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  1. MountainWoman73

    Is this a bobcat?

    Body shape looks right for a bobcat. I had the same happen to ducks who stopped sleeping inside. The bobcat took one a night. Things that have helped me with a bobcat are a dog who trees predators, keeping them inside the coop for a couple weeks until the predator changes their habits, and...
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    My First Hatch!

    Very cool. That's an epic brooder setup. :)
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    New Hampshire vs Rhode Island Red

    I agree. New Hampshire reds are my favorite. Prettier color, and nicer. I have one NH hen now named Pretty Ivy.
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    My First Hatch!

    I use fingernail clippers on my zip ties. And never leave them on longer than 1 week, so they don't ever get tight. And I switch legs every week. Just re-banded my two identified chicks today actually. :)
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    My First Hatch!

    Good luck with your hatch! I had to physically leave the house to stop staring at the incubator when mine were pipping.
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    Wheaten x Black Copper Marans pictures?

    Replying to my own question here. Still interested in seeing others' pictures if you have them. I banded the one chick that hatched from an egg I thought was wheaten x BCM. Yellow band was indistinguishable from the BCMs at hatch. Now she is 16 days old, and feathering out with an interesting...
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    Malposition chick in egg

    When chicks pip outside the air cell like that, they need a longer interval between pip and zip. Think of it this way: instead of an internal pip, they had to make an external pip. Internal pipping usually happens 12-24 hours prior to external pipping. So they need that extra 12-24 hours to rest...
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    "Pullets" are almost half roosters: a rant

    This was several years ago, but I ordered 4 cream legbar sexed pullets from a hatchery, and got 4 cream legbar cockerels. They're auto-sexing. Cockerels look completely different. So somebody pulled from the wrong bin or something! They gave me my money back.
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    Marans in the incubator. :)

    Here's my chickies. We still have 10, and they're 10-12 days old. I'm guessing 4 boys and 4 girls out of the marans, and who knows about the olive eggers. I'm bad at spotting EE boys. This first one's name is macaroni. These two are the EE mixes. And the eggshell of the last one to...
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    Incubation Question...

    Sounds like it might need an assist. What you did so far was right. If you see blood it needs a little bit more time. Be prepared for any outcome. I've had this go both ways. I had one last week that pipped outside the air cell and took more than 36 hours to hatch. At 24 hours I chipped away...
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    Official BYC Poll: Do You Candle Your Eggs? If So, How Often?

    I love seeing them develop. I candle on day 5 or 6, and then again day 10-12 ish, and then again on day 17-18. If I suspect one is dead I take note of how it looks and check that one again in two days. And of course any time we have friends over with kids we have to candle a few so they get to...
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    Marans in the incubator. :)

    Last one just hatched! Final stats: 12 hatched, out of 18 eggs originally set and 14 eggs that went into lockdown.
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    Clean Eggs

    The forum is backyard chickens, not factory farm chickens. Read the room Pieter. 🤣
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    Twins?

    The day 14 candling looks good. Great movement and veins. I had several that were U-shaped and looked like 2 separate things moving at 8 days. No twins. :)
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    Thoughts on failed hatches?

    Sounds like you had a great hatch! #1, the yellow one, looks like it put its foot through its yolk sac, and didn't absorb the yolk sac, so it was probably dead on day 18-19. #2 tried to hatch out the side instead of through the air cell. Sometimes those are savable, but they often take one...
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    Shipped eggs and chick health

    My shipped eggs had a low hatch rate, but the chicks I got were healthy and strong.
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    Wheaten x Black Copper Marans pictures?

    Still waiting for the right person to see this Chick pics for interest:
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    Soft Shell egg- is this normal?!

    Probably one of your early layers trying to work things out. Soft shelled eggs are a common glitch. And they often lay them all over the yard because they don't know they're laying an egg. It should work itself out. However, if it becomes a more common/ persistent issue it can indicate...
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    New chicken mama with questions!

    Agree, speckled sussex. :)
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    Marans in the incubator. :)

    10 out, including 3 assists.I think the one that didn't pip probably isn't going to. BUT the fun's not quite over yet, because I have two more eggs that I set late, and they're not due until Saturday. :)
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