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thanks for your help. this is definetly a learn by experience kind of thing. There arent any wounds from where I poked them. it was a small little pin type hole. After leaving them alone for the afternoon i realized that it was only the crop full of water. I have had meat chix before but never...

I am hoping someone has some wisdom to pass along to me. I have cornish cross in a tractor that gets moved once or twice a day to fresh grass. They are only a week or two from being processed. Today i noticed that most of them have huge bulging crops. I looked closer and noticed what looks like...

here is a video of my husband and i teaching ourselves to caponize.

I am wondering where I can find a rib spreader like the one in the photos. It looks much better than the one I have. Paige, Salem Oregon

that is a great idea. never thought of putting an egg IN the pen to find out. Thanks so much. Gonna do that tonight.

They have the same amount of light as the other 3 pens that are still laying well. Thanks everyone for your thoughts. Wondering how to determine which one if any are eating the eggs.

The pens are wire. It is the small squares. I think 1/4 inch. The pens are something like 3 ft. by 1 1/2 ft. There is a nesting box in each pen. There are three levels or rows of pens. 4 pens per row. The bottom pen is one long pen for all my meat quail. The pen that has stopped laying is the...

Hoping someone has come accross this. I have 4 individual quail pens all side by side in a row. Each pen has 1 male and 4 female. I have been getting almost an egg from each hen every day. Went out to gather eggs about 6 days ago, and in one of my pens, there were no eggs. And there havent been...

Here is a link to a video of my chicken. It puts its head down and backs itself into a corner, puts it butt up in the air falls over and has a hard time getting up, but just about a half hour ago it was drinking a bit of water. No diarrhea, no bloody poo. Separated it from the other chicks. Any...

thanks for the advice. The chick died about 10 minutes after my last post. She flapped her wings violently, flopped around, stretched her legs, pooped a bunch of bloody poop and flapped and stretched her muscles a bunch more then died. Went to the store and bought Corid to put in the water of...

I have a Salmon Faverolle chick about 5 weeks old. Pretty sure it is a pullet. She is lathargic, eyes closed, breathing heavily and feathers are puffed out a bit. She is just laying there breathing hard with her eyes closed. Havent seen her eat or drink...shows no interest in even opening her...

tonight I discovered one of our male quail has been scalped and has an eye missing. I do have several males altoghether in a pen with about 20 females. I am suspecting one of two things. 1. other males pulled his feathers out and pecked him until it is just scalp. Skull with a thin layer of...

tonight I discovered one of our male quail has been scalped and has an eye missing. I do have several males altoghether in a pen with about 20 females. I am suspecting one of two things. 1. other males pulled his feathers out and pecked him until it is just scalp. Skull with a thin layer of...

Thanks for those great ideas. I will give them a try.

Hi have a chick, she is 6 weeks old. She was in a brooder pen with 6 others, all Delawares. They began picking at one of her toes, drew blood and so I seperated her. Put her in a wire cage right next to them. I put blu-kote on it which has always worked in the past with my other chicks. But i...

Thanks so much for your advice. MUCH appreciated.

I was going to set the first 4 eggs either today or tomorrow. The next batch will probably be ready for me to pick up next week. My 2nd incubator is super old. I bought it used and which was a mistake. Turns out it won't get about about 96 degrees.

Hi, I am getting 4 Black Copper Marans eggs today and don't want to wait very long to put them in the incubator. Last time I had 2 and I waited 7 days to put them in the incubator because I was waiting to get more fertile eggs from another breeder. They didnt hatch. I heard someone somewhere...

Oooooh anyone with wisdom...please share it with me. My first incubator is a Little Giant. I have two thermometers in it, along with 17 eggs. One thermometer on the egg turning racks, holds steady at 99.5. I put the second thermometer, which is the exact same ( it was in the box the egg turner...

My favorite girl,Nacho our pet has been a bit wheezy for about 5-6 days, then started coughing. Yesterday I quarantined her and another chicken, from the rest of the flock. Started giving her Duramycin yestereday. Brought them inside for the night, and today when I took them out to their...