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    Please Help

    Sorry to hear about your hen :-( You are brave doing an autopsy, I should have done that on the hen we lost a good while back. She was really skittish and sounded a huge alarm whenever another bird landed in the yard and she seemed to have died on the same spot she sounded the alarm each time...
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    3-4 w. old chick not eating/drinking

    I know it's yucky but you have to force the mouth open, not the most glamourous thing...but they do forgive you. Has this happened just recently to another chick? Could this be nothing to do with the fly?
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    Emergency!!!!! Please Help!!!!

    Poor thing, she looks pretty sad :( But sounds like you have some strong possibilities of what it is and they are better than the unsolvable possibilities. Hope you are able to get it sorted without too much trouble.
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    Mycoplasma how can I fix it?

    Eggcessive that was an awesome post, I've just read that whole list and feeling a lot more informed, thanks
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    Bloody stool

    Can I ask K R 2709, Is Corid the brand name or the active ingredient? I'm in Australia an don't seem to have a lot of these things available. However it might just be a different brand. Hope it's nothing too bad Shellraiser!
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    Puffy eye on chick.

    Thanks Eggcessive! (for some reason I posted this right after you but it didn't work so here goes again!) She (I think) is 11 weeks old. We have one adult and four other chicks. I have had a good look at the others eyes and none of them have any signs of issues, so hopefully I have isolated...
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    3-4 w. old chick not eating/drinking

    Hi, I'm sorry to hear this, mine has a bad eye but is completely acting normal. Must be terrible to watch, I wish I had some advice but my only idea would be to make sure that you get some sort of food into the chick so that whatever was in they fly (if it is that) is diluted. That is how you...
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    How to save money on chicken feed?

    Thanks!
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    How to save money on chicken feed?

    I haven't heard of fermenting chick feed...how does that work?
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    Puffy eye on chick.

    Hi all, Was very sad to see that the most friendly girl in our new set of chicks has a puffy eye! Thank you for all of the threads people have posted about this in the past. I have cleaned the eye out with eye irrigation liquid from our first aid kit. And following the advice on other threads...
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    How to save money on chicken feed?

    G'day farmerkevin, Sounds like you have a great community that can help you with scraps. I'm assuming they're getting protein in the feed you're buying? The worms I'm breeding are high in protein and can be gut-loaded with things your chooks need like calcium if they appear to be lacking. If...
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    How to save money on chicken feed?

    Hi, Well so far I've had mine for about two months and I now have my first set of bettles. It's hard to know if they've been breeding and laying eggs because they are tiny and clear but I hope that in a month maybe I'll have hundreds of larvae (meal worms). All they need is a dark place, some...
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    How to save money on chicken feed?

    Hi Guys, I've started breeding meal worms or darkling beetles in order to give my chooks some high protein and affordable food. I will let you know how I go, as I have just begun, but so far it has been very cheap to run. I bought one pack of worms for 10 Aussie Dollars and so far I have 30...
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    Pekin Bantam Chicks- Boys or girls?

    Great! Well that sounds promising that we will hopefully get a couple of hens hopefully :-D thanks! Can you tell me what you are looking at to make those predictions? That way I might be able watch them with a bit of knowledge :-D
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    Pekin Bantam Chicks- Boys or girls?

    Sorry I forgot to say the chicks are six weeks old
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