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    Tell me about your internal layers

    hi what you found was a lash, its the reproductve tract and usually they do better when it is out, its the henopause of the chicken! with internal laying they blow up like a balloon and walk up right like a penguin some get it early , some get it around 2-3yrs old,but when they have layed a lash...
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    well ive got 2 left to hatch now 16 are out,but i am going to candle the 12 polish i put in when these 2 hatch then hubby says incy has to go away he doesnt want to be over run! im sure at some point i can do more
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203539901760455&set=a.2574939695079.146145.1301936448&type=1&theater well i have13 so far and 5 due on mon-tues but the naughty incubator filled itself up again wi12 polish eggs i have 4 polish and the others come from a mix of bluebell, speckledy...
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    well im on day 20 and ive had a steady temp but humidity has been as low as 15 i put 2 cups of water in daily on top of a towel and paper towels in a fiem 50 with a circulating fan but i went on lock down sunday and out of 22 i have 18 fertile but ive just added water and 2 have pipped so i...
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    well my eggs are off my own hens, i have set 7 polish 1 auracana 1 silver laced wyndott and 13 mixes that will be fathered by my brahma or polish males my hens are warren, bluebell, copper moran, speckldy, magpie, black rock, so should be interesting i candled last night at day 10 and out of 22...
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    well im on day 7 i candled tonight and out of 16 there are 12 deff 2 look unfertile and 2 are just too dark to see through, so will do again on day 10 and remove any deff not fertile so we will see what happens im suprised with how my humidity has been
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    its a fiem 50 with a circulating fan but i cant get humidity to stay up it drops to below 10% so i put warm water in, ive just put paper towels and a towling one on top to try and keep it up but i dont think it will as the fan dries everything up the temp is stable though
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    glad to see things are developing for you all, i candled a couple last night all looking good so far, but as they say "dont count your chickens until they hatch" im just waiting until my new torch comes! and then i can have a real look hopefully it will come tom, just wish i could get the...
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    Setting eggs 4-3-14

    i set mine on the 3rd of april, this is my 3rd hatch in 12mths , the 1st one was a disaster i borrowed a brinsea octogan 20 with auto turner, but wasnt sure what to do! i set 10 3 hatched on days 26-27 opened others and 4 were fully developed but dead and 3 died at various stages so i bought a...
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    2 of my hens got really tired,dont want to eat i think its contagious.

    hi you will have to give anti biotics because if you dont it will spread and you will lose some birds, get some tylan or deniguard, its poss mycoplasma, you have done right in seperating but make sure they are eating and drinking
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    Diary of a Crossbeak: Support for Special Needs Chickens and their Keepers

    i lost my little polish girl oddie at 6mths old but if you look at my profile pic you can see how bad it was! i used to trim with a pedi as well, but she could only eact chick crumb but used to drink well, but she could have had other things going on internally !
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    How To Raise A Rooster

    nov last year i had 7 roos running with 30 hens all was good until my rir had his full moult then bang! he started ripping shreds off my 6mth old roos so i rehomed him then i had to rehome 2 others for fighting,that left 3 x 6mth olds i lost them 1 by 1 with some strange illness but then my...
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    cockerel alert but cant walk help!

    my poor boy coal died yesterday at day 19 he had started pushing with his legs and gaining weight, dont know why did he have another siezure? but when i checked him over his skin was very transparent so much that you could see his liver through it, i decided to cut him open just to see and his...
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    cockerel alert but cant walk help!

    thank you! but nothing on the list jumps out at me here is a brief history of my last 2yrs of having chickens this time! i started with 12 pol warrens and a bantem cock, they deminished cock and 4 hens got pinched,5 hens got eyp or died, then i got a rir cock with remaining 3 hens, so i bought...
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    cockerel alert but cant walk help!

    hi thanks for that, but this is a strange one! its day 13 now, this morning when i was letting them out i heard a lot of thrashing about from his coop, when i opened him up he was having a fit it lasted a few mins his head going back etc, and he was tired after, this is the 1st one hes had, but...
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