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    Anybody Have Any Experience Raising "Preemie" Chicks?!

    Life is like a box of "chocklits".... You never know what your gonna get. That is great news on your chick. It is amazing that late ones can be premature. Good job on the surgery to save it too. It can be very tricky when they get stuck in a dry egg, or they have blood. From my experience...
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    help 2 week polish

    That is very respectful. I have a "Sad Hill" here. That I bury my pets on. I make a cross for my special pets with their name on it. Every time I walk by, I remember my beloved that rest here. I wish I could rest on Sad Hill when my time comes. Spicy
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    Major trouble raising POLISH chicks PLEASE HELP

    Oh no... I'm sorry. They are fine birds, just very delicate. Polish and Sultans are born like Bantams, so tiny that life is precarious at best. I think it was something else that it died from. I would have avoided spraying its head with anything, but that is my choice. Sometimes chicks up...
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    New baby for the OES :) need advice

    That is a preemie. 100 degrees or until panting then reduce heat by moving further from bulb. Keep her very warm and stimulate her by holding her, moving her and talking to her. Did she open her eyes?. She might make it if you give her attention. I get them out of the shell and dry if they...
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    help 2 week polish

    Oh no...... I'm sorry. I lost 2 last night myself. For no apparent reason. I just found them dead. But I hatched 5 or 6 all day. With 130 chicks in 4 brooders currently, I change water constantly, and I look often for pasty butt, washing their butt, and I look for dead ones. Mine are on ACV...
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    help 2 week polish

    Start the ACV in the water for the suspected poop issue. Two weeks is about the time they get Cocci if they are going to get it. A lot of cheeping means something is wrong. Maybe too cold in the brooder? In those pictures I dont see a bright warm light? How are you heating the brooder...
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    Tylan 50

    I just had to do that. One teaspoon in a gallon of water, mix well. However it seems the life of the mix has a limited time of effectiveness. So it might be better to mix a quarter teaspoon into a quart. It has like an 8 hour time of effective use once mixed. Using a large eyedropper, I...
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    New to raising chicks? Learn from my heartbreaking mistake.

    I'm sorry that happened. Once I killed my old dog by giving him a slice of pizza like I always did on Friday night. He was getting old and had kidney and liver problems and loosing weight, and he didn't have long to live. But he loved his slice each Friday. His body couldn't handle the...
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    HELP!!! First time with chicks! Something is wrong

    Also, place the food and water close to the light so they dont have to go far to bump into them. Across the brooder is too far away. Spicy
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    post and beam corral fencing

    Rocky soil is difficult to put posts in. I have had to rent a jack hammer to dig holes for wooden posts before. On my ranch, we use "T" posts, I just use a Rotohammer and a 1 and an eigth inch bit, mark the hole locations using a string stretched straight and spray paint a small spot every...
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    4 day old chick - possible vent prolapse? maybe pasty butt? not sure....

    I think sometimes their butt dosnt work right. Many are clean from the start, others get pasted shut butts. You know the less you have to touch their butt the better. They are so delicate that infection or soreness can happen just from cleaning their butt. And they still have that Umbilical...
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    Major trouble raising POLISH chicks PLEASE HELP

    Hello again, I was curious about the differences( if any), that anyone knows that can be found between American varieties of Polish, French or Turkish birds we see in USA, and their relatives, the European birds of the same type. A little off topic, but it would be interesting to know about if...
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    Cold Brooding?

    I would be careful, and keep them plenty warm at first. Chicks shut down and freeze in the cold. (Less than 90 degrees). They will chirp loud. Hard to ignore their plight. Cold. Maybe they can handle dropping to 80 degrees for week 2 but that is about as fast as a baby can survive the cold...
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    Chick Water

    I dip their beaks when they fluff up and go into the brooder. Water should always be in shallow pans. I once saw a baby drowned in a 1/2 inch pan of water. Spicy
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    Anybody Have Any Experience Raising "Preemie" Chicks?!

    You asked about hatching preemies. When they come out of the egg they might die if premature. Just so you know, we always put our newborn chicks in a little padded box under the edge of the light and cover that little box with a hardware cloth screen to keep the older ones from jumping on...
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