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    incubating "old" eggs

    She had been collecting them. In fact, I just remembered that one off the viable ones was one we found deep in the straw and put in the bator two days later. So maybe it's too soon to count that one out.
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    incubating "old" eggs

    I think these eggs are goners, but here was the situation: We had a precious pair of bantam modern game chickens. The rooster was lost and about a week later we found the hen had hidden a nest. We put about 6 eggs in the incubator and after candling were down to 2 viable ones. I didn't know...
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    progressively lame poult

    We have four, month old poults that we got one week ago for our 4-H projects. They have been eating well on 28% protein game bird starter. One was slightly smaller than the others and was lame on one foot about three days ago. I chalked it up to an injury, as the other three had figured out...
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