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    Newborn chick doing fine now convulsing and not lifting head

    turkeys** tlc**
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    Newborn chick doing fine now convulsing and not lifting head

    We just hatched two Turkey's, the first one seems fine but this second one isnt. She started off bad. She wasn't moving, standing, peeping or opening her eyes. I took her out and gave her some told and she started progressing, opening her eyes, lifting her head and standing. Then i just went to...
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    Turkey making no progress after 24 hours

    He's doin good now, we got him out and he's moving and cheaping. Now I need to figure out the best way to get him to eat and drink? I kept hearing people say that Turkeys aren't too bright and won't eat or drink like they should without some sort of assistance. I dont know how true that is, but...
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    Turkey making no progress after 24 hours

    Our first turkey started hatching yesterday afternoon, he's the first out of six fertile eggs to begin hatching. My husband helped him out a little bit, enough that he could at least breath as he progresses. However, it has been almost 24 hours and it doesn't seem to have made any progress. It's...
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    Hello

    Meant to do this one instead of the other. More heads here.
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    Hello

    Try this again here. Photos:
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    Egg eating! help!

    We had the same problem with ours a while back. We gave them oyster shells and if we were able to figure out the culprit we separated them from the rest of the flock until they were able to break the habit. I would definitely offer your flock a side of oyster shells mixed with a little grit to...
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    Tractor Supply Co Sexing - Accurate?

    At least 16 years old I believe, we had gates around ours too. The one I work at is in a small town so we only get the chicks once a year in the spring and, at least at my store, the employees are really good at taking care of them. Unfortunately, being shipped across country right after...
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    Tractor Supply Co Sexing - Accurate?

    I actually work at a tractor supply and handled them quite a bit. I dont know about other TSCs but at the one I work at, the babies arrive at the post office with a label on what breed they are. Whenever I cleaned the brooders i did one at a time and just worked around the chicks without taking...
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    Unique Introduction

    I'll definitely try that then. Thank you. One other thing though, the mama hen is a bantam so she's smaller then the majority of the flock. However, they dont seem to have any issues with the other bantam (gold laced sebright) that has been a part of the flock since day one. Do you think it will...
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    Unique Introduction

    Thank you everyone! Sorry about any confusion, I had posted that right before bed and I guess my sleepiness leaked into the message. Here's what happened: We bought the mama hen from a friend (she had a whole bunch of chicks with her at the time that she was temporarily fostering, as our friend...
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    Can roosters have a 'type' ?

    Our flock started first with chicks that we were raising at someone else's property because they had more room and experience (we are working on building a farm to eventually move the flock to). Then we attended a small animal auction, and so it began. We brought home a rooster named Rocky that...
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    Unique Introduction

    So a couple weeks back we bought a mother hen and six chicks, unfortunately she only accepted four of them (only the ones the same color as her; four were black, the other two were yellow, is this unusual?) and the other two didn't make it. Anyway, at this point the chicks are at least a month...
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    Unknown Difficulties

    Awesome! I actually started reading this one earlier this week xD One of the main reasons I wanted to make an account on this site is because whenever I do research, posts from this website are always the first to pop up and are the most informative.
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    Unknown Difficulties

    The styrofoam incubator has a fan yes, and I think the new one does too, I think its a forced air one. We have been using the built in one, so I'll definitely get a gauge for it too, thank you very much for the links. Another question, when do you know when to help a chick hatch and when to not...
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