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    Help, I think my poor chick is dying!

    Makes sense, the chicks come from a large-scale hatchery, so I'm sure things get overlooked occasionally.
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    Help, I think my poor chick is dying!

    Well, last night the poor girl passed on. Unfortunately, it was probably for the best. I sent my dad out to the nearest Tractor Supply earlier in the day, and they didn't have any vitamin D. My parents are going to a VA diet class, and afterwards will go to the nearby local feed store to see if...
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    Help, I think my poor chick is dying!

    Thank you for your reply! Doesn't sound like anything else? I have them on a medicated chick feed from the feed store, so I'm not sure how they would have gotten that while none of my others did. I will give the vD3 treatment if I can get my hands on it somewhere.. I wonder if the feed store...
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    Help, I think my poor chick is dying!

    I have an Americauna bantam that's around a month old. She has been getting worse and worse. She, along with my golden-laced wyandotte that's the same age, started spazzing out weeks ago. I thought they were just afraid, nay terrified, of me and were shaking out of fear (why? I dunno. never had...
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    Laid a strange egg, stopped laying, and now has a wound on her wattle...

    What a pretty hen :) I think you were right about the fowl pox... she has more spots now. I suppose I just wait it out? And thanks for the help!
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    Laid a strange egg, stopped laying, and now has a wound on her wattle...

    Eek that doesn't sound good. I edited in some pics, I meant to put them in before posting but forgot.
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    Laid a strange egg, stopped laying, and now has a wound on her wattle...

    Hello! Maybe two weeks ago, my delaware hen laid a yolk and a rubbery egg-thing with a yolk in it on the top of the coop one evening. After that, she hasn't laid an egg since. Soon after though, I noticed a hard bump on one of her wattles that look scabbed up. Today, it's quite worse and...
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    I have a strange question... (regarding covering corrugated roofing)

    Thanks everyone for your advice! I decided to forget about the pvc panels and I went ahead and bought some terra cotta-colored polycarbonate roofing. I really wanted to use the pvc because it's here and it will just be thrown away if not used. But, I really did not want to have to go through all...
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    I have a strange question... (regarding covering corrugated roofing)

    I should have said that the roofing will go over the run; I have the coop pretty much done :) Here are some pictures; please excuse the mess! My crape myrtle is shedding all over the panels in the second picture. I'm going to make a wooden frame out of furring strips and attach the...
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    I have a strange question... (regarding covering corrugated roofing)

    I have decided to reuse my dad's old corrugated pvc roofing panels that he had on his greenhouse (he tore half of it down and is going to put tin roofing on the other half to make a shed). The thing is, these panels are discolored and a bit weakened from being in the sun. They are only about a...
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    Medicated chick feed and eggs

    If only two of my five pullets didn't die two months ago... they were all the same age, so I could have just switched them to the laying feed. Ah well. Thanks for the replies! Is Amprolium and/or Lasalocid related to Monensin? Please forgive my ignorance, I'm just not familiar with this stuff at...
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    Medicated chick feed and eggs

    Hi! I just got a nice blue egg from one of my gals (and I haven't even built the nest box D: ). Right now I'm feeding them a mix of flock raiser and medicated chick feed with 'monensin' (weaning them off the medicated stuff). Are the eggs edible? If not how long should I wait after fully...
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    In a bad spot -- 2 month olds and 5 month olds

    Oooh, thanks for the info! I would have never thought to do that
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    In a bad spot -- 2 month olds and 5 month olds

    Ah ok, thanks! I was thinking of getting something like flock raiser, but the man at the feed store just seemed so confident. Once I run out of the rest of the medicated feed, I'll pick up some flock raiser. I just hope the layer mash will last 3 months :P
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    In a bad spot -- 2 month olds and 5 month olds

    Hello, I currently have three ~2-month-olds and three ~5-month-olds that are living together. I'm currently feeding them medicated chick feed, but I know that it's almost time for the older ones to start eating laying feed. I talked to someone at the feed store, and he said to get 20% laying...
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