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Ok so here’s a question for the experts. I have brown egg layers (mostly standard red rock cross and RIR, brown Sussex, your standard egg layers. I also have polish and this a couple of polish/Silkie/d’ucle-cochin cross. So either brown or white layers. At first I thought this green egg was...

So there seems to be a great debate about this. Doing the math the price of whole milk to weaning seems to be about the same as a bag of Agri-melc 2000. Although I think I would have left over replacer raising a 2lb Nigerian dwarf kid to weaning. But certainly preparing the milk replacer is much...

So I’ve been lambing/kidding for 13 years and I’ve not ever seen this. This little goat is due to kid for her first time in the next 2-7 days (her actual due date is Jan 19th). When she stands up on a block to eat this comes out. When she stands normal she’s fine. Kids/kid are still moving about...

Not sure if I’m in the right thread. So my question is dealing with coccidiosis. If you get layer chicks from the hatchery and get the vaccine, can you put chicks you hatched yourself with them. Will they benefit from the vaccine? Is there a time period where you shouldn’t mix them. Going...

I have a brinsea 7 egg mini advanced. It’s now 3 years old. I usually do about 3-4 runs with it a year. But I was wondering how hard you could work it without damaging it or severely cutting its life span. A new one is so expensive. Any thoughts?

My hen’s 2 chicks are about ready to hatch and I have 4 more in the incubator hatching in about 7 days. We’re experiencing a bit of a cold snap for the next 2 weeks, reaching -7C at night. Barely above zero during the day. Will she keep her chicks warm enough in a broody box? Or should I taken...

Hi all. I purchased a Nigerian Dwarf doeling last spring (born March 30/19) and she's coming up on a year old in about 5 weeks. She's still only about 20 lbs. She gets all the food she wants (lots of summer pasture, all the hay she wants and a 1/8'ish cup of grain every day. I'm not planning...

So my 8 month old Nigerian dwarf got pneumonia and although thought she was going to die, my first case since having goats for 4 years and sheep for 12. She has pulled through and has recovered. As recommended by the vet I had her under a heat lamp. So now 9 days later I have a little fleece...

My 6 month old cat is eating chicken food and she hasn’t diarrhea today. She’s eaten it for months not nowhere with no effect, but I think she’s eating too much. I also have a small goat the size of a chicken sneaking in for food too. I’m thinking about putting on some bitter apple spray. Will...

So I have a standard silver laced polish rooster. Any issues with breeding and hatching eggs from a silkie/sizzle hen? Can the chick be too big in the shell? Just starting to play with breeding. I’m used to sheep where you don’t want the ram too much bigger than the ewe. Sorry if this is a...

So we noticed these solid white blobs on both our 2 month old polish and some form of it on our other bearded birds. Looks like they are firmly attached to the feathers. Any idea what it is? Coming up with nothing on google. It seems to be affecting only the young birds in one flock. Various...

So this hen has had this problem since the spring. She lost all he feathers and hasn’t grown them back. She’s eating, drinking and laying. Any thoughts? If she doesn’t grow then back before winter she’s going to get frostbite there I would think.

So not sure what to do here. I have large 3 week old Ayam Cemani chicks and a 5 day old polish chick. The polish chick had mates mates but it’s the only one that didn’t sell. Odd chick out. I will keep her now, but she’s wasn’t raised with the Cemani’s. She’s actually pretty bonded with us. So...

So I went out this morning to move a first time and her two chicks to a safe pen after her second chick hatched yesterday. The first one hatched the day before. I found that she left behind one chick whom I’m trying to revive now under a brooder with my incubator chicks. Three questions. If I...

OK, so my second round of incubation (I’m totally new to this) I finally have one beautiful chick on day 23. Last night one pipped on the wrong end and I lost her. Second one successful hatch this afternoon...yay! So, here’s the question. I see no action on the other eggs. I have a hen with 3...

Im just wondering what the best course of action is. I have broody hens sitting on eggs and some in the incubator, all hatching around the same time Should I put all of the chicks in a pen together, or let the hen keep the chicks. It’s much easier with food and chick safety to put them in the...

So if you have eggs laid on different dates (April 20-22), what do you set your incubator at for days. Right now they are at day 19. Is that ok for the day 21 egg? Just wondering about lock down. My hen was sitting on too many so I decided to reduce her amount and use my incubator.

I have a goat that seems to be having some skin issues. I thought it may have been from rubbing on the feeder, by this morning she has one on the top of her shoulder. I scrubbed with Betadine and applied polysporan anti itch. I checked for lice and did not see anything. No new animals have been...

i have an egg that just started to break through the shell and then mom stepped in it and it crushed. I see movement in side and some blood. Do I just leave it? Or help it out? Yikes! Any advice is appreciated.

hi everyone, I got a mixed package of Rhode Island reds, red Sussex and black sexlink pullets, looks like they slipped a roo in, and they said it was a black star (black sexlink) hen, but I think they are wrong, it’s definitely a rooster, do you think it’s a Rhode Island Red? Aren’t black stars...