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    Help! Hen Pecked Open Egg On Hatch Day!

    I would say get an incubator, but its a little late. hope everything goes smoothly!
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    Chicken looks like gasping for air

    make sure to give her water, looks more like a raspatory issue to me, we used antibiotics when something similar happened, also stay with her, it could be nothing, we have a bird who had a raspatory issue but was fine the next day, now she just sneezes every so often.
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    Poults 2 weeks old, vomiting, tired, swollen chest

    I've never had this happen before, are they eating and drinking? try to pick them up as little as possible, especially if there not eating. have they been passing? if not you could be right. make sure to separate them. with the sleeping one, try giving antibiotics if no one protests. I say only...
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    SOMEONE HELP!!!!

    For the future, I would recommend begining with treating the issue like she was egg bound. if I understand the issue correctly, she had an egg that wouldn't come out or was stuck that you could see?
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    Weather-proofing coop

    You don't need to bother with paint, just get some roofing or tin sheets to make a roof and VWALA weather proofed coop.
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    Dog Recommendation with Chickens Help Please

    I recommend getting a full grown dog. any puppy can grow up to be nasty to other dogs, birds, and people.
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    Engos chicken intro

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm not new to chickens. my family first got them around when I was born I think, my mom mostly took care of them before she couldn't. we ended up getting rid of them to save there lives. the two who survived the racoon attacks and...
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    Baby Chick with really messed up leg.

    For the future, if your going to kill the little guy anyway I would recommend trying to set the leg, it looks kind of like a brake that didn't heal properly, so try re breaking it setting it and attaching the leg to a "cast" you can make one with a broken popsicle stick and tape. or you could...
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    Difficult hatch, Alive, Messed up Leg and Wing

    This is the first time I've used an incubator, I'm not good at it. everything was smooth until hatch time. it started out with three dead chicks (after hatched, out of incubator,) the dilemma was that they where to close to the heat lamp. so I set up the cage I normally use for rejects (chicks...
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