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    My craziest egg in 30 years!

    This might be a fun topic - what's the goofiest egg your girls have ever presented to you? Here's mine, fresh off the nest. http://toblerglass.com/egg1.jpg
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    Help!!!! Opened incubated egg too soon! Chick's still alive?!?

    CONGRATS, kitkat!! You did an amazing job!! I didn't read this thread until it was 20 pages long and I couldn't put it down. This has all the makings of a great movie!!! LOL Suspense, intrigue, love, camaraderie, sadness, hope, joy, sympathy, empathy, beauty, adorableness, humor - what...
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    Keeping food in feeder?

    There's a slight variation in crumble sizes among manufacturers, but pellets may be even better since you're still having problems. Mash is almost a dust - probably what crumbles look like before they press them into pellets and then break them up into crumbles. As far as feeder height, mine...
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    Keeping food in feeder?

    Are you feeding mash? Or crumbles? When I was new to chickens a quarter century ago, I fed mash which was constantly strewn out of my hanging feeders. It was like the girls were having a blast playing with the stuff instead of eating it! But as soon as I switched to a good sized crumble, the...
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    Still no eggs...

    We've had Golden and Silver Laced Wyandottes for years and they've always started laying at about 5 months of age, which is just a couple weeks or so behind our Rhode Island Reds and other more specialized layer breeds. Our chicks are always Spring-hatched, usually shipped to us the first week...
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    This chicken ownership video is a RIOT!!

    This was forwarded to me and wasn't a clickable link in my email. Adding the "www" only made it worse (URL not found), so I'll just stick it in here as is and let you guys paste it into your browsers. Is this gal a member of BYC? She's a hoot...
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    Anyone noticing an unusually poor November egg production?

    For most breeds of hens to continue laying throughout the Winter, it’s imperative to provide at least 14 hours of light for them which can mean adding as much as 5 hours each day. It doesn’t have to be bright light, just a 60 watt bulb attached every few feet along the ceiling will do...
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    Has anyone ever saved a chick from what may be Mareks?

    mmaddie's mom : have been talking about a similar paralysis on another post "legs paralysed".... moldy food has come up... ? I doubt it was mold in this case, although anything is possible. I've got about 30 birds on the same feed and Percy was the only one with these symptoms. I also get a...
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    Has anyone ever saved a chick from what may be Mareks?

    UPDATE: As a final informational note, my little Percy didn't make it. He had improved greatly for 3 days and I was certain he'd recover, but then his leg paralysis returned with a vengeance. After several days of watching him regress to the point of no longer trying to move at all and...
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    Cure for Skunk stink? I don't know if this is where it should go?

    According to one study, smoke turned out to be the best remedy because it actually neutralized the odor molecules. If you happen to know an apiarist (beekeeper), ask to borrow his hand-held smoke machine and thoroughly "bathe" your stinky fellow in its fumes. (Apiarists use smoke to help...
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    Has anyone ever saved a chick from what may be Mareks?

    Thanks, Dora'smom! Your experience really seems to parallel my own. I'll head to my local mill (they know me well as I have horses and all sorts of other critters) to get the things you mention to add to Percy's vitamins in his water. I was so pleased an hour ago to see that he could stand...
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    Has anyone ever saved a chick from what may be Mareks?

    Hi all! I'm new here! I've had chickens for a quarter century, but have a new dilemma. I'm raising this year's batch of youngsters who were day-old chicks from McMurray's Hatchery 8 weeks ago. At 6 weeks of age, two of the Cuckoo Maran pullets suddenly died after being lethargic for a day...
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