I'm getting between 10 to 17 eggs daily. Can anyone advice me how I can go about selling the eggs. I mean we love fresh eggs for breakfast at our house but that's way too many eggs lol. Does anyone in here live in Connecticut that can share...
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    Feeding the chickens crushed egg shells??????

    Hello BYC friends I live in Connecticut and a friend of mines that has chickens in FL told me that she crushed the egg shells, baked them and fed them back to her chickens. Is this ok to do? What are the nutritional values of feeding the chickens the crushed egg shells of their own eggs. I...
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    How will the flock dynamics change now that rooster is gone to "camp"?

    In my experiences with having roosters every time we had a rooster the hens were well aware that he was the top of the pecking order. Once we would take the rooster out the hens went back to establishing a pecking order amongst themselves. They will always sort things out on their own. There's...
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    Intergrating flocks with multiple roosters involved PLEASE HELP!!!!!

    Well thanks for all the suggestions yall. Right now both flocks are about the same age so it shouldn't be too hard to integrate them. My main concern was the roos. I will give them a couple of more days in their separate coop areas so they can stare at each other and then move the new flock in...
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    Intergrating flocks with multiple roosters involved PLEASE HELP!!!!!

    Greetings friends, Just recently we picked up a new flock of chickens from someone that lived in the city. They came to find out that their city ordinance did not allow chickens in their area. We live in the country and have plenty of room. Right now I have the new flock in my chicken tractor...
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    My Auracanas are not laying yet ;-(

    Greetings yall back in June I bought 7 new pullets one black star and 6 Auracanas. Actually they were still chicks when I bought them.Well as of yet I have seen my Black Star lay her first eggs. I have been getting an egg from her every other day or every two days since last week. My Auracanas...
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    Time for Lockdown....how long do I keep chicks in bator after hatching

    Greetings BYC friends after the whole ordeal of losing power and being worried about my eggs everything turned out ok. I candled eggs several times and they seemed ok. My question is once I set my eggs on lock down how long do I keep the chicks in the incubator after they hatch? Also after they...
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    When electricity black out...

    Well we lost power last week cause of a storm and I had eggs in my incubator too. I can see your concern, I used tea light candles in my incubator to maintain the temp. The temp stayed around 95 degrees the only thing is that the humidity was pretty high around 76% I candled the eggs after the...
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    incubating day 11 & had a power outage HEEELLLPPPP PLEASE

    Well finally got the power back around 4:30 this mornin. Kept the temp up around 93° w the help of tea lights and about 80% humidity. Will candle again tonight or tomorrow hopefully my chickies will be ok. Will lef u know what happens come hatching time. Thanks for all the tips ya'll
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    incubating day 11 & had a power outage HEEELLLPPPP PLEASE

    The incubator I have is home made out of styrofoam and a lightbulb. It's still air n I have sponges in water for humidity. I put a couple of tealights inside hopefully that will raise the temp a bit. Will keep yall posted. Wish I had a generator or a vattery pack so I could plug my bator in...
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    incubating day 11 & had a power outage HEEELLLPPPP PLEASE

    I'm incubating 12 eggs for my first time temp has been between 100° to 102° & humidity has been between 55% to 61%. My question is we had a power outage been without power for bout four hours now what can I do to help my eggs the temp has dropped to about 86° & the humidity has shot up to 88%...
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    Incubating first time what are proper temp & humidity???

    Thanks for your suggestions so far guys I will definitely check out the learning center section above and jot down some notes. I will be back with more questions as the time goes on.
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