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    Can I leave a slaughtered chicken in the fridge for 10 days?

    Hello all, we have 3 roosters due to be processed today. We wanted to have one for Christmas dinner. I plan to brine it the night before. Can we leave it in the fridge that long? I'm getting mixed answers online. Just seems silly to rest it for 3 days, freeze it for 3 days, then thaw it for a...
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    Pain meds?

    Hi there I know people ask about pain meds a lot and I see aspirin recommended. My question is slightly different... I have a hen who has been having issues laying for a while. I had made the decision to cull her but then she started getting better so I thought we'd see how it goes. Well it...
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    Recurrent stuck egg

    I've posted a few times about this particular hen. Each egg she has laid since Friday has gotten stuck first. While she is trying to pass these eggs she has some goopy discharge coming from her vent, clear/yellow. Honestly it looks like a raw scrambled egg. However there doesn't seem to be any...
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    Hen had an egg stuck again today

    Hi, me again. My hen who I found in the run yesterday with an egg stuck had it happen again today. However, today's egg was much more difficult for her to pass. She was REALLY straining and a hard mass just above her vent was protruding. I thought it was the egg at first but the egg ended up...
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    10 week old chick mouth breathing, stumbling

    2 sick birds in one day! Not a good day over here. I'll give as many details as I can: I have a 10 week old chick who I noticed sitting by herself with her feathers ruffled and eyes mostly closed. She seemed to walk fine as I tried to pick her up and she avoided me. I saw her pass some yellow...
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    Egg bound, prolapsed vent, and yellow diarrhea (graphic photo)

    I have a 1 year old hen who I just found with a prolapsed vent. She was straining every minute or so and passing a small amount of yellow diarrhea. I picked her up and felt her abdomen, felt a hard mass which feels like an egg. She's in the bath now. I snapped a picture just before I felt her...
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    This chick needs a name!

    This baby was a singleton - the only one to hatch out of 6. I've been spending a lot of time with her (I wing sexed her at 2 days old and think female but who knows) because I don't want her to be lonely. She loves toothbrush chin scratches and she ate a few mosquitos while she was sitting in my...
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    Singleton chick

    Just hatched one chick out of six eggs 😟 3 of the eggs definitely died, there are still two more in the Bator but I think they might be dead too. I think the incubator thermostat is off - it was a cheap one from Amazon - I put a thermometer/hygrometer in there today and it appears to be a degree...
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    Only surviving chick died today

    One of our two hens had a small clutch of 3 eggs. One was empty when we candled it, and one died right after it hatched, we're not sure why. The last chick was about 2 weeks old and unfortunately died today, it drowned in an overturned container that had collected rainwater. I'm devastated 😭...
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    Hen hasn't laid in a few days

    I have 2 laying hens, about a year old. They both started laying in December and have been laying close to an egg a day each since then. One hen has recently hatched an egg (only one out of the clutch made it, sadly) so I'm down to one layer. She hasn't laid an egg in the last 4 days. She seems...
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    First time hatching - one egg left not pipped

    We put 9 eggs in the incubator, so far everything has gone swimmingly. 2 eggs pipped on day 20, and yesterday on day 21 all have hatched but one. The only egg left does not have an external pip, but I haven't opened the incubator to candle it. Last night before I went to bed there was one...
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    Vitamin treatment for paralysis... dosage?

    I have an 8 week old chick who was starting to show some signs of leg paralysis a few days ago. I think it's a vitamin deficiency.. the bird is not showing any other signs of Marek's which was what I was most worried about. The only poultry vitamins I was able to find at my local farm store...
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    7 week old chick showing some leg issues

    I went out to let my birds out this morning and noticed one chick walking on its hocks. I usually spend a good amount of time in the mornings watching everyone to make sure they're all good, and today was the first time I noticed this. I tried to take a video but couldn't get one, I can keep...
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    What to do about randy rooster

    I have 3 chickens that are just about a year old. We got a batch of 8 chicks last summer, 6 were roos and 2 were hens. We kept one roo and processed the rest. It's been going fine until the past few weeks, one of my poor girls has lost almost all her feathers on her back. He seems to only like...
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    Power outage & reintroducing chickens to cold

    I live in Northern Alberta Canada and we are experiencing some pretty cold temps right now. It's our first winter on our homestead, and only our second winter in the north, so we are new to this. Our 3 birds have a heated mat, and when temps started approaching -30°C (and now -40) we added a...
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    Left kidneys and lungs in bird by accident - just made broth... Will I die if I eat it?

    Ok I'm being dramatic, I know I won't die. My husband and I are new to chickens and when we processed one of our birds we seem to have left a few organs behind. I didn't notice until I was straining the bones out of the soup broth. I'm grossed out and afraid to try the soup now as I've read...
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    What to do about rooster:hen ratio?

    I'll just start off saying I am quite new to keeping chickens. My family has a small flock of eight birds, they are just about 12 weeks old. We've come to the realization that we likely have 6 cockerels and 2 pullets on our hands 🤦‍♀️ we will be removing 5 of the cockerels once we know for sure...
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    ~11 week old BYM

    Hi there! I'm new here We got some 10 day old chicks from a homestead back at the end of June. Didn't think to ask what breed they were (maybe someone has an idea of what they might be?) and I've been agonizing over what sex they might be since they started growing feathers 😂 We have one...
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