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    Day 18 egg under hen, very small chick in egg.

    Your thinking is worth a lot to me! Thank you!!
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    Day 18 egg under hen, very small chick in egg.

    Guarantees with chickens?? Ha! Although I will say I’m definitely more likely to “guarantee” something with my roosters opposed to my hens. For example I guarantee you’re not going to find three of my roosters squeezed into the same nesting box, even though there’s MULTIPLE other vacant ones...
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    Day 18 egg under hen, very small chick in egg.

    I’ve got a hen like that. A red sex link of all things! She’d raise a coyote if it’d fit under her. She just wants to mother anything and everything. Well wish me luck!! I have no idea what’s going to happen. Just when I think I’ve got this chicken thing down, something happens and I’m confused...
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    Day 18 egg under hen, very small chick in egg.

    Well at least I know I’m not crazy. Goodness, it looks like it’s 5-6 days behind. And I haven’t had a hen stay on the nest after hatch longer than 4 days. I can definitely put it in the incubator to finish if mama doesn’t, but will I be able to reintroduce it to its family?? What a pickle! If...
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    Day 18 egg under hen, very small chick in egg.

    I’ve hatched plenty of chicks with an incubator and mama hen. Since I’ve had broodies, I don’t use the incubator. Anyway, Im a pro candler. I know what baby is supposed to look like in the egg, especially at day 18. Mama has a clutch of 3, 2 of the eggs are perfectly on schedule. They fill...
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    WE GOT OUR FIRST EGG FROM THE PULLETS!!!!

    Congratulations! And she has some fierce eyes! Beautiful.
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    Roosters crow has a wheeze

    That was good!
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    Roosters crow has a wheeze

    I’ve got 2 roosters that do that. One started doing that right after he learned to crow, and has been doing it for 2 years now. The other boy just started doing it after a month or so of crowing. The vet gave them an A+ during check. So I’m going to say some roosters just do that. But keep a...
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    Roosters crow has a wheeze

    Does this wheeze sound almost like an inhale type sound? Like after he ran out of breath crowing, he had to inhale quickly and made a wheezy type sound?
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    A very bad day

    Well pin a rose on your nose! @VeeKay is looking for compassion not this “look how much better I am than you are” attitude.
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    A very bad day

    It’s a horrible situation. Most of us understand the dilemma, you worry the chickens will get too cold, especially if you have older birds, and then we worry about using heat lamps. We’ve all been there. It’s not your fault! It was a horrible accident. If you didn’t use the heat lamps and some...
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    What’s the best way to integrate 2 flocks that have 3 roosters…

    You’re definitely right about hens having their own ideas! In my head these hens will be with this rooster and vice verse, but nooo. And sometimes I’ll go into the coop and hens that’s never changed their roosting spot, has moved to the other side of the coop to be with the other rooster, a...
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    What’s the best way to integrate 2 flocks that have 3 roosters…

    So I have one main flock with 23 hens and 2 roosters. No problems there. If my primary rooster gets an ego issue, there’s a “hey! That’s my shoulder man” thing but nothing to write home about. My primary has a son, Charlie, who is such a great boy (they all are honestly), So Charlie has his...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    lol that was an illusion of a Christmas bonus. What a coincidence I had the same illusion!
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I’ve definitely seen that too. I think it depends on the rooster. My first rooster, a bantam Cochin was crazy with hormones. He was awful to his pullets. So I let my older hens school him. Hes awesome now, and has been the best roo. My other roosters aren’t aggressive with their ladies. They...
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