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    What’s wrong with this egg?

    There can be little bits of tissue that come off the reproductive tract and the body thinks it’s a yolk so it adds the albumen (white) and a shell. Often called fairy or fart eggs. Not terribly common but usually nothing to worry about, happens more often in really old and new layers.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    25 yesterday but 6 where from a hidden nest. Currently 15 today including this whopper of a duck egg @120g. Already confirmed double yolk with candling. Compared to a normal EE egg.
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    ISA Brown - Orange Feet

    Chickens can have all colors of feet/legs depending on breed. Orange/yellow is quite common as is black, slate, white, even blue or greenish.
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    Benadryl to Euthanize Chicken?

    Old thread, looks like someone found it and revived it. While I still say the fastest way is the best way, I'd like to critique my answer as I've gotten lots more experience now from processing dozens of chickens since 2024. Originally I said the broom stick method but after a few botched...
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    Did some family collections on eggs that I’ve been getting. Will add more once I have the “complete set” for the mothers and their daughters. Moms are on the left. Top left is mom’s egg, second photo is her. Best hen for my colored egg project IMO. I’ll be hatching her darker daughter’s eggs...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    The meat bird girls are on strike! I guess they didn’t like being moved to their new pen and are rebelling. I get one or two eggs from them a day. Hopefully they all come into lay in the next couple weeks. Funny enough, I was thinking I’d need another roost bar but last night I saw all 7 girls...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    Fertility is not looking great, checked again last night and between the confirmed blanks and 2-3 more quitter I think I’ll be lucky to get 5. It almost makes me want to scrap the whole batch but of course I can’t do that with the few good eggs still cooking. I did crack open the 15 I removed...
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    Infected toe??

    New photos? Green is of course not good and makes me think gangrene which is the tissue dying off and rotting away. Is he acting okay otherwise? Are you making sure the wrap isn’t too tight and cutting of circulation? Chickens do have an interesting method of auto-amputation but I only ever...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    23 today, white one is a duck egg. Eggs are getting dirty with all the muck outside.
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    Egg hunt?

    I’ve had them sneak into the garage and lay on a shelf, under their coop, under a picnic table and a hunting shack, in a trailer (which has straw so I was asking for that one), under some junk stored under the lean-to connected to the garage, under the deck… probably more places that I just...
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    Will a chicken hatch and brood ducklings?

    My duck is finally laying pretty regularly and in a reliable place where they aren’t going to get frozen or found by the dog first. I’ll be collecting and dating eggs just in case someone wants to go broody. Eggs older than a week will be eaten. Depending on which hen goes broody I think I’ll be...
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    Infected toe??

    Is it warm to the touch, warmer than his other foot? Any leakage of any sort? Hard or squishy? Is the toe below the wound still warm? Honestly look like it’s just scar tissue to me. If everything checks out (in the above) I think it would be okay to leave it alone now, maybe put some blu kote...
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    @mermaid_of_the_farm if you want that hatch along for speckled eggs. Hard to see but there appears to be life in all the barred rock eggs. Can’t see through the green one very well. Embryo is but a shadow in the middle.
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Moved the 7 hens over but decided to wait a week or two before adding Junior. Pen is about 12 X 9 and the shack is around 4 X 8ish. They seem pretty comfortable and were scratching around in the bedding. They were fine until about sunset and then they were pacing the fence. Herded them into the...
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    Day 6ish and I’ve gone through and candled them all. Fertile eggs appear to be about half dark as the embryos grow. I removed 15 blanks and left a few other questionable ones. Both the cracked and sealed ones are still in there so we’ll see what happens. Shocking fertility rate though if about...
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    Grit size

    My birds find plenty of grit in the yard/garden/driveway while free ranging but like many others I've had to supplement during winter. I just toss a couple handfuls out every few days and they pick what they want. As I have turkeys, ducks and chickens it's nice to have a varied size, which this...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    19 today, most I’ve had in a good while. Would have been 20 but someone kicked an egg out of the box in the early morning and ate it while I was moving birds to another pen. There’s only 3 eggs I’m not sure who laid but I did find out my crested girl lays these dark green speckled eggs (top left...
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    Moved the 7 hens for Chunky Jr. to the breeding pen. Pen is 12X9 feet with a hunting shack ( ~3x8) for the coop. Enclosed it all with chicken wire so there are no escapees. I think I’ll add Jr in a couple weeks to give the girls time to settle in. Butchered the orange cockerel. Weighed 5lbs...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    So far 10 today with another on the nest. Check out these green ones! I believe bottom left is the mom of the top two. All but bottom left should be fathered by my blue copper maran. He’s really lending his genes to create some nice daughters.
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    New incubator just came in the mail and I’m giving it a test run. Looks good so far but just like the other it says it can hold 36 chicken eggs but it’s definitely only a 30 egg capacity. If I do vertical incubation I can probably fit 42-50 but I don’t need that many right? I’ve already set...
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