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    Citron Spangled Hamburgs

    Hey backwoods, any luck with finding Hamburgs?
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    Citron Spangled Hamburg - genetics.

    We have a trio of bantam CSHs and just hatched out 13/13. Successful rooster :) It appears, to me, that we have silvers, golds and citron chicks. I know that the spangling is tricky genetics- a little over my head. And I know that I could have all kinds of hidden genetics from the original...
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    Citron Spangled Hamburgs

    We bought a trio, 6-8 weeks old, off of Rarebreedauctions.com from Jon Burton. Great birds. Our silkie just hatched out 13/13 of the CSH eggs. Pretty awesome!
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    Moving those meaties outside

    So we're here in VT... And it's been warm and dry this spring. We might get some rain this week but otherwise the temps have been +45's at night and into the 80's during the day. We have 25 meaties in the coop brooder pen that are 4 weeks old, they are fairly well feathered. I want them OUT...
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    adding turkeys to my flock?

    Bump... We're about to pick up a pair of year-old Bourbon Reds today. They will eventually be intermingled with our LF chickens- though we will have an area where the chickens can 'escape' to if necessary. My question is whether we should observe any quarantine times? I don't want to toss...
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    Scaly Leg Mites - Need Best / Easiest / Quickest Solution - Scaley

    We have been using Vermont Beast Balm- and it's smothered everything that we weren't able to pick off initially. However, the damage to one of our hen's toes was too much. After the cleaning and blaming, this toe hung (hang nail style) to the side. There appeared to be healthy nail growth and...
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    in my exp. sneezing chicks are not unusual

    We're experiencing a fair bit of sneezing w/our 25 meat birds. While it does cause concern, they are acting normally otherwise. They eat/drink, lounge/race as they should. So I am watching and waiting (w/a little less worrying). Thanks for assuaging my fears.
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    Scaly Leg Mites - Need Best / Easiest / Quickest Solution - Scaley

    She must have lost the end of one toe, and the nail, to the mites before I got her. The foot that she favored had a lot of damage to one toe- almost like something was around the toe cutting off circulation. I was able to soak her feet again (she fell asleep) and remove the remainder of the...
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    Scaly Leg Mites - Need Best / Easiest / Quickest Solution - Scaley

    We adopted a bantam Silver Spangled Hamburg hen last fall. She had a pronounced limp and (what I now know to be) the telltale crusties on her legs. At the time, I wasn't sure what was going on or what to do. This spring I did sort of figure things out and started treating her legs with VetRX. We...
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    Cleaning Incubator

    Just got skunked on a clutch of 16 Hamburg eggs, two different varieties so fertility shouldn't be a concern. Began to wonder if perhaps the incubator wasn't cleaned properly last spring? Hoping the advice in this thread will solve any bacteria issues in the future.
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    Gabbard Farms??

    I ordered a dozen Hamburg eggs before New Years- six blues and six Silver Spangles. The eggs arrived 1/2/13 and into the incubator they went (after they rested for a few hours to stabilize.) I am extremely fastidious about record keeping during incubation- temp, humidity, when I turned. I keep a...
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    Greetings from windy VT

    Hello everyone! New to BYC, however, not unfamiliar. Raised chickens throughout my childhood and now in my adult life. We currently have: 4 buff orps, 3 barred rocks, 3 black australorps, 2 white orps, 2 rhode reds (hen and roo.) We also have a pair of silver spangled Hamburgs (bantam hen...
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