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    Egg bound hen

    This spring my 5 year old hen started laying some nice eggs Again. She laid about 4, 2 To 3 days apart. Then she laid one with a sand paper finish, then one that was misshapen and one side had shell missing to the membrane. She hasn’t laid an egg for over a week and we noticed droopy wings and...
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    Advice please for new Peafowl babies!!

    I just got 6 peachicks (4 days old) on the weekend. Its so hot in Texas right now, need for a heat lamp. I went to the auction for turkey chicks and come home with peachicks. I was told I have 3 greens. 2 blue shoulders and 1 white. I'm very interested in sexing. What should we look for.
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    Ducks and fowlpox

    About 6 months ago I had a case of fowlpox go through my chickens. Wet pox killed 2 birds. I vaccinated the remaining 30 birds and didn't lose anymore. This spring I hatched 5 super healthy Magpie/Ancona mix. Blue and black. They are going on 4 weeks old and I am wondering if it would be smart...
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    Red Jake going crazy

    I'll give him another week. See how he's doing next weekend. He needs to be eating and getting fat. He's constantly running away from his own foot. Running in circles and biting at the toe. IDK?
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    Red Jake going crazy

    Tip of the toe to the middle knuckle seems pretty hard, harder than the rest. Not black, but he has pretty dark feet to begin with. It is slightly swollen.
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    Red Jake going crazy

    How would I be able to tell?
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    Red Jake going crazy

    I have a Bourbon Red jake that did something to his middle toe. I don't know what happened but I took a look at it 2 weeks ago and it didn't look that bad. He was missing some scales in a band all around the toe. It looked like it could have been injured and healed fine. It's just driving him...
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    Will my Turkey Eggs Still Hatch? Problem at Lockdown

    Last night before bed 6 had pipped. this morning I have 5 babies, 1 zipping and 2 more pipped. The one that pipped at the wrong end didn't make it. I did an eggtopsy and found a nicely developed chick, but it had 2 or 3 days left of yolk. He started to early. Poor little guy. 14 more turkey eggs...
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    Will my Turkey Eggs Still Hatch? Problem at Lockdown

    They started pipping today 2 to 3 days early. 5 pipped so far. 1 is pipped at the wrong end.
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    Comment by 'ButchGood' in article 'Raising Cornish X for Meat – The TRUTH'

    I raised Cornish Cross myself. I also free range all of them with free choice finisher feed. They do waddle around and forage quite a bit espeacially when raised with your egg laying flock, but most of the time they like to lay around the food dish and eat and eat and eat and poop and eat and...
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    Will my Turkey Eggs Still Hatch? Problem at Lockdown

    I consider myself very good at incubation. Using a Farm Innovator incubator I have 100% hatchs most of the time. This is a mistake I have never made. While preparing my incubator for lockdown I set my eggs in a still air to keep them warm while I set my hot damp sponges in and set some paper...
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    Set eggs today Saturday 2/22 - anyone else?

    All 12 of my turkey eggs hatched. The oldest egg was from 02-06-2014. 16 day old egg. 28 more set 03-23-2014
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    Anyone hatching Serama eggs?

    My daughter bought a pair of seramas from the auction about a year ago. We ended up with 6. 2 cocks and 4 hens. The a racoon found its way into the henhouse and killed everyone of them. What a sad day. We both loved those birds. We fortified the coop and run. Its like Fort Knox now. We are...
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    What are your rooster's names?

    Charlamain.
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    Opinions on tbe Farm Innovators 4200 please

    I've been having very good luck with it this year. I got the feel for it now and I can keep a temp. Holding tight between 99.5 and 100. Been through 4 more hatches with it and right now I have turkeys hatching next weekend. Pretty decent bator. It would be a great one if the thermostat work.
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