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    Green legs white feathers.......help what is it!

    I have a home bred leghorn pullet like this, she hatched yellow and feathered out white, but this past week or so (she's about 12 weeks old now) she's developed a brown breast, bigger patch of brown than yours but same sort of colour. So I'm trying to fingure out what the heck is going on too...
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    Recovering from cocci baby chicks

    I'm having the same issue - 25 years raising poultry and this is my first experience with cocci. The sick birds are a batch of 13 chicks I hatched in an incubator from my own birds eggs. the incubator was thoroughly disinfected with incubator sanitiser, as were the eggs before setting. Chicks...
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    Brinsea Ovation 28 EX - Evaporation Block Alternative

    Hi, I've got the same issue - a decent first hatch, but they were goslings and really messed up the incubator during the hatch, including the evaporation block. I couldn't get it clean and fresh, so did the best I could and reused it. Second hatch was a mix of duck and chicken eggs, most of the...
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    Introduction

    Hi, I'm Jo from Scotland, I keep a mixture of poultry including Wheaten and Black copper maraans, various colour Leghorns, White stars, Araucanas, Cream legbars, a few olive eggers, Cayuga ducks, Runner ducks, Khaki Campbell and German Pekin ducks, as well as Shetland and Sebastapol geese, and a...
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    Shetland geese

    I have Shetlands, I'm in Scotland where there are a few more around - still very rare though. They're difficult to breed; I set about 20 eggs last year (2021), 6 that I picked up from a breeder an hour away and the rest from my own geese, most were fertile and developed, but only one hatched and...
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