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    Hmong Chickens in Canada

    Thank you, I’m happy to share! I’m in BC and had eggs shipped to me from Chicks by the Lake in Quebec Chicks By The Lake Hmong And also from BreezyBird in Manitoba Breezybird 🥰
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    Hmong Chickens in Canada

    Hello everyone! I'm new to this breed but really loving them. So far I've managed to acquire two separate lines via shipped eggs and have raised them to the point where I'm getting chicks now. There's not alot of info online that I can find about them, and I don't think many breeders of them...
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    12-week-old Hmong chicken - pullet or cockerel?

    Did you make a determination? I find them tricky to sex as well but that looked like a pullet to me.
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    ISO Silver Hmong pullet or hen.

    She is gorgeous!! I have some like her but I am in Canada so I don't think I'll be of much help I'm afraid. https://www.westcoastfarm.ca/purchase
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    Ugh. Yes I’ve heard of that. I hadn’t dewormed and when I do, I toss the eggs for a few weeks after. The chicks were hatched by me, from my own flocks. About six different breeds, all chicks randomly affected. No rhyme or reason to whom survived (except naturally many sexed cockerel chicks...
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    Yes! Onto brighter things... here is our invaluable pack who helps caretake our farm.
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    Wow! That’s horrible. I had been giving them small amounts of yogurt recently. I’m thinking neurotoxin now. Not so much from the yogurt but from the water leaking into the chick starter, creating some mold. Who knows, maybe the yogurt somehow contributed.
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    Thank you
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    No, it was done by a reputable company over a year ago. Been raising chicks in there ever since without a problem. Putting the feed under the nipple waterers was a new thing. I didn’t realize the moldy feed that was being created by the drips.
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    Let’s hope this is what it was. Lesson learned the hard (and a very horrible) way I’ll never again put the feed under the nipple waterers where water can end up dribbling down and creating this moldy ick I found when I cleaned up. If this post saves someone else the misery I went through...
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    If only I had thought of this sooner... I cleaned everything from top to bottom. Waterers have all been bleached. Old feed dish dumped onto manure pile & scrubbed clean now. I wouldn’t be able to find anything to test now
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    We only have teeny, shy, elusive and harmless garter snakes here. Currently they are still hibernating & they don’t confront anything but insects. I tore the place apart, looking for anything. Not a drop of blood. Not a single rat turd. Found a couple more dead chicks wedged behind things. I...
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    Thank you, I will try a dehumidifier. A strange toxic event sounds most likely to me at this point.
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    That’s the most logical explanation I’ve heard so far.
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    Mass Chick Death- WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED???

    There’s no way any person or kids got in here. I’ve been home all the time. We have a fenced, gated property with five intimidating farm dogs and a warning sign on the gate- NOBODY comes in uninvited. It’s been balmy warm here lately too. Not the kind of weather that chicks freeze to death in...
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