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One of our young Wyandotte Roos has a large swelling on his side, kind of under his wing. It is soft, squishy and almost feels like there is air in there. He is acting totally normal and happily running around outside. Any one have a clue what this could be? I have never seen anything like it.

I ended up getting a higher protein layer mash (18%) so we are going to try that

Is this something you would do again? I would love to get some silkies.

wow there is a ton of information here!

I have always heard you shouldn't.

Thanks! I'm gong to the feedstore tomorrow to see what other options there are for layer mash.

We always eat beet leaves as a salad green, yummy!

We candled them, didn't look like any made it :( Going to stablize it and try again in a couple days.

We have an issue with feather picking and eating with our flock, We thought the hens were losing feathers do to getting trod on to much by the Roos so we went down to two Roos, and that helped a bit but a lot of our hens are baldy and it isn't getting better. I saw two different hens picking and...

Thanks, we got a new thermometer and got the temp perfect. Then yesterday had a middle of the night power outage, I'm thinking my babies are doomed, going to candle on Monday to see if any are developing. Not feeling hopeful since the power was off for over eight hours :(

They are fairly local to me, I used to work at a feed store and I had several people advise against them, we also had people coming in for replacement chicks since all the ones they had purchased from Destiny farms had died.

I have been really happy with the birds we ordered from Townline, nice quality birds and out of 75 chicks we brooded we only lost one. I personally wouldn't buy from Destiny farm.

Hello everyone, I have a question on incubator temp, We just put some eggs in my father in law's incubator that he brought down for us, he had it set up with a couple eggs from his hens. We put 20 eggs on it last night, mostly easter eggers and wyandottes. My FIL and I often disagree about...