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    Cracking/ purring sound

    A rooster I have had for a couple months makes a crackling noise sometimes almost like a purring. Generally he only does it at night when sleeping and increases when you are stroking him or carrying him. He came like this and I isolated him, he didn't die, have any other symptoms, was a very...
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    disabled chick loves to dust on me

    now she is about 4 weeks? coming on 5... she was 3 weeks in this picture
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    disabled chick loves to dust on me

    I refuse, I will force her to love me forever :( poultry are great company! and good food (so conflicted) Ducks are next on the list! though im afraid of the duck level of inprinting... might give the ducks to my chickens to raise when i get them
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    Extreme Wry Neck!

    update for anyone who wants it... chick doing well and she (I hope its a she, please someone reassure me, buff orpington) LOVES CUDDLES WITH DADDY
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    disabled chick loves to dust on me

    I have a wry necked chick (who i am treating and is a lot better, though improvement has stopped) They come to me when I call their name, runs behind me when they are scared and when I pick them up for cuddles they bury their head into my arm and start scratching and flapping (very merrily btw...
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    Extreme Wry Neck!

    Smoothie: Spinach, water, honey (or sugar will do not too much though...maybe 4 tea spoons for a whole litre at most...is what I am doing) this is all you need and then feed it with your dropper (just as much as it will take). if you do it right you can get the chicks to think their beak is in...
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    Extreme Wry Neck!

    The chick is actually doing well, we had some issues getting it to take food because it couldnt pick up chick crumb. so here is what we did (with good results so far) day zero of treatment: We created a smoothie with spinach, sugar and water and gave this soloution to it (it could not lift its...
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    Extreme Wry Neck!

    any help would be amazing!
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    Extreme Wry Neck!

    I have a new born chick that has super bad wry neck; it can support it for a short while but then basically drags its head on the floor, pretty much upside down. I am giving it 25mcg of selenium a day and 2x 500ui of vit E. Along with feeding it through a blended mixture of high vit E ruffage /...
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    Buff orpingtons - sexing - wing feathers

    Ah ok I will take this into mind. I am about to hatch (or trying) another 30 eggs, it doesnt matter in long term because I will eat the males but would be nice to sex them ASAP so I know which ones I can get attached to :jumpy
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    Buff orpingtons - sexing - wing feathers

    We only had 2 hatch from our 12 (poor we know, we cracked open the eggs after to investigate, interestingly one of the unhatched chicks intestines were on the outside!? guess we know why that one did not make it....ANYWAY) The chicks just turned a week old at day 5 the biggest and baddest chick...
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    Does anyone know some good names for this two week old chicks

    Peckahontas
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    Tired chick

    Hello all, I have 2 new chicks, 1 about a day older than the other, the younger one seems to be very tired still (27 hours since hatch), it had a very long 30 hour hatch so I am not suprised its tired, when dry it will be moved into the brooder but should I be concerned right now with how tired...
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    Hatching questions

    Temperatures have been identical 38 degrees for both, though I think the manual one has been dried out more than the other and HU is set the same two. they are the same brand of incubator just different models (link 1 is manual link 2 is auto) https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BDFGSMF...
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    Hatching questions

    Hello! I see that there are many of the same questions here but I am finding it very hard to find some specific answers (some questions here will be out there but I have some more) Some info first: 1) Its hatch day, I have 6 eggs that developed and were stopped rolling on day 18 2) Long time...
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