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    Dislocated jaw or broken jaw in young chick? solutions?

    I should add that this chick is not used to flash photography and was a bit upset at the whole photo shoot! (I can't really blame it).
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    Dislocated jaw or broken jaw in young chick? solutions?

    This is a 1 month old hatchery polish chick which has a dislocated?? or broken lower jaw. Is there something that can be done to straighten it? The bird is eating and drinking on it's own and we did not notice the issue until last week. Please give me some ideas or should we just humanely put...
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    Mid January Hatch thread....

    Well, it looks like my chicks incubated a we bit fast since I woke up to find one that just hatched and a bunch more pipped. Here is my very un-coordinated still wet early bird. This one is an Easter Egger mutt based on the green shell that she (thinking positively here) departed from...
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    Mid January Hatch thread....

    My eggs just entered lock down for a 1/21 hatch date. I cannot wait!!! I started with 42 "mutts" and culled 10 "blanks" along the way. Now I sit and hope that the remaining 32 are all girls! They gang is in a Genesis incubator for it's 3rd hatch. The first hatch was excellent, the second...
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    Genesis 1588 Not maintaining temp?

    All, This will be my 3rd hatch in this incubator. I bought it about 2 years ago and hatched 2 sets out at first. The first had a nearly 100% hatch rate and the second went down to 35% or so. I did notice that the temperature did not want to stay up when I was setting my second batch but...
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    Meyers: Positives and Negitives--what's your experience?

    Quote: I just ordered the Assortment of Rainbow Pullets it should be here either next Wednesday or Thursday. In fact 50 of them what kind did you get? I just got my order of 25 this morning from Meyer of the Rainbow pullets and all but 1 are dead with the last one barely hanging on. I called...
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