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    Fewer droppings over last few weeks and soft shells

    That is wayyy too many extras/treats you are giving daily. I would highly recommend cutting the treats down and only giving them one handful of treats a couple days a week. I would completely cut out the corn except on a rare occasion. Every chicken I have butchered that was regularly fed corn...
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    Can anyone tell me what day of incubation this goose egg is on?

    Around day 7
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    Advice please- What is this in my chickens poop?

    You can keep feeding what you are feeding, but if they are leaving the pellets out I would wet it at least. When a chicken is free ranged they can pick what they need from the feed because they are getting the bulk of what they need free ranging. The feed at that point is more supplemental...
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    Advice please- What is this in my chickens poop?

    Yes the Milo is what you are seeing in their poop. Are you fermenting or wetting the Henhouse Reserve into mash? Chickens will pick out what they want and in many cases leave the nutritional aspect (pellets or powdered vitamin minerals behind). This often results in vitamin deficiencies.
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    B2/Riboflavin Deficiency Treatment?

    The lower dosage would make sense for Riboflavin deficiency since it has 5mg of Riboflavin per 1ml. I use it to treat niacin so always dose at 1ml to provide double the niacin dose needed daily for ducks.
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    Advice please- What is this in my chickens poop?

    What is your chickens diet? Including any treats?
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    Duckling Eye Issue!

    It’s not uncommon when some of the egg contents get stuck on the eye. When the eye gets irritated from foreign matter it will excrete mucus in an attempt to self flush. For these cases I wipe with a warm damp towel twice a day for the first couple of days which usually clears it up. If it...
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    B2/Riboflavin Deficiency Treatment?

    One thing to note is that if you don’t want to inject the Durvet B complex it can also be given orally at 1ml per bird. I along with many others in this forum have used it for ducks in particular for years. I have not given it to chickens because I have not needed to, but it is also safe for them.
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    Polish Chick

    Polish are slow growers and eventually reach a similar size to other mid sized breeds, but the problem is their crests. Other chickens love to pluck their crests. Sometimes it can work, but I personally never recommend polish in a mixed flock unless you can have multiple polish (they tend to...
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    Chick Hernia?

    You could just leave it be if you wanted. I always put a dab of original neosporin on them to prevent infection.
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    Question: can the brooder be too big?

    No. I brood my chicks in a 10’x10’ room in the barn. As in the entire room is my brooder with shavings on the floor and they have access to all of it. The only time I divide it is if I have both chickens and ducklings brooding at the same time. They love all of the extra space and even when they...
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    6 Day Old Chick With Bubbles Coming Out of Mouth

    Thats fairly normal after a chick drinks water. The stretching of the neck and opening of the mouth was adjusting her crop to get everything to go down.
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    Chick Hernia?

    This is the naval correct? If so do NOT try to push it back in. The little budge has to absorb back in on its own and the brown nubby part will fall off. Trying to push it back in will only hurt your chick. It looks like it is healing up just fine. Have you ever seen a human newborns umbilical...
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    Newly hatched chick can't stand help

    I would give her b vitamins stat. I use Poultry Cell for cases like this and it works wonders.
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    Runt Pekin Duckling

    I agree I think the small one is a white layer.
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