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    HELP!! My hen can't breathe

    reading speckled chickens rules of raising chickens and #8 was cull a sick chicken. so, I'm thinking if it's true that chickens don't get colds, we should off her? poor girl.
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    HELP!! My hen can't breathe

    uh-oh. new at the chickens, and never thought about worming them. details?
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    HELP!! My hen can't breathe

    my hen too is having trouble. we have 7 year old laying hens, and just added 8 2 mos. old chicks to the coop. the hen with the problem is supposed to be a golden sex-linked we picked up last year at the feed store. this morning my son and i noticed her weazing. i actually thought that she...
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    bloody chick. help!

    thanks. will see how he does. it does look a bit like intestine or something. But, he isn't acting different than the other chicks
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    bloody chick. help!

    most of our eggs are hatching well, but we had one hatch that was bloody and has something pink sticking out of it's rear. I assume this is bad. should I see how he does or should i put him out of his misery now?
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    First Hatch, Due Febuary 25. Who's with me?

    hatching today!!!! 7already and more pipping and peeping, but one was bloody and seems to have something pink coming out it's rear. intestines? should i put it out of it's misery or wait and see how it does?
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    collecting eggs for incubation

    excellent! thanks for the help. 28 eggs total, 6 black copper marans, 14 golden sexed-link/black copper, and the rest are ee/black coppers. I'm so excited to see how these crosses will turn out.
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    collecting eggs for incubation

    how many days old can eggs be before you get them in the incubator? We have been collecting for 3-4 days now.
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    timing of egg laying?

    We have 9 chickens (2 black copper marans rooster, 1 black copper hen, 2 golden sex-linked hens, and 4 ameracauna hens). They are about 4.5 months old and still waiting for our first eggs. We have them in a very secure coop with a 25x7ft run complete with 2 grapevines, in which they love to...
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    bloody stool

    they are eating start to finish from robinsons feed. i believe it is medicated. They have about a 20 ft. run and can eat whatever is in there (just grass, there are 2 grapevines that grow there but don't have grapes yet) What would i do for cocci?
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    bloody stool

    I recently moved my 2mos old chicks into their new coop. I opened it this morning to let them out and found stool surrounded by a pool of blood. there were several more areas in the coop like this. I couldn't identify anything out of the ordinary with any of my girls. Should i be alarmed...
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    development of opened "dead" chicks

    thank you all for the wonderful advice. I think we will try again sometime soon. I am just amazed that it is soo complicated and difficult to reproduce a process that happens by itself in nature. I can't figure out how a hen knows to stop turning her eggs on the 18th day??!! That is amazing...
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    development of opened "dead" chicks

    still need suggestions for stage of development of these chicks and any ideas of what happened to them....is this a homemade incubator problem?
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    development of opened "dead" chicks

    none of the 3 precious and expensive wheaten marans progressed much at all.... does anybody know a source of wheaten chicks?
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    development of opened "dead" chicks

    also all the eggs that formed chicks were in the center of the incubator... i don't know if that is significant. I just shudder at spending 200$ on an incubator for a one time hatch.
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