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    LOOK, HELP! New chick won't walk on leg..PICS

    Thanks for replying with your advise so quickly! I don't think it is spraddle leg because the chick basically keeps it tucked up under itself and it can be stretched out in every direction just as his other leg without screaming. It's almost like he does not want to put pressure on the leg...
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    LOOK, HELP! New chick won't walk on leg..PICS

    I pray someone can help me save this chick from being crippled. Last evening, it hatched. This a.m. I noticed it was not walking on its right leg. I looked the situation over. The leg can stretch out just like the other. I gently massaged the leg, the chick did not mind. So as not to...
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    Question about keeping my guineas off my front porch?

    HELP!!! Is it possible to train my guineas to stay off my front porch? They are 9 wks. old and free range but want to perch on the porch where we don't want them. Thanks for anyones advice.
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    Twisted Leg??? 2 wk old chick, Advise Please!!!

    Oh, Bless you girls for trying to help me. I will say that hubby and I made a small "brooder/chicken tractor" where I have had the chick and two other playmates to keep it company. I have only put him out with the others (makes 12 total when they are all together) the past two days. This...
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    Twisted Leg??? 2 wk old chick, Advise Please!!!

    This chick was big when it hatched. Its leg was in a precarious position right from the start. It looked like a splayed leg so my hubby and I banded the legs (as I read from this site). We kept checking the legs every other day and changing the banding. No matter what, we could not get the...
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    HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Chick...Feet turned under, it can't walk!!!!!

    Oh, from the bottom of my heart, Thank You!!!! What a brilliant idea...little paddle feet! Gonna go get a cereal box, right now, and get to work! I, soooooooooooooooooo, appreciate you!!! God Bless you many times over! Hugs, Rhonda
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    HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Chick...Feet turned under, it can't walk!!!!!

    Please, can someone tell me if there is anything I can do to help this chick!!??? Both it's feet are curled under and when it tries to walk it does not flatten it's feet!! Anything I can do?
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    Please Help Me! Hatching Chicks For The First Time And Am Stressed

    Hi! I have to smile. You sound alot like me. I cannot believe someone has not jumped in here to help calm you. I really am not a pro at this. I just had my first hatch finish on 06-30-10 and I had another set up to hatch 07-08-10 and it is still in the midst of hatching. I can tell you a...
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    hatching help needed Please

    Just read your thread....Congrats on the hatch!! I am, right now, the nervous Mama that you were! My eggs are pipping and one has hatched.....I love it and am addicted too!!! How cool it is! Congrats, again! Oh, post a pic, please!!! I just am so obsessed with the whole chicken thing...
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    Candled eggs for last time this morning and was greeted with a peep

    Just want to say congrats on the hatch....Yay!!!! and, I want to go to the ocean tooooo!!! Hope you had fun!!! (I'm jealous!)
  11. funfeatheredfeet

    Should I move new chicks out?

    Thank God for this post!! I've been trying to get someone to help me. I'm new at this and this is my first batch to hatch. At 8:30 pm my 1st egg hatched (wasn't expecting a hatch till Sunday), but, anyway, this little chick that hatched is waddling all over the place and I have 8 other eggs...
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    Did anyone set eggs on June 9th? Wanna hatch with me?

    Where are you chicken friends when I need you most??? Wake up people!!!! I don't know what to do.....this little chick is soooo active! I'm worried about my other eggs being moved around so much. I also don't know if or when I should move him. If more hatch and all the eggs are pipping...
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    Did anyone set eggs on June 9th? Wanna hatch with me?

    We have a hatch!!!!!! A little BO, looks blonde & shiney now that it's starting to dry!! It hatched at 8:30 pm tonight and I wasn't expecting anything to happen till Sunday! 8 more have pipped just can't keep myself from standing there with my nose at the window!!! I have a question...since...
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    HELP!!! New at this!!! 1st Time Hatching & Here They Come!!!!!!!!!

    Oh, THANKS for coming to my rescue. I am trying to relax but can I ask....That newly hatched chick is waddling all over the place...eggs are pipping & it is moving eggs as it moves around....does that hurt the eggs that are pipping??? Aren't those eggs pipping, trying to hatch & at a certain...
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    HELP!!! New at this!!! 1st Time Hatching & Here They Come!!!!!!!!!

    I am soooo egg-cited!!!!!!! I have a new baby chick!!! It pipped & hatched all in 22 min.!!!! I have 8 more that have pipped in the since 8:30 and I am sooo shakey, excited!!!! I will not get any sleep tonight!! I know I have to let them dry in the incubator, I have a brooder all ready for...
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    RIR singing the egg song, do yours?

    I have 10 BR hens, a BR Roo & a BO Roo that love to sing the egg song! I am fairly new to all this chicken biz and was really shocked to hear the Roos singing even louder than the hens. It is awesome, my whole back acre sounds like a major choir practice and they can carry on for quite a...
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    Hen laying soft-shelled eggs

    I will try that. Thanks for the tip!!
  18. funfeatheredfeet

    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    8 outta 10 BR's +1 soft skinned one
  19. funfeatheredfeet

    My very first egg today!

    Ha! My smilies were supposed to be happy excited ones.....somehow they glitched.....ignore them (above) and this ones for you: Congrats!!!!!
  20. funfeatheredfeet

    My very first egg today!

    :clapHey!! Congrats on your first egg!! I have some young RIR's that aren't of age to lay yet, but, when they do I will celebrate! They are my first chicks I bought myself. All my others that are laying were given to me so these six feel like my kids....hahah. I can imagine your excitement!!
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