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    Crested Polish Hen Question

    I have a 21-week-old Polish hen with unusually long crest feathers. Every time she drinks water, the crest feathers get wet, dripping water on her head, face and chest. She has a perpetually wet head. With winter approaching, I am concerned that she may get hypothermic. Can I safely trim the...
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    Official BYC Poll: How many chickens do you have?

    We have 59 chickens which include 5 roosters and three newly hatched chicks. After being given two "starter hens" from a friend about 4 years ago, we thought that we would only want 15-20 hens, but once we began selling eggs, the demand was so great that we ordered more chicks last Spring. We...
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    Fox Help...

    We have both red and gray fox here, but my husband saw a gray fox carry one of our hens away, so i imagine that was the predator. We have not had any sign of the fox for about a month. I did some research on how coyote urine is collected. I can't remember on what site I read it, but the coyote...
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    Fox Help...

    I have also had a problem with a fox. We lost three roosters and 9 hens in three different episodes over the summer. Like you, these were chickens with names-birds that we will miss. Most of the chickens were killed while my husband and I were outside, on the property and usually in the middle...
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    Mamma Hen Stepped on Hatching Chick!

    I am pretty sure I will have to euthanize the chick. It looks like a loop of her intestines have prolapsed outside of her body. I tried to push the loop back in, to no avail. I will call Michigan State University in the morning, to get their opinion. Poor chick.
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    Mamma Hen Stepped on Hatching Chick!

    Thanks, I was hoping that it was the yolk. I also think the chick has some sort of prolapsed vent, but am hoping that will retract. The chick is moving better now. Last night, I was *sure* it had a broken pelvis.
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    Mamma Hen Stepped on Hatching Chick!

    The chick survived overnight, but definitely has something hanging out of its vent. It is able to walk somewhat and i am still feeding it dilute sugar water. I will offer it Start-N-Grow today. If it lives until tomorrow, i can call the poultry lab at Michigan State University to get a better...
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    Mamma Hen Stepped on Hatching Chick!

    I moved the chick and the other unhatched eggs into an incubator about 90 minutes after the hen stepped on the chick. The chick is not walking, but I have always let the hen take care of the chicks, so I don't know if not walking 6-8 hours after hatching is normal. One other egg has hatched...
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    Mamma Hen Stepped on Hatching Chick!

    Help! I have 5 fertile eggs/chicks, in various stages of hatching right now. The mamma hen stepped on one of the chicks and extruded a yellowish-red mass from the chick's vent. I moved the hen, as she didn't seem to understand that her chicks were hatching-she was walking all over them. The...
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    Fox got my hens.........question...........

    I can't shoot something that I have never seen. I am sure a fox is getting our chickens, but I have never seen a fox in the 5 years that we have had the birds. We are losing the chickens in the middle of the day, while we are at home. Can I flush it out (from where ever it is) with some sort of...
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    Fox got my hens.........question...........

    ...lab and they said I was describing the work of a fox, but I never saw a predator-just missing birds and a lot of feathers. I was shocked that *anything* was able to take our large, fierce rooster, but he was the first bird that we lost. I let our birds out to roam in the morning and am fairly...
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    Why so against hens going broody?

    Also, a broody hen sits in a hot barn all day, not eating or drinking. I have a broody bantam that I have to physically remove from the nesting box every time I am in the barn.
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    Chicken hatching babies, when to seperate from rest of the coop?

    I usually move broody hen and eggs into a large cage that I built at about 18-19 days, making sure to keep the eggs in the orientation that I find them. That has worked well for us.
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    Adoptive Mother?

    Wow. Good to know. Thanks~
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    Adoptive Mother?

    We have two five-week-old chicks that were hatched by a 1-year-old RIR. When the chicks were about 4 weeks old, the RIR lost interest in them and is back to moving with the rest of the flock. The chicks started following a 3-year-old Ohio Buckeye hen who has never been broody and is generally a...
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    Mareks Vaccination Poll

    Quote: No- if the Barnevelder is affected with symptoms -- it is, I believe, too late. Every instruction on Marek's is that it should be used on day-old chicks. But I believe, it can still/and should be utilized in older chicks. As for whether a year old hen would benefit. Theorectically, I...
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    Mareks Vaccination Poll

    Sorry, I didn't mean to spread misinformation. I made several, several phone call to vets, the local agricultural university, vet supply sources and hatcheries when I lost a rooster to Marek's. The information I got from all of them was that one could purchase several types of vaccination...
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    Mareks Vaccination Poll

    One cannot purchase the vaccination for Marek's disease-it is stored in liquid nitrogen and is supplied in a 1000-dose container. Marek's vaccinations can only be given at a hatchery. I lost an 18-week-old rooster to Marek's disease once. The rooster was given to me when he was a chick and I had...
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    Moving Eggs From Incubator to Broody Hen

    I hadn't considered that. Thanks for the idea!
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    Moving Eggs From Incubator to Broody Hen

    Has anyone ever started incubating eggs in an incubator and then moved them to a broody hen? If so, at what point should the eggs be moved to the hen? I have two hens who are often broody and have hatched chicks before but I think it would be better for the health of the hen to not sit on a nest...
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