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    Exposed Crop or Tumor? (Showgirl Chick). **pics**

    Our little showgirl has a mysterious bump at the base of its throat that recedes if you poke it and it's soft. Any ideas?
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    New to rabbits. What advice do you have for a new owner? **Pics included**

    Without getting too detailed I suggest relief from heat, shelter from rain and wind, water, plenty of fiber, adequate protein and grooming, exercise and training to fit your individual situation. Coccidia is hard to spot early so watch out for bloated belly where you can also feel the rabbit's...
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    Thanksgiving Turkey Processing

    We raised six Narragansett turkeys this year and will be butchering them a few days before Thanksgiving. This is my first time butchering turkeys and I have a friend to dispatch them. I don't know that I can do it this year just because of sentimental reasons. Once they're dead however I am not...
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    Wanted: Modern Game Bantam Eggs

    I am looking for Modern Game Bantam eggs. I have a brown red pair and cannot find anyone in my area--or a hatchery--that has them. I would like to breed toward show quality but I am also looking for just healthy, pure stock. At this time of year I know it's easier to ship eggs than chicks due to...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    Wow look at those happy little babies! I have a few pics of the silkies and a few updates! We have eleven silkies so far, all vaulted and bearded. We have sixteen EE chicks and had one Australorp hatch as well! I've added some pics of the little silkies, the EE with a few of the bigger silkie...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    Two more EE this morning bringing the total to 14. We also have two silkies hatched out under our broodies. There is new life everywhere on our farm right now. Two rabbits are nesting and will be giving birth in two days or so while another ten will be due from a week to two weeks from now...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    I'll check on the laws I'm thinking they might be strict and I don't know how chick eggs would do on a trip like that but I'll research. We candle our eggs about a week before hatch at the latest, 2 weeks in at the earliest and we throw out undeveloped eggs. That helps keep explosions to a...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    So far we have five more Easter Eggers and our silkies are being shy, none out yet! That's not surprising since I have two people waiting for silkies and none for EE. That's usually how it goes :P Now I just have to give the eggs a chance to hatch and clean everything else out before next week...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    Aren't they great! EE chicks are like confetti, so many colors! The quail are in with the EE for tonight and they keep cuddling around one or two and it's so cute. Hopefully we will have some silkies in the next day or so. I think it's worth the tiny drop in temp and humidity to check once a day...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    We have babies! We ended up with nine quail chicks so far and--surprise!--six Easter Egger chicks! They hatched in the turner, go figure! Our birds hatch on the "stop turning day" all the time; I don't know why we don't suspect it :P Picture time! Don't mind the blurry pics, quail chicks...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    I am pretty proud of my silkies this year as my white roo got some very nice compliments from the judge. I am growing up a pullet that shows a ton of show promise. Mine almost all vault. My splash roo is my only non-vaulted adult and even he seems to throw them sporadically. That is super lucky...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    Wow I have always wanted bantam Australorps! There isn't a single breeder anywhere near me I always see stuff of people having them in California. We hatch a lot of partridge silkies and that's what our first chick in the broody's batch was. The colors we have in adults are a trio of white, a...
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    I think we may crack the bator open and check on the hatch rate tonight. In other news, our broody silkie hatched the first egg in her clutch. We keep our silkies in trio coops made of small wire so they can raise babies on their own. That's the great part of broody hens, we can't mess it up!
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    Yes I imagine those would be pricey though I've never even seen one for sale so I have no clue. The quail's eggs are tricky because of their size and the big brown spots on them. It's hard to discern a spot from a shadow.
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    Handled With Care Farm and Rabbitry's First Hatch-A-Long!

    Well we ended up pulling about half of the EE eggs and about ten or so of the silkie eggs--a large number were older and we wanted to test a few different egg ages. The guinea eggs look to be going strong and almost all of them have development! The quail are impossible for us to candle with...
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