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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    Thanks! Yes this hen is still sitting now. Its a little over 3 weeks now. It was less than a week when I gave her the chick. Now I know :( she still just wanted to sit. Lucky Lucy the chick is doing well now. She almost died and was stressed out for a week after (had pasty butt), but she is all...
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    She did make it :) 3 weeks old now and doing well with the crew!
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    I think the chick will make it :)!!! I named her Lucy, maybe she should be lucky Lucy! I thought she was done for. She is eating, drinking, and walking around now. I warmed her several times eith the hair dryer and gave her vitamin water 3x too. She also warmed up under the brooder plate and it...
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    Ah I sadly got my answer. I checked on the chick 30 mins before and then went back out to check again and she threw it out if the coop! It was on the ground... looked dead. I'm trying to revive it now. :( I used a hair dryer on low and warm and cupped it in my hands trying to warm it. Gave it...
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    I picked up the chick and she seemed fine not aggressive at all, just a little peck at my hand when I took it.
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    I need advice. I successfully put the chick in with her. I can only place one, my kids want to raise one each… So the hen has the chick under her snd seems like she wants it there. What Im worried about is the hen us still sitting and does get up to shoe the chick food and water. I threw dome...
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    Hmmm I guess I could give her 2. I hope they do ok. I live in on the coast in RI and its still fairly cold here right now. She is young and hasn’t raised any before and I don’t have a camera to watch inside the coop. We want to raise some in the house in a Brooder box too. My kids love raising...
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    Thank you! Can I slip the chicks in at night and remove the eggs in the am? Or should I try to grab the egg at night? I feel like I will wake her if I try to take the egg at night.
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    Slipping a chick into a coop

    I have questions and need answers from egg-perts 😆 about slipping a baby chick into a coop. This is Boo. (9 months old) She went broody yesterday. I have no rooster. She went broody before and I stopped her by locking her out of the coop for a whole day. Im expecting a small order of chicks in...
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    Rye neck, Marek’s, other?

    Thank you! I want to move the roost a foot lower :( Im almost positive my big roo fell off. I miss him alot
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    Rye neck, Marek’s, other?

    Update: my last 2 hens are doing good I switched their feed to purina flockraiser. Going to try to find some Purina hen crumbles. I think my rooster (Silkie) died of a head injury. I put it all together finally today. I think he fell off the roosting perch I placed in the coop about 2ft high and...
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    Where or how do I test my dead chicken for Marek’s? I live in Rhode Island

    Thank you! This is helpful as one more of my chickens is sick now. Still eating and drinking but paralyzed legs. The other that died… looked woozy n was shaking his head oddly, his legs were not paralyzed but he couldn’t stand well and died fast. He was sick one day and gone the next :( I loved...
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    Where or how do I test my dead chicken for Marek’s? I live in Rhode Island

    Thank you!
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    Where or how do I test my dead chicken for Marek’s? I live in Rhode Island

    Is there a mail in test? I can’t find an animal test lab near me. Is there one?
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    Rye neck, Marek’s, other?

    I switched to the layer feed but have purina flock raiser being delivered tomorrow. This morning I found my rooster laying down and not well just like my sick hen. She hasn’t improved. I give her vitamins, extra vitamin E, the new food and water daily. She is eating but her legs have not...
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