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    Crooked toes - how old to too late to treat?

    I know this is an old post, but this is for people still looking at your post. It works best in chicks up to a week old. After that the cartilage hardens. The older they get the less likely it is to help. Plus it's very painful. Imagine someone bending your finger backwards a little at a time...
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    Blue Splash Marans

    I know this post is a few years old, but I thought this color chart for blue-black-splash might help others. This pertains to My breeds that follow blue-black-splash genetics.
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    HOW BEST TO PACKAGE EGGS FOR SHIPPING DO"S AND DON"TS

    I know this is old, but where did you get your foam shippers?
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    OXINE seems fabulous. Users please share usage, dosage, storage, etc.

    That is not true. Oxine does kill viruses very effectively.
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    Feathers Being Eaten - Mite?

    I know this is an old post, but this is EXACTLY what I have a experienced. I realized they had depluming mites because they looked like they had terrible rooster damage, but did not recover after a long separation. And the other clue I had was that they all started growing new feathers within...
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    Shipping Eggs Out Of The US

    Did you ever figure out the best way to send eggs to Germany? I have two people in Germany inquiring about getting eggs from me in the US.
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    Diarrhoea and not laying egg, but healthy 2 years old Plymouth Rock hen

    You don't want to give chickens fruit regularly. The high sugar is not good for them. It can cause blood sugar problems for them, plus it can cause an imbalance in the gut flora and increase yeast. It is best to give them dark leafy greens, broccoli, squash etc.
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    Safeguard Mash - Zero Day Egg Withdrawal

    This dose of 1 mg/Kg Fenbendazole is only for Safeguard Aquasol which is formulated differently from the other Safeguard dewormers. The doses when using the other forms of Safeguard are much higher and this dose would be useless if using the other Safeguard products. The dose for Fenbendazole...
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    Is this a saddled egg? Day 8 of Incubation

    I think Ocho 8 Farm has an incubator that rolls the eggs on their sides to turn them. Initially, the eggs are put in the incubator vertically, pointy end down, maybe using an egg carton or a rack. The eggs are left undisturbed for the first until day 4 when manual turning starts with the eggs...
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    Oxine Use

    I use it daily for many uses. I only use it activated because, when not activated, it does not meet the claims the company makes for what it kills, which is in agreement with what you said. I called Bio-Cide International, the maker of Oxine, and they verified that the un-activated Oxine is only...
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    Will oxine disinfect the ground?

    Oxine is much more effective in the presence of organic matter than bleach. What do you mean let dry daily?
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    Feather Sexing Marans and Ameraucanas?

    Which breed were they that the females had longer tails at one week?
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    OXINE seems fabulous. Users please share usage, dosage, storage, etc.

    Any ultrasonic humidifier (not a heated humidifier) would create droplets from 1-5 microns. This could be a humidifier manufactured in a case with controls, or a mist maker that you can put in any container of water, or Oxine in this case. Here is one I bought on Amazon that works great...
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    OXINE seems fabulous. Users please share usage, dosage, storage, etc.

    Activating Oxine with citric acid does not make a toxic solution. According to the instructions on the bottle, you should prepare a 500 ppm solution of activated Oxine to disinfect poultry and livestock housing. To prepare a 500 ppm solution of activated Oxine, I add 3.25 ml of concentrated...
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    Comment by 'Lortiz' in article 'Pelletized Bedding / Shavings'

    I switched to using bedding pellets for my chicks for my last two batches and I really prefer them to shavings. They work so much better at absorbing moisture. You don't have to clean it out. All you do is occasionally give it a stir to mix the pellets and poop. I have not had any issues with...
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