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    First Wounds. Are these serious?

    The green is from bruising and should clear up in a few weeks. It's normal, and nothing to worry about. I've seen wounds worse than this close up fine, even though they look very deep. It really will be okay, just keep the chicken herself and anything else from messing with it. If you look...
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    First Wounds. Are these serious?

    Wow. That type of damage from another chicken is not normal, and is not good. Do you know who it might have been? What % protein are you feeding them, and how big (square feet of floor space) is the coop and the run? Chicken-chicken aggression can be genetic, can be due to stress from lack...
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    This is supposed to be a whiting true green hen from mcmurtay

    Have you got a few more pictures? Because that looks like a roo to me, but having such a pink comb isn't normal. I'd like to also see more of a side view. If you already have one roo crowing, this roo could be a slow developing roo - sometimes they will slow down on their development if...
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    First Wounds. Are these serious?

    Both wounds appear to be healing well. You can spray them with Vetericyn or slather them with neosporin (without pain prevention drugs, original formula only) but honestly it will probably heal up fine without you doing anything but keeping your hen away from anyone who would pick at it, and...
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    First Wounds. Are these serious?

    Do you have a rooster? Where are these exactly on the chicken? are they on her abdomen kind of on her sides, under her wings, in the middle of her body?
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    Egg color

    Yeah, occasionally, there will be a blue egger whose eggs are just barely blue. In my bird's case, she was a prairie bluebell, and I think white leghorn was in that hatchery mix somewhere. The zinc white gene from white leghorns can cause the blue color to be a lot fainter. If I had bred her...
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    Egg color

    Peel the inside membrane off the inside of the shell. Then place the inside shell right on top of a page of super white printer paper. Look at it in different lighting conditions. You will probably see it is very faintly blue. I had one blue layer you couldn't tell was blue unless I put her...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Everyone did a molt in late fall, but we've had weird crazy weather here, spring, then winter, then spring, then winter, and we're back to spring again. No idea if it will stay this time. I had one adult NH who started up laying after her molt and laid for a month or so thru December and a bit...
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    Egg turning while incubating.

    Should be fine. Just do what you can. You turn when you get up, go to bed, and get home from work, or dinner, about 2-4 hrs before you go to bed. If you get up in the night to go to the bathroom, turn the eggs. If you wake up, and it takes you 2 hrs to get out of the house for work, turn...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Baby New Hampshire chick pictures!!! So excited they got here safely!!! I'm trying something new - after almost 4 years on this forum, I've created a gallery. I have New Hampshires and Chocolate Eggers coming from Freedom Ranger hatchery and Hillside hatchery (partner with Freedom Ranger...
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    FunClucks Chickening Extravaganza

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    New Hampshire chick, Henry Knoll's line, Freedom Ranger Hatchery, Feb 9, 2025
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    New Hampshire chicks, Henry Knoll's line, Freedom Ranger Hatchery, Feb 9, 2025. I ordered 15, they sent me 17, and all made it safely. They are VERY fast and skittery.
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    Stacked roosting bars, double decker with deep bedding

    I've found these to work fine, without injury. A determined hen can even walk along the strip, when secured to the flat side of a 2"x4", and it doesn't hurt her. But they make the area uncomfortable for roosting.
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    Comment by 'FunClucks' in article '10 Cheap or Free Things Your Chickens Love More Than Store-Bought Supplies'

    Every time I go to scoop the poop out of the chicken litter box (poop board with Zeolite), they all come to check it out. I think they think I'm scratching for food, and they MUST come see if there's something they can steal. So much drama over a simple coop cleaning activity. Every one of my...
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