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    Does anyone know what this is?

    Part of a follicle. Sometimes they come out when an egg is laid. It's a reproductive malfunction, but usually a one-off. If you see these on the regular, then be concerned. Common with new layers or hens that just started back up laying.
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    Dog eating my chicks

    Expecting your dog to listen when you are not around to enforce consequences is unrealistic at this point. You probably need a good two years of only being around them when you are present, without issues. He needs to forget any idea he ever had of them being edible. Now that he's eaten them...
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    Dog eating my chicks

    First, keep them physically separate, with 2 barriers between them. Next, figure out how to train your dog to leave them alone. Depending on your dog's breed an prey drive, this could be doable, or super difficult. Not letting your dog practice behaviors you don't want him to do is part of...
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    Molting or something bad?

    Do you have any roosters? I don't think the back end is mating damage, but want to rule it out for sure. I think both areas look like feather picking / over-grooming. Probably happens on the roost at night where you can't see it, if you haven't seen them doing it. Other hens are eating this...
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    The Egg Anomalies Thread

    What a cute chicken!!! When I am wanting to know for sure what color a bird lays as soon as possible, I lock them in the isolation cage for a day or two. As soon as they lay an egg, I know for sure who did it. My isolation cage is in the covered run, so they are with their friends, but...
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    What is the "happy" minimum run space for four to six hens?

    I have a 150 sq ft cattle panel hoop coop covered run. No "coop", they live in the run full time (it works where I live). 10 eggers in that space is a bit cramped. 4 is spacious. I'd say 6 would be about right. Guidelines are that you can have up to 10 birds in that space, but I've found...
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    Cinnamon King???

    Baby chick down seems reddish. Wings coming in with all red feathers. I'm gonna say female. Cinnamon queen cockerels have white/yellow down and feather out white to start, with red over the wing bows eventually. Your chick has entirely red wings, not just wing bows.
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    🐥 Orange Dot Mystery 🐥 (white leghorns)

    Man I wish I'd known this sooner! I've been given the run around at TSC a few times with them not wanting to tell me the hatchery. Next time I won't take no for an answer!
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Processed weight, or carcass weight for me includes the entire carcass minus wing tips, minus lowest part of legs (the scaled portion of legs with the feet), and minus the head of the bird. Also doesn't include skin or internal organs. Weight of bones is included in my carcass weight, the...
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    Is this Fatty Liver Disease? (With autopsy/processed chicken pictures)

    I think the cut in the liver just fractured that way, after I pulled it out of the body cavity. It was fine prior to that - if you look it seems to have separated at a "seam" of some type. I don't think I got it with the knife, but am not 100% on that. It was smooth, firm, and slightly...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Thanks!
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    In other news, the NH and chocolate egger babies are out in the covered run now, or in the isolation cage next to the big hens. The NH are super cute and very awkward when they run. I'll work on getting some pictures.
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    One of my 2 year old NH hens passed away this morning from a heart attack. Hatch date March 11, 2024. I happened to be out at the coop filling the feeders before the sun was up, and saw her pass. I assume it was a heart attack. Not sure of underlying cause. She was having circulation issues...
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    Is this Fatty Liver Disease? (With autopsy/processed chicken pictures)

    TLDR: Is this fatty liver disease? Pictures below/attached. Enlarged heart and kidneys, lots of fat along the intestines and 3x the expected amount of fat in her fat pad on her abdomen. Had unshelled eggs in her ovaries, but I haven't seen her lay an egg since at least December. I feed 20%...
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    Large number broiler -brooder help needed

    Pictures? That can help us picture what you're describing. The only non-electrical ideas I know of are using feather dusters so they can huddle under it, but that might be hard for 70 chicks. 15-20 chick clusters can keep each other warm, at least for shipping. As long as you have areas in...
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