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    Pullet or Cockrell: barnyard mixes

    Thank you all! Thats a relief!
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    Pullet or Cockrell: barnyard mixes

    We hatched 4 barnyard chicks hatch out a few weeks after Easter. They are Australorp father with unknown mother (We have red sex links, easter eggers, black sex links, blue cochin, australorp, and buff orpington). Our cochin went broody and made a great mother. We know 2 are roosters. The other...
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

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    Ended Guess How Many Eggs Hatched!—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    1,314
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    I'm in the US (SC), Over 18 and did not follow Binsea or sign up for the news letter.
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    Roll away nesting box

    I'm dealing with a similar egg-eating habit and looking into roll away boxes. I actually have a model similar to yours and sadly it has not fixed it. The egg-eaters figured out where the eggs go, reach under there and pull them out to eat them. I'm going to look into the much more expensive roll...
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    Ended Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect—16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

    Entry #1 This is our first hatch from our own chickens! Its a barnyard mix. They are in an outside area we made to seperate them and their mama but also inside the chicken run.
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    Roos? Easter Egger and Astralorp

    Title says it all. The white one is an Easter Egger. The black one is an Astralorp. I'm pretty sure these are roosters, though.
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    I did. They were absolutely not helpful at all. The woman on the phone was very dismissive and acted like it was no big deal. I made sure to inform her that the chick came to me sick from the post office. She just said its important to keep my birds from other infected birds...
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    Wednesday Evening: Tuesday morning I found an Ameracauna in the "healthy" brooder with symptoms. I moved her to the sick brooder. She declined rapidly. I thought she would pass by this morning but she is still alive, still fighting. She seems to be doing better but these small chicks go down so...
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    I just want to document what I've done so far. 1 additional Americana is now showing symptoms. She was in the "healthy" brooder. She's now been moved to the "sick" brooder. The blue cochin has improved. I still hear the crackling but its less. The baby red sex-link is worse. The first...
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    It's a basic plastic storage "tough box", the 40 gallon one. There is a 20-chick sized brooder plate with a food and water dish. The bedding is large-flake pine shavings from Tractor Supply. Thank you for your recommendations! So far all the baby chicks are living but I plan to purchase some...
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    The sick buff orpington passed yesterday evening. There are 3 still showing symptoms this morning. The other 5 are still healthy and show no symptoms yet. My treatment other than quarantine will be as follows: Sugar-water with save-a-chick electrolytes. (2 tablespoons of sugar per cup of...
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    Hatchery. Air flow should be good its in a room where the fan runs and there is a radiant heat brooder for them to get under. There was a water spill yesterday right after set up but I immediately changed all the pine shavings. The Houdan came out of the box sick... I realize that now. He had a...
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    2 day old chicks with Respiratory Infections??

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) This is a mixed flock. 1 Houdan is actively dying (Just edited to add the Houdan has died) The sick ones are: 1 Amerecauna, 1 blue cochin, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Red sex-link. All arrived...
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