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    Heating pad instead of heating lamp

    thank you!!
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    Heating pad instead of heating lamp

    I am looking for the best heating pad to keep my older chicks warm. The K&H brand that you can get at large chain pet stores doesn't seem well made at all and its very expensive. The heating pads we used as humans that you get at drug stores like Walgreen's go off automatically after awhile, so...
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    Fat Quail

    I have quail that are extremely portly. Especially the roosters. I have a rooster that was getting beat up by the other rooster in my group, so I moved him to another enclosure only to find that one of the quail in that group was in fact a rooster. He was beaten so badly that I had to separate...
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    Timing of Second Generation Quail

    Yes, I suppose I should start consuming them as well, but somehow it doesn't seem as appetizing when your pet quail present you with these perfect and beautiful eggs. If I could just get them to be consistent about the number of eggs they lay I could sell them. But that hasn't happened yet. I...
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    Timing of Second Generation Quail

    What is the best way to prevent this (see photo). I have been collecting my quails' eggs as they lay them and just put them straight in the incubator in the order in which they are collected. However I am now starting to have babies hatching at all times of the day and night any day they...
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    Egg problems

    That is the funniest thing I've ever heard! My Texas A&M's first egg was like this but afterwards they had hard shells, but were white. They don't seem to lay as well as the Italian or Pharoh varieties. My pretty quail lay the best eggs, I don't really care for the white ones so much.
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    Preventative Dose Of Corid For Baby Chicks?

    Jeesh, reading through all this was a job to get to the bottom of it. So a teaspoon is okay and I'm not going to kill my babies I have one Mille Fleur d'Uccle chick with a big piece of poop attached to its butt, just finished removing it with warm water. I don't know if that means pasty butt...
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    My chicks are getting bloody rear ends and dying.

    The Serama with the bloody butt is on the left-all healed. Mille Fleur d'Uccle is in the middle and Japanese Bantam is top right. I still hear peeping in the incubators but this is what I have so far. It seems they are spaced so far apart. I wish they hatched all together but I guess that's...
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    My chicks are getting bloody rear ends and dying.

    It has dried up. I just checked on him and it was completely dry and the down (feathers) were covering it. I kept him on a paper towel so I could gauge how much blood he lost and there were quite a few spots but its gone now. Could it have been his umbilical chord? Maybe he kicked the shell...
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    My chicks are getting bloody rear ends and dying.

    I have a Serama chick with one bloody spot on its rear end and nothing else. It hasn't been in contact with other chicks. It came out of the incubator that way. It was really loud and sounded like it was in distress, so I pulled it out even though he was still wet. He is under a black bulb...
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    Poultry Breeders Business Ethics - Poultry Diseases and "Rare" Chickens

    Well this should be warning to chicken hobbyists who fancy a rare breed. Some inexperienced breeders risk starting an epidemic when they breed and sell these chickens with little regard for their health, and the health of their customers' flocks. Its too tempting for them to ignore a chance to...
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    Poultry Breeders Business Ethics - Poultry Diseases and "Rare" Chickens

    There is no discharge by the way, and no respiratory distress as described in the Merck manual. This is what makes me think that it is some other form of conjunctivitis.
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    Poultry Breeders Business Ethics - Poultry Diseases and "Rare" Chickens

    I believe my girlfriend found this breeder through a group of poultry fanciers, centered around this breed that is popular because it is small, social and very hardy. It is typically hard to find this particular breed during the late Fall early Winter period. It is in demand because it has good...
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    Poultry Breeders Business Ethics - Poultry Diseases and "Rare" Chickens

    Can someone report a breeder to the Department of Agriculture anonymously, or will they keep your contact information confidential? I'm sure the woman will know its my girlfriend that reported her, because she will remember the details because she is a small operation. We looked for reviews on...
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    Won my first assorted Greenfire Farms auction! Woohoo!

    That's how they "pay" for the auction or make money off it, by charging everyone $3. Three dollars indeed! To prove you are not a robot? Why not just used Captcha?
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