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Am I doing any good with all this medicine?

People are telling me wet pox. Ami treating it the best way?

I noticed your questions is a month old. I am wondering how your baby is doing? I have a roo with the pox now. I just noticed 2 of my 2 week old chicks may have it also. One has a wart on the outside of his mout and the other, just below the eye. I put oiodine on and then vetamyicin(?) . I'll...

I don't know. I'm just not willing to chance it. None of my chickens are for show, they are mostly pets for the grandbabies. I love to hatch eggs and give the chicks away, but I'm not going to chance it.

All three of my frizzles are male and all of my hens are regular. I do have 3 baby's that hatched and one is obviously frizzle. The other two may have the genes and it's just not apparent. It's looking like my obvious one may be a pullet, we'll see. If so, I won't allow any of the eggs to be...

Thanks for posting this photo. I ordered frizzle chicks from our local feed store and 2 out of 3 look like this. I didn't know what was wrong with "the twins"! They are about a year old now and I will make sure they have plenty of access to the heat this winter!

My first set of ducks started laying at 5 months. The first set I hatched started laying today, at 3 months2weeks! (they are my first hatch, so I'm positive about their age) That really sounds strange to me? I just don't know? Anyone else have them to start laying this early?

Both eggs are still doing good and trying to internal pip. I'm not gonna worry about the float test on these ones because I can see them trying. The air cells are getting much bigger now. Just waiting! :)

I'm still learning about the moisture deal, but I have the same theory on the air cell. I marked them this morning, so I'll see if they get any bigger. Because I'm not sure of the due date it's going to be a guessing game. Thanks for your comment :)

I have the same type question: I have 2 duck eggs that were left from a nest. They have been in the bator almost a week and were showing good signs of veins and movement. I believe they are very close now because the eggs are so full and I can't see much of anything. I water candled and they...

I have 2 female anacona ducks. My Hildi has been sitting on a nest for almost 2 months that had a total of 21 eggs between the 2 of them. Because of whatever reasons, they don't get close to hatching before something happens and my Daisi just keeps adding and running off. Hildi sits. We finally...

My duckling has finally started moving around. When I put it in the bator yesterday afternoon, it still had quite a bit of yolk to absorb. Yolk is gone now and tummy is healing. Still stumbling and fumbling. I gave it a drink of water because I'm ready for bed and it's been in there 31 hours...

It didn't make it :( I just put all my babies outside yesterday. My young duck has been sitting on what was 21 eggs. 4 days ago I candled and one was internal pipped and one trying to. I was finally able to get her off the nest to check and nothing. The internal pip died and never cracked the...

Well, It's gonna have to be over with me for a while :( My heart is drained. This was my 2nd hatch (1st was ducks). My double yolker I'm guessing died about a week ago. Did an eggtopsy today and one chick. We went to lockdown on Monday . I candled everyone and the double's shell was so dark I...