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    2.5 mos old hen can't stand or walk!!!!

    PBS is a large feed store. We have had her since she was just under a week old. She is eating and drinking like no tomorrow when awake now but still seems very weak and tires easily.
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    2.5 mos old hen can't stand or walk!!!!

    The food never gets a chance to get moldy. And Mareks... idk. I am hoping not but if it is, at least my day olds are immunized.
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    2.5 mos old hen can't stand or walk!!!!

    She hasn't been outside yet and PBS couldn't remember if they were vaccinated or not. Oh dear.... i dont know how to treat for botulism. Thank God the rest of my flock is healthy!!! She is one if my favorites tho and nobody else is sick. Just her.
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    2.5 mos old hen can't stand or walk!!!!

    My hen, an EE, ( I think) is about 2-2.5 mos old. I got her from PBS. She seemed fine then yesterday my fiance and I woke up and went to do chicken chores and found her laying in the corner looking like she was dead. I hurriedly grabbed her and started examining. She weighed NOTHING and I...
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    Broken hearted hatching for a first timer.

    I say day 19 becausw we went to bed on day 19 early, around 9ish. No pipping, movement etc. Woke up the next morning and there was a chick. We had calibrated the incubator prior to setting eggs. If the temps rose and fallen it would have all happened while we were at work. We check it every day...
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    Broken hearted hatching for a first timer.

    I know we did everything by the book even hand turning his eggs the last few days due to lockdown on mine. We are grateful for what we did hatch but so disappointed and heartbroken over the ones that didnt.
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    Broken hearted hatching for a first timer.

    Fianceand i bought a pro series incubator at TSC. Calibrated it and then set my 12 olive egger eggs in. Well as a surprise about a week later i gifted him 8 Gold Laced Brahma eggs. As of today its day 22 on his Brahma eggs. I lost 4 eggs early. 2 never developed, 1 ended up with a bloodring and...
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    April-May 2017 hatch-a-long

    We have hatched 4 out of 12 eggs for OE and are awaiting 4 more to see if anything happens and are waiting to see how ,any out of 8 GLB hatch.
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    Don't know what breed or gender you have? Click here!

    Thats what i was afraid of. They were sold as Amerecauna/araucana... but then researched the hatchery and found them also described as EE's. *sigh* off to research Welsummers. Thank you for your help.
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    Don't know what breed or gender you have? Click here!

    [/IMG] If you could please help me identify these babies. I was told one thing at the store but i have a feeling the hatchery they deal with misled the store.
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    Clarification on Ee, Americauna and Araucana please.

    Hello everyone, After doing what ibthought was very good research and learning a ton on different breeds i tjought i had a pretty good basic understanding of breeds in general. It was my understanding that Americauna and Araucana are two distinct different breeds and that Easter Eggers were...
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    Candleing help!

    I am going to candle again tonight and cross fingers there are no more blood rings. It is also whe. We should hopefully see something in the fiances eggs as well. If i lose all my olive egger eggs i think i am going to cry.
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    Candleing help!

    I never calibrated it. I didnt know how to. Or that i had to. Lol oops.
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    Candleing help!

    Salt test? Never heard of that. The eggs that are mine are day 7/8ish at time of candleing. Just crossing fingers I don't lose all of them.
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    Candleing help!

    Yes I was shining the light through the pointy end. I will try again tonight through the fat end and cross fingers I see SOMETHING. Not knowing exactly what I am looking for and the eggs being green ones idk if it will do any good tho.
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