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    Best Meat Breeds

    Thank you for the advice! It would just be me and my husband processing them and we would probably make a day/weekend out of it just to get it all done at once. I appreciate the advice on allowing CX to forage. Our current flock free ranges all night and we just lock them in at night, so our...
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    Best Meat Breeds

    Hello! We're going into our second year with chickens, and we are wanting to try meat birds. We have done some research on processing and care, but we were hoping to see what breeds people prefer, and why you would choose a certain breed over another. How many would you suggest getting for our...
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    Sick chick. Is there hope?

    Thanks for the input! We have them mostly for eggs/food, but we don’t think we’d eat this one since it’s sick and we don’t know exactly what the issue is. Some else have suggestions for things to try before giving up?
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    Sick chick. Is there hope?

    Hi all! We got chicks from Murray McMurray that were born roughly May 1. That makes them about 9 weeks old. We noticed about 3 weeks ago that one of our cockerels was laying down a lot, and would stumble when it walked. We had had this issue with another chick a few weeks before, and were told...
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    We have a broody!!!

    Haha I know! I took it out to see if it had any signs of hatch yet (I’m not very patient :lol:) and saw that so I snapped a quick picture before I put it back under momma! I attached a picture of Uno (baby chick) when we went to check and found it hatched! I also added one of momma with Uno...
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    We have a broody!!!

    I went to check on the egg this morning, and this is what I found! It’s chirping a lot and kind of stick it’s beak out sometimes! We’re so excited!
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    Sick weak chick

    This is the corid we got. What is the mixing ratio?
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    Sick weak chick

    We haven’t gotten Corid yet (it slipped our mind while we were in town) but this dude is a fighter. He’s still eating and drinking plenty on his own, it’s just his legs that are causing issues. He gets around well enough to move about the brooder, it’s just not graceful. We’ll try to get some...
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    Sick weak chick

    I can call and ask! I thought it would be a good idea to prevent heartbreak later on since it was only 20 cents per bird.
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    Sick weak chick

    We can, but the chicks we got from McMurray we had vaccinated for coccidiosis. Would that interfere with the vaccination?
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    Sick weak chick

    We just lost a different chick. This one seemed very different though. When I found it this morning it was barely alive and had labored breathing. We started getting stuff around to cull because it was obviously not going to make it. It passed before we got the stuff around. The Mille fleur...
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    Sick weak chick

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    Sick weak chick

    The other chicks are definitely kind of trampling him. He seems to kind of be their favorite, I think because he’s bigger they go to him as kind of like their mom. They try to get under his wings to sleep sometimes. Our heat lamp is on one side of the brooder and it’s pretty toasty over there...
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    Sick weak chick

    I figured we will offer both types of water starting tomorrow. We just wanted to get extra nutrients into the ones that were shipped to help with trauma.
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    Sick weak chick

    No pasty butt, they only have electrolyte water, and there are 25 chicks in the brooder, but there is more than enough room for all of them.
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