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If you live in Lapeer County Michigan or close to it, the Lapeer MSU Extension is sponsoring a chick order/sale.  We are ordering chicks, ducks, turkeys etc from Townline Hatchery as a composite order.  You'll be able to...
Hi chicken people For those of you who live in Michigan I am holding a class on Keeping chickens for eggs on March 29, 6-8 pm at the Lapeer MSU Extension office, 1800 Imlay City Road. Lapeer.  It's a great class for beginning...
If you see a ring it means the rooster fertilized that egg.  Sorry- a little confusing the first note.
Are the 3 chickens getting picked on different from the rest? different color, different breed?  Chickens do not believe in equal rights and often pick on who is different. You may need to separate the different ones. ...
Could be she is just getting picked on.  What ever the cause she must be separated from the rest.  If she is eating, drinking and laying and seems well after a few days of separation you may be able to put her back.  But...
Before you give up do some very careful checking around your place for somewhere he could have gotten trapped in.  I once had a chicken missing and found it under a plastic tub, it must have tried to land on the edge and flipped...
The duck probably shouldn't have antibiotic  laced water.  Your chickens having survived a week may continue to improve but often burn victims will die many days after the initial event  so be prepared.  I would...
Unless you have some experience with butchering and know what normal chicken insides look like or have some vet knowledge a post mort by you probably won't tell you much.  Its better to just get her buried as soon as...
More information neeed.  By trip do you mean they were ordered from a hatchery?  How soon after you received them did they die?  I don't think anywhere would take them for analysis but do call the hatchery you ordered...
Yes- all of you who have chicken RTF questions please first check your local zoning laws then go to the free class at MSU during Ag and Natural resources week.  
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