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    Pastey butt

    you can also use a little oil to loosen the poop.
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    Pastey butt

    Medicated chick feed doesn't have anything to do with pasty butt. I've raised a lot of chicks, and i have read a lot of remedies. But i have always had the most success with simply keeping a close eye on butts for about the first week. Whenever i find a pasty butt, i clean it and then...
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    Conroe Texas Buddies?

    welcome to BYC, Mike!
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    Comment by 'PunkinPeep' in article 'Coccidiosis And Medicated Feed'

    MsRiderUp, I wouldn't worry about them filling up on soil instead of feed. One thing I've learned about chickens is that their tiny little brains are perfectly programmed to eat what they need if it is available to them. My advice is to just keep their chick feed available and provide a couple...
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    Conroe Texas Buddies?

    Hiya Coldspring!! Me too!!
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    Teaching Chicken Class! Advice plz.

    Here is one explanation i have heard. I'm still mulling it over in my mind, but i think it might have some value. We all know that the chick lives on the nutrition from the yolk for the first 3 (some say 5) days of life outside the egg. So a chick may appear to be perfectly healthy, even...
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    Does cleaning eggs with sandpaper compromise the protective properties of the bloom?

    Thanks a bunch for all the responses!
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    Hubby finished the Pvc Xmas tree lighter heater for the brooder It is so nice

    I agree about the newspaper. Can you provide a link to the youtube where you got this idea? It sounds very interesting.
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    Candling eggs

    i use a dark room and the flash light on my smart phone. turn on the light, point the light toward the ceiling, hold the egg directly on top of the light. tada! a small flashlight works too.
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    Hen bleeding from comb

    Hoping with you. Y'all stay warm and stay inside!
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    Does cleaning eggs with sandpaper compromise the protective properties of the bloom?

    I don't wash the eggs that i sell. I feel pretty confident that would shorten their shelf life, and i want my eggs to stay as fresh as possible for as long as possible for my customers. But lately, i've been having more problems than usual with marks of authenticity on my eggs. In the past, i...
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    Help again.

    I might be oversimplifying things, but i think that if i were in your shoes, i would be inclined to clean up all the bare butts, spray them down with some blue-kote type product, and put them back in the coop - but remove the trouble-maker, and see if you still have the pecking. With wounds...
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    Hen bleeding from comb

    I'm not familiar with the Vetericyn product you're using. Does it color the wound in any way? Basically, if the only reason the other hen is pecking at your girl is because she's attracted to the red wound, then if you are able to cover it with something like blu-kote, then i see no reason...
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    Staggered Hatching in Same Incubator

    That's a hard one. With that many eggs in there, the best thing, and maybe the only way to get a good hatch...would be to find someone to borrow another incubator from.
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    Teaching Chicken Class! Advice plz.

    Also.....What a GREAT JOB!!!! Go you!
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