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    Maran with swollen belly/bum

    I don’t like culling either, I also dont eat meat, but the broom method is the easiest for me, my hands shake too much for a hatchet. I pull hard enough to pull the head off, I want to make sure the chicken is dead, after that just walk away for a bit as the chicken will move like crazy.
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    water belly but still laying and hen laying soft eggs sometimes and then a few hens not molting

    i did trim the rear feathers really short, im trying to watch for fly strike, but so far been lucky. Its in the 60-70's here. No the two year olds havent slowed down on laying since they started at like 9 months, while the other two siblings molted this spring. well they didnt grow any new ones...
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    Got us some ex commercial hens. <3

    so your birds were free range, indoor birds? they dont look too old? there is a small egg producing farm that free ranges his birds. used to be cow fields, but he bought it and fenced it in better and moves the trailer around for the hens and lgd's, he sells them on the 2nd year for like $10...
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    water belly but still laying and hen laying soft eggs sometimes and then a few hens not molting

    3-4 year old cream legbar with what i think is water belly, she has had it since this spring and still eating and being boss. She lays bantam size eggs 5 days a week. i clean her rear once a week since its so yukky but try not to pick her up much since its got to be uncomfortable. then i have a...
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    Maran with swollen belly/bum

    i had a cream legbar that had a hernia, eventually the skin got really thin and one day i let her free range with the others and turned around as i was cleaning a stall and saw the chickens chasing her, ran over to her and her intestines were starting to hang out. luckily i had a shovel and...
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    lost another quail :(

    i was looking for larger size birds, they are still small probably for jumbo standards
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    lost another quail :(

    I really wanted the jumbo celadon hence i cant shop locally.
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    Spoiler alert: The coop made it to the finish line. Just three years and a whole life chapter later.

    what did you use for the walls before going into the coop? need to cover my shed walls and cant figure otu what to use
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    Are Splash silkies harder to raise?

    i used to raise silkies, i loved them. splash is almost everyone's favorite color, but alot breed splash x splash and you get dilute splashes that way :( i didnt have any difference in survival rate on colors. i bred away from vaulted heads as i think its terrible. i also have silverudds...
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    lost another quail :(

    yesterday night and today everyone was fine. I changed out the feeder to one with holes in it for less waste and more feed. they were out of feed at night but they werent very hungry when i turned the lights on for an hour to see if they were hungry. the water also wasnt empty so im not sure why...
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    lost another quail :(

    they call when its at the post office usually at 7am in the morning.
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    lost another quail :(

    its about 70-73 in the room so not super hot. i cant remember, but it was a week or so. its so weird how fast they grow. I found a person who also has the line of birds that may sell me some started chicks to ship this fall. what age would you consider ideal for shipping? thought it was alot...
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    lost another quail :(

    the lady i bought the eggs from suggested adding the heat lamp, it is for reptiles not those huge bulbs at the feed store. this was when they were young, they dont have heat anymore after they started not hanging under it.and when they stopped going under the heat plate i turned that off too...
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    lost another quail :(

    so my fun project is not fun anymore. I ordered alot of eggs and only had a dozen and a half hatch( iwas hoping for a 50% hatch rate due to be shipped). then the chicks kept dieing. Im not sure from what. I bought turkey starter with the proper protein, but i didnt grind it. As it seems to be...
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    Sweeter Heater

    thinking of getting a sweeter heater. Does it work well for raising chicks/quail? i have a brinsea and i raise in the house but i think it wasnt warm enough? i really dont want to use a heat lamp 24/7. What size do you have? debating on the 11x16 or the 11x30. $25 difference and the first is...
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