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@Pyxis I'm trying to get my state agriculture rep out asap since he was going to be coming out soon to test my other flock for my npip, hoping to get him out today or tomorrow if possible, just waiting to hear back. i'll look into cornell as well, pretty sure I now have a place to do the...

@Pyxis sadly things have gotten worse, really, really thought the chicks looked better last night but had 4 more deaths today. i've just been sick over this and have been contacting different vets trying to find somewhere to take the bodies and the remaining living chicks...

@3riverschick Thank you, I have not used the drench and am excited about adding a new product to my chick inventory, it sounds like it will be very useful for future hatchings as well!!

@3riverschick Thank you! I will look for that, or order it if none of our stores carry it for sure. i'll try the molasses now since i have it and put them on regular water for the night, i've been using a dropper to make sure the tiny, lethargic chicks get fluids since i haven't seen her...

@3riverschick perhaps i should include both regular water and the vitamin water, or do you think i should take the vitamin water out for a while and give them fresh water, maybe do an every other day thing? i wasn't giving them the vitamin water everyday until a few days ago due to the...

@Pyxis i'm not sure if i mentioned this, i did on the FB post but am posting back and forth. one thing the breeder and i were both thinking could very well be the cause of this is the fact that several had hatched last Sunday when i got them in an incubator in the car and were instantly...

@Pyxis oh i would never use the teflon, shatter proof bulbs, though good point since so many newbies have been using them. it is the 250watt heatbulbs you get at Tractor Supply with the chick stuff. 4 died today, before today i had 7 die over a few day period, the 4th one actually died...

@3riverschick i have a hygrometer in both, everyone kept telling me to up the temp which is why i put the 250watt in there, the temp is now steady at 94, but i am now moving the little chicks back to the bigger brooder with the bigger, healthier chicks. i'm stressed so may be mixed up but i...

i just added the 250 watt bulb to the tank 2 nights ago due to FB group saying to add more heat. i did order a large heatplate off amazon the other day that is supposed to be here tomorrow and will be using that instead, i despise heat lamps in general but really hate the 250 watt and don't...

The humidity is at 10% on the hot side and 30% on the cooler side right next to the water dish

Bedding is pine shavings, i have been giving them sav-a-chick in their water as well as the tub of vitamins and electolytes with lacto bacillus, only gave them that in their water recently yes a few of them have had pasty butt issues, pretty badly, i just finished rinsing their butts a bit ago...

sorry, i am also chatting on the FB group about this and was asked the same, the temp on the colder side is at 75, the heat lamp is angled to just hit about half of the brooder and the side it's hitting is at 94

I posted about this in the silkie/showgirl FB group and have gotten a few comments but really would like to find out the cause of this and if this is actually normal. Please constructive comments only, I am writing out as much detail below as possible to try and avoid unnecessary or rude...

Howdy! So there was a thread on here somewhere where a few people posted pix of their EE's that were a mix of Barred Rock hens with Ameraucana Roosters. I have been searching through all the threads and can't find the one post I'm looking for, in it a couple people posted really good pix of the...

Unfortunately these little ones have to stay seperated since several of my big girls pick on them. I always slowly introduce my chickens and wouldn't put them together till the SG's were the same size but I am still undecided on putting them together, I may put a divider up and see, they're...

Hi, I have been lurking through this thread for a while, soooo much cuteness!! I have been wanting one of these fluffers and may be getting a few eventually. How do they do in coops with other breeds? Most of my babies free range but I would like to make an enclosed area for them and put them...

I'm wanting to start breeding some Ameraucana's, BBS for now, and these are my only almost full grown ones. I have chicks coming from Paul Smith next month and they are getting their own separate coop and pasture. My other flock will be a mixed flock and I'm trying to decide if I should keep...

We came home to find our 12 week old boy in one of our large tubs of water, looks like a sheep knocked their door open somehow and he got out. he could have been in there for up to 3 hrs as that's the last time I checked on him. We toweled him off and put him in our now empty brooder in our...

Oh my goodness I LOVE that name!!

he wants to eat my camera This is Priscilla, he was abandoned as a baby and we took him in, thought he was a hen for a long time and decided to keep the name Priscilla even though he's a roo, it fits him perfectly! He's a Leghorn and may not be considered all that pretty but he has the...