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    Humidity Jump on hatching day

    Hi! So we got home yesterday and 15 chicks had hatched in our incubator and the humidity had jumped to 97% and we don’t know how long it was that high. We have 17 eggs left, 3 hatched today but there’s still 15 I hatched and it’s 2 days after hatching now. I know they can take a bit longer but...
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    Introducing Chickens to Turkeys

    We’ve decided to build a separate coop for the polish chickens while quarantining the females... still with 3 male turkeys you’re right we may need to get rid of two and bring in females. Will look into blackhead! So far the unsexed birds have all been males ! Being more careful going forward.
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    Introducing Chickens to Turkeys

    We raised 3 Red Bourbon Turkeys (ended up all being Toms) and 2 polish chickens (ended up being roosters) together since they were a week old and they’re inseparable, they are 3 months old now. We just got a couple of 8 week old female polish chickens for our polish roosters because they’ve been...
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    Rooster Attacked by Cat *Graphic Wound Photo

    Help! Our rooster was attacked by our neighbors cat. It really got his rear end and looks as though the skin and/or muscle that holds up his rear feathers on his right side is hanging. I rinsed it with saline and used an organic spray 3x a day yesterday and today I switched to Vetericyn Plus...
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    Chicken seizures? Lethargic and jerking head around

    Basically the vitamin boost helps stressed chickens so whatever she’s going through it should help!
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    Chicken seizures? Lethargic and jerking head around

    Yes but a little vitamin boost won’t hurt the other chickens ! :)
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    Chicken seizures? Lethargic and jerking head around

    Maybe a vitamin deficiency? You can pick up a bottle at Tractor supply. It seems to always help my chickens and turkeys when they seem lethargic. Just add to the chicken water.
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