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    10 week old chick "sleepy" since hatched

    My chicks were all hatched from clean eggs in incubators in my house then moved to brooders in our garage with no contact with other birds or the outdoors, so I think coccidosis would be unlikely. In Canada I dont think we have access to corid as the govt has regulated veterinary mediactions...
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    10 week old chick "sleepy" since hatched

    We kept them under heat longer than out other chicks but they have been off heat for about 2 weeks now and we have been having unseasonably warm weather. All the EEs went out of brooder at 6 weeks and had zero issues. All were hatched and raised together with same conditions and all EEs did...
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    10 week old chick "sleepy" since hatched

    Yes it's had poul-vit added to water and ACV intermittently it is 10 weeks old now so off heating source
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    10 week old chick "sleepy" since hatched

    I got 2 dozen hatching eggs from a breeder. 18 were chocolate laced orpingtons and the other 6 were Easter Eggers. We had just had a cold snap a week before and her fertility had dropped with her previous batch before mine. Out of the 18 orps, 8 were non starters and only 3 ended up hatching...
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    What colour is this?

    Any idea what in the heck colour they are? I'm struggling to figure it out. Blue barred? I have been hatching out either lavender or isabel chicks as well as black/black barred. I have a few roosters and haven't split my pen yet, so all of the lavender could just be isabel. These are new...
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    What colour is this?

    Isabel hen upper left isabel roo lower middle and lavender(?) cuckoo lower right.
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    What colour is this?

    I bought eggs listed as lavender cuckoo and isabel orpingtons last year. I'm wondering if that's what the hens are. They just seem so dark in comparison to the roo and the breeder, who supposedly had stock from reputable breeders seemed less than reputable herself (as I found out later)
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    Fresh egg with an embyo?

    What is a blood spit? I feed them high pro feed. Never had an issue. In our community we have only hi-pro or co-op brand feed.
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    Fresh egg with an embyo?

    Yes I will definitely take pictures and look at it further if it does happen again. Hopefully I won't have to though!
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    Fresh egg with an embyo?

    I really don't think it was just a meat spot as this was quite big, probably the diameter the size of a quarter and 1cm thick and had more definition and texture to it than just blood. The egg itself was full of blood when I cracked it, but the blob was something else entirely.
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    Fresh egg with an embyo?

    I wish I had take a picture, but I was so grossed out I threw it away immediately. I collect my eggs daily and cracked one open this morning only to find it very bloody and a red blob that may have been a 4-6 day old embryo inside. There is no way it sat outside for more than a day and would...
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    Cayuga or cross?

    I just had some ducklings hatch and 2 out of the 6 have these little yellow patches under their beak, but no where else. We do have a cayuga and a welsh harlequin drake, however the cayuga never allows the WH to breed the ladies from what we have seen and before we got the cayugas we never had...
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    Best Integration Methods?

    I added a 5 month old rooster with the same method I mentioned above your post. No issues at all.
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    Best Integration Methods?

    I have successfully added 3 groups or 2-3 birds this way. We put the new birds in an extra large dog crate and house them in it for 2 days in one of the corners of the pen. This way everyone can squawk, peck, etc... but no one gets hurt. On the third day we open it up early while everyone is...
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    Pig breed guesses?

    Anyone have a guess as to what kind of pig/ cross this may be?
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