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    Chick didnt hatch but was still alive

    Thank u. So gutted. A couple wobbled so i popped them back in incubator. My last two hatches have been awful. I buy eggs and they get posted to me. Im collected the next lot to see if its helps
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    Chick didnt hatch but was still alive

    I am so upset with myself. I had Rhode Island Reds and French Cooper Marans in to hatch. Absolute disaster... They were due to hatch yest, nothing happening today so I boobed them in water and I candled ... no signs of life so I gently cracked them open. In one, a chick was only about 2/3s...
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    My Hen has Sour Crop!

    Mine has it too. I did the ACV but now it appears to be thicker fluid coming out. I massaged her crop during the week and a lot of foul smelling fluid came out. She is picking at food but seems quite weak and has lost a lot of weight. I have separated her with another hen for company. She isnt...
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    Blue Copper Marans?

    Little stubs of feathers yes. Bigger than the marans...
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    Blue Copper Marans?

    Sure...thank u
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    Here they r now. I think my wheaten is a cockerel
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    He is meant to be a copper but i think he will be a black! Turned out the breeder isnt telling the truth and running different cockerels with the hens!
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    Blue Copper Marans?

    One of my copper marans is yellow almost orange on its back! What the heck??? Pic attached
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    My little guy now
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    Newbie

    Hi. I am new to chickens. Actually I was terrified of them following a vicious cockerel of my nans as a young girl. But I wanted to share my Dad's hobby. I would collect the eggs but only I was able to vault the fence and shut the chickens out first. Now... 2 years on... I will hold one...
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    Curled toes

    Hi there. I had a chicken with both feet having curled toes. I used masking tape... i laid his toes on the tape, moved them into correct position of how they should sit, leaving the back one free, and then put the tape over the top to make a bootie on each foot. Leave on four 48hrs. Google...
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    Better definitely. He still stumbles over but the masking tape booties really straightened his toes out and stopped him walking on his hocks. He accidently pecked the foot of my other chick, Uno. He was not impressed!
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    I only had some baby parrot vitamins! I put a drop in and have ordered some chick one
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    weak chick.is the black maran
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    3 day old maran chick not eating

    It is a bit runny actually ... It had clear fluid too but that has stopped now. He is very needy! I put my hand in the box and he will come out and eat. I take my hand out and he shoots back under his brooder! He is finally pecking food on the tray. Not just from my hand
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