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    d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

    Maybe a d'Anver expert here could help me with this...I bought four Bearded d'Anvers (Quail Antwerp Belgians) from MPC sexed to be female, and my favorite of the two remaining chicks appears to be growing a comb while the other one is not which leads me to believe it's a rooster. I posted a...
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    Is this D'anvers chick a rooster? Part of sexed order from MPC (pics)

    Quote: Quote: Quote: So they sent me the wrong breed? If they aren't bearded d'anvers, what are they? The other chicks in the order (Easter Eggers, Buff Brahma Bantams and Golden Campines) all look different and like their own breed and these two are smaller than the rest (especially the...
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    Is this D'anvers chick a rooster? Part of sexed order from MPC (pics)

    I got a shipment of chicks back in July from My Pet Chicken; I paid extra to make sure that they were all sexed to be female since I have had problems with roosters in the past (namely them constantly attacking me and the other hens) and didn't want to go through that again. I got four Quail...
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    Best way to clean/sanitize an old brooder for new chicks?

    Quote: Are you sure that measurement is right? Most of the places I've found that talk about using bleach water to clean out brooders or poultry equipment say either 1 cup per gallon (8 oz. per gallon) or 10% bleach (about 13 oz. per gallon). 1 teaspoon per quart would mean 4 teaspoons in a...
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    How much light do they need once their heat lamp is turned off?

    I added a small lamp to the brooder room which I turn on during the day to give them a bit more light in there. I have a new question, though; should I turn their red heat lamp on at night? It gets pretty cold at night here, and though they're inside, there is an open window in the room with a...
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    How much light do they need once their heat lamp is turned off?

    I have a group of 4.5 week old chicks in a brooder in a spare room in my house; I unplugged the heat lamp yesterday since they're pretty well feathered out and should begin to adapt for the move outdoors in another few weeks but I guess I didn't realize how dark it is in that room without the...
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    Chick's toe infected/constricted, may fall off, *Pics & Video*, help?

    Didn't have the chance to post this until now, but these are pics of the chick's foot on August 8th, two days after the initial pictures in this thread were taken and the following morning after the video was shot: I was apprehensive about pulling off the blackish outer ring of scales with...
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    Chick's toe infected/constricted, may fall off, *Pics & Video*, help?

    I called around to several vets, even some out of state, but every place seems to be closed for the weekend. The one place I did reach said they thought it was infected and that the chick needed antibiotic or the toe would fall off or the infection would spread and the entire foot/leg might...
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    Chick's toe infected/constricted, may fall off, *Pics & Video*, help?

    Bump for help
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    Chick's toe infected/constricted, may fall off, *Pics & Video*, help?

    Quote: Are you referring to this pic? http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8649/before2b.jpg That was from a week ago and the redness on the inner webbing of the toe seems to only be present in that one picture; I checked for it today and there's no visible issue in that area now.
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    Chick's toe infected/constricted, may fall off, *Pics & Video*, help?

    I tried soaking the chick's foot in a bowl of warm water today and massaging the toe, moving from the top down to the nail to promote blood flow as well as soften up the skin/scales to see if they can be taken off or not. After this I rubbed coconut oil on the toe as advised by this site to...
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    Crazy and erratic chick behavior in brooder -- normal at this point?

    Quote: Not sure about the ambient temp; it's been between 70 and 80 here recently, dipping into the 40s and 50s at night and 60s in the late evening but there will still be days where it gets up into the high 80s. As for inside, there's usually air conditioning but the room they're in is the...
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    Chick's toe infected/constricted, may fall off, *Pics & Video*, help?

    I just noticed about an hour ago that one of my easter egger chicks (2 and a half weeks old) has something wrong with its foot; one of its toes is red and looks like it's had the outer scales picked off or something. I took some pictures: I have pictures of this same chick from July...
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    Crazy and erratic chick behavior in brooder -- normal at this point?

    I have a batch of 2 and 1/2 week old chicks (fourteen of them) in a makeshift brooder in my spare bedroom and lately over the past few days they've been going more and more berserk in there, although I'm not sure if it's just because of my presence in the room at the times when i'm observing...
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    Here's my latest brooder, set up in my spare bedroom. Ignore the mess in the rest of the room; it's used as a storage space most of the time. I got four sheets of plywood, each 4 feet long and 2 feet wide (or 2 feet "high" in this case) and four 2x4s to put in each of the four connecting...
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