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    Chicken with Vertigo - Dizzy

    What kind of a antibiotic did you use?
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    Injured leg

    I have a teenage pulled who started limping the other day. She was hatched early May, so she's about 3 months old (blue Whiting's). Of course she's our favorite. I separated her from the flock because they were being jerks. She has a really hard time walme.walming, it splays to the side, and...
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    What's your "Dream Flock"? How many chickens is the perfect amount for you? What breeds do you adore?

    My dream flock would be a couple of every egg color layer.
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    Help! I just found out about still vs forced air temps

    One hatched this morning! No other pips yet, but that was encouraging
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    Help! I just found out about still vs forced air temps

    I just talked to the woman who gave me the incubator. She's used it several times and always at 99.5... she's never had a problem. Maybe they just take a little longer to cook? I'll update if any hatch.
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    Help! I just found out about still vs forced air temps

    Thank you
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    Help! I just found out about still vs forced air temps

    I didn't have a backup. Time will tell, I also don't want to open the incubator and risk messing them up more. Wondering if it would help to bump the temp this late in the game.
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    Help! I just found out about still vs forced air temps

    I researched like crazy before starting this endeavor, and on day 22 I'm looking for things to calm me down as to why my eggs are still not hatching. I just now found the info suggesting different temps for still vs forced air. I have a still air incubator. I've kept it at 99.5 degrees, the...
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    Chicken wounded by dog! Should I give amoxicillin? How much?

    Thank you. I opted not to give them the meds, and they seem to be fine. The next problem to solve is why no one will lay eggs except Lucy. A couple are actively molting, a couple are coming of age, the rest are just being lazy (or so it seems).
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    Chicken wounded by dog! Should I give amoxicillin? How much?

    I just had 2 little dogs chew a hole through the fence and into our run. We were away at the time and I came home to 10 missing birds and feathers EVERYWHERE! No bodies could be found. So we searched the yard and slowly uncovered 10 living birds. I couldn't believe it! Some had literally buried...
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    New girls... What are they?

    What are you supposed to do with chickens in the critical conservation list??
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    New girls... What are they?

    I've never heard of this. There are two, and they're twins.
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    New girls... What are they?

    My best guess is speckled Sussex and Ameraucana, but the people I adopted them from had no idea what I was talking about. The white one seems to be a Cochin bantam. They're all gorgeous, about a yearish old, and they were free to a good home because they didn't know how to introduce new hens and...
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    Grey Ladybugs???

    I just found one at my place (Roseville, ca) yesterday. It was beautiful.
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    Pullet or cockeral olive egger

    Anyone here in the sacramento area want a free olive egger roo?
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