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    (Video)-Cornish Cross Chick gasping for breath-Help!

    I don`t know if the Cornish X are the same breed or closely related to commercial broiler breeds like Ross, Cobb and Hubbard. If they are it`s one side effect of intensive breeding and modification of the breed. I got some chicks from a farm that I sub contract to last year and a couple had a...
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    Can anyone help with breed questions? Pictures included...

    Poppy looks like she has dark/ black coloured skin from what I can see but the feet are not clear so I could be wrong. Does she have 5 toes and very dark skin? Sometimes Silkies can have 4 toes too if they are no show quality.
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    Can anyone help with breed questions? Pictures included...

    Bleubell is not a silkie but Lotus is and possibly Poppy too
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    Make it stop!!!!!

    If you make it dark they will sleep, we use a dull emitter (ceramic heat lamp) now as we found the visible light heat lamps kept the chicks active al the time ,they just had little sleep stops then back at it again. You must give them some light too but when it`s bed time turn the light off.
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    Help why are my chickens busting thier eggs???

    If only one is doing it get it out and gone before it teaches the others to eat the eggs. There are people out and about who swear by different ways of stopping them eating but I only know of 2 that will stop it..... 1 cull the offender 2 modify the nest box so that the eggs will roll away as...
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    bedding for chicks

    We are experimenting with kiln dried sand and so far it is great, just use a kitty litter scoop to clean them out and top up sand if needed. It also holds warmth from the heat lamp
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    What is hatching rate of silkies?

    Our first attempt at hatching Silkies we got 2 out of 6 (bought) fertile so 30% our second we got 9 out of 30 (bought) again around 30% third attempt (bought) was a complete failure due to incubator and this time we got 7 out of 9 from our own eggs we have another 9 due to hatch on the 21st...
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    12 week light sussex

    That is a roo, maybe a little slower developing but a roo all the same. Give it 2 more weeks or so and you`ll be able to tell for yourself. I had 2 like that in a hatch last year. My pullets have got their red combs and wattles 2 weeks ago and they hatched in november the boys were red by the...
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    108 degrees and lost 10 eggs!

    If you can use a soldering iron there is a electronic kit availabe that I use, it`s cheap and very reliable. The company who makes it is called Velleman the kit number is MK138 and is sold worldwide, although in standard kit form it is wrong for incubator temperatures but if you change 4...
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    brinsea experience?

    Quote: Well thank you but I think the same about the USA . I really believe the the Octagon 10 is not good enough for incubation eggs atleast not for me I.m searching for a new incubator at this moment. I`m in the UK But I really want to move to Saarland or Eifel in Germany but the Harz...
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    New Chicks from our home made incubator

    We hatched 13 out of 20 set, candled at day 7 had 2 non starters 2 more had failed by day 18 and one failed after piping. So for a first run with it we are very pleased.
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    losing pullet due to ??? please help :(

    We had the same with a silkie cockerel back in February and tried all we and the vet could, we was unfortunately fighting a loosing battle and the vet advised that there was no more that could be done. We had been given Baytryl. The diagnosis was Mycoplasma gallisepticum, which only affected one...
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    New Chicks from our home made incubator

    Yes so do we, our brooder box`s are in the house as we don`t have power outside yet.
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    New Chicks from our home made incubator

    Here are some of the new chicks we hatched , some are from our own eggs which are Silkies the rest are what we had been given by a neighbour who was given them but didn`t have enough room in his. Will get some more pics and post to see if anyone has an idea what they could be. We are also...
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    New Incubator

    Here is one of the chicks just hatched, as you can see the view is great
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