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    Peachick acting sick - help?

    Seems as though he found a little "hole" in some fencing that I had on the backside of the pen (that I didn't know was even there!) & likely got stuck for a bit. Vet thought he may have hyperextended his neck. When I tend the birds, they are relatively calm, but when strangers come by they are...
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    Peachick acting sick - help?

    The little guy seems better this morning although it didn't fly up to the roost overnight. Momma peahen sat with him on the floor though. I have a friend of a friend who is a vet who believes after seeing the video clip that he got his head stuck somewhere. I tend to believe that theory too...
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    Peachick acting sick - help?

    My peachick that's about 3 weeks old is acting very strange tonight - it was fine this morning, but this evening it walks around "fine" for a bit, then lays it's head/neck straight out in front of it as it "lays" down. It is shaking its head and tipping forward from time to time also. It's...
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    Help! Hen hatched one chick and left nest

    After doing a water test that night, it appeared there was no movement in the 2 eggs. I opened them yesterday and found fully developed chicks that appeared normal. A bit of a yolk sack yet and no pipping through membrane. I wonder if I would've found her off the nest sooner I maybe could've...
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    Help! Hen hatched one chick and left nest

    I brought them in the house to the incubator & just candled them. 1 wasn't even viable, the other 2 look developed, but no movement. I'll keep them in the bator for the day and do a water test tonight. It amazes me how the hens just know when it's time to leave the nest! Out of my India Blues...
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    Help! Hen hatched one chick and left nest

    Eggs are still warm - do I take them & put them in incubator or will she sit yet??
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    Am I doing the right thing??

    Thanks for the replies. I'm certain it was all the roos causing the problem. The girls have become much more relaxed today finally. They aren't wandering outside a whole lot yet, but they are at least on the floor of the coop and getting a few feet outside. It seems the roo has figured out...
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    Am I doing the right thing??

    I've had chickens/chicks for 8 years...never had an issue like this. I had gotten 18 straight run chicks about 5 months ago. 12 are pullets, 6 roos. They are exploring and digging in the nest boxes, so I know they are getting close to laying. In the last 3 weeks, the pullets have almost...
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    Squirrels stealing quail eggs??

    Thanks...That's what I feared. Got one squirrel in a trap today & ironically my peahen rewarded my efforts with an egg in her nest Going to keep trapping to thin the squirrel herd as much as I can!
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    Squirrels stealing quail eggs??

    I keep some bobwhite quail in with my peacocks in a large "remodelled" corncrib. Monday I surprised a squirrel in the pen who quickly scaled up the inside of the pen about 10', squeezed out and ran away. I've had sporadic bobwhite egg laying...I havent had a pea egg in over a week also. Is that...
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    wry neck

    Reasearching like crazy on "wry neck" as I helped an IB chick hatch last evening...it had rotated to the wide end of the egg, but its head/neck were backwards compared to a normal so it couldn't zip. So because of its position in the egg, he's got quite the crooked neck. I have bird vitamin...
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    Peahens "dropping" eggs - help?

    There's a pretty large area to cover under their roost bars...but may have to resort to adding that cushion. I did get one egg yesterday that she managed to lay while on the ground anyway. Looks like one of them is finally rooting around in their nesting area so hopefully they are figuring it out.
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    Peahens "dropping" eggs - help?

    I have a pair of India Blue peahens who have started off the laying season by laying the first 3 eggs when they are perched on a roost...splat. Last year I had a couple splats, but well over 25 eggs were laid in a nice quiet nesting area. Going to put a fake egg in the nesting area to...
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    The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

    I live in Wisconsin in the path of this ugly snowstorm set to hit over the next 2 days. Warnings of high winds and power outages have me stressing out over my babies set to hatch for Easter...trying something new - quail and pheasants. At last candling, I had 20 that looked good. To have a...
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    Hatch help

    My little project is alive and well this morning. Holding his head up and moving around. Overnight, the other 2 eggs in the hatcher zipped and hatched successfully on their own which was an added bonus to wake up to this morning! :) I honestly believe that if I had not intervened, he would not...
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    Hatch help

    I gently helped him out of his shell about an hour and a half ago...very little blood and a wad of poo in the shell. Put him back in the hatcher to strengthen up. I just checked in on him and he was pasted with dried debris from the shell, so I gave him a warm bath, dried him a bit and now he's...
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    Hatch help

    I've been helping him along throughout the day - little bits at a time, then some warm water on the exposed membrane so he doesn't get shrink-wrapped. He has one foot out - thought he'd propel himself out of the egg, but instead just sits in the egg peeping with a little squirm occassionally...
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    Hatch help

    First year hatching pea eggs in an incubator - have hatched many chicks/chickens prior. My first 3 eggs will reach 28 days this Friday. Yesterday morning, there was one pipped already, so I moved the first 3 eggs out of turner to hatcher incubator. This morning (24 hours later) no progress on...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    If I cross my Americauna rooster with olive egger hen, will resulting offspring potentially lay blue eggs not olive??
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    What is the strangest thing your chickens ate? Mine just ate crawfish Monica and aligator tail

    When cleaning out the crop of a young rooster during butchering, we found two .22 casings and a plastic spray nozzle from a spray paint can. What the ? was he thinking?! My nephew who was helping at the time thought maybe we'd find some loose change or a blank signed check if we looked hard...
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