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    Autopsy on chicken....looks like lots of egg white

    She was 2 years old, noticed her symptoms last night. She was dead when I checked on her this morning. Brought her in, soaked her in water twice, she never did lay. The other hens picked on her from day 1. It looks like she was full of egg whites and no eggs.
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    Help!!! Should I assist this chick?

    This isn’t the best advice but I just grab the egg and run to the trash can. I will take my fingernail and slowly chip away. Usually if they’ve pipped and got stuck mid unzipping or just make a big hole, and it’s been at least 18 hours, I assume all blood is absorbed and go for it. I don’t do...
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    Anybody with experience shipping week old-2 week old chicks?

    Ive shipped day olds dozens of times. I have seen people online claiming to have shipped week-2 week old chicks. Is this possible? I ask because I’m counting eggs. Let’s say to fulfill an order for 7...but only 5 hatch...yet I have several 4 day old chicks that would be around a week old by...
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    USPS sent my hatching eggs to Alaska

    Let me just say....I ordered many batches of eggs during December. Everything was perfect!!! Until Christmas. The day after Christmas I had some shipped to me, and I guess someone was disgruntled working the holiday and played kickball with the box. It was awful. Or so I thought. USPS...
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    USPS sent my hatching eggs to Alaska

    Ameraucanas
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    USPS sent my hatching eggs to Alaska

    These eggs were not cheap. I had been waiting to order them for a year. First time I ordered them, they arrived beat all to heck...holes in box, shavings falling out, crushed, etc. The seller packaged them great...but it would’ve taken an iron shell to withstand the abuse by USPS. They...
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    Shipping embargo?

    i didn’t know where else to post this. I went to ship chicks this morning, and the USPS lady said she had to check her list to make sure I could ship to a certain state. She said Iowa has an embargo and isn’t accepting shipments (I don’t know if this is specific to live poultry or applies to...
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    Best method for shipping?

    How in the world do hatcheries offer $20 shipping? Would you say it’s built in, or do they get volume discounts?
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    Best method for shipping?

    Out of curiosity...I got a shipment from cackle last year as 3 day priority. Yet every other box of chicks has been express 2 day. I wonder why?? And how? This is about what I figured. I did find out that driving to the nearest “big town” to send them out takes a day off of most deliveries...
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    Best method for shipping?

    We need to ship chicks, but every quote I can find online through USPS is in the $40-50 range for express 1-2 day shipping. That seems rather high. Is there a way to still offer express 1-2 day for less or do most breeders go with 3 day priority? It’s way less expensive but I was under the...
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    Chick with hard, distended abdomen

    We ended up culling the poor little fella...but I wanted to come here and ask. I can’t seem to find anything along the lines of this. Everything I research deals with adult chickens or Ascites. I don’t think this was ascites because it was from day 1, and it didn’t ever feel like a water...
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    No turning 1st through 7th day?

    Yes, please come back and update us! We don’t know what we did right this time lol...I began to wonder if the not turning for more than a day was causing them to stick to their internal membrane/not absorb yolk? Or possibly the network of veining didn’t fully extend to the bottom of the shell...
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    No turning 1st through 7th day?

    I’ve been troubleshooting shipped eggs for the past 3 months. My best hatch happened 2 nights ago. With the first 8 or 9 batches, I let eggs rest 12 hours. With this last one, we did 24 hours. The first I allowed to incubate unturned for 5 days (2 hatched out of 12). The others, we didn’t...
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    A miracle chick!!!

    How do you know?? I need to know the secret to sexing Marans. I’ve been questioning these two...pretty sure they’re Roos at 8 weeks. But they don’t have pointy saddle feathers (yet).
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    A miracle chick!!!

    Yes! That’s it’s new name haha
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    A miracle chick!!!

    Hahaha I never realized how pissed off it looked until now poor little feller! Well he ran right in with the 1 and 2 weekers like he was one of them. Last time I check the brooder he was snuggled in with them lol
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    A miracle chick!!!

    Little Miracle!
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    A miracle chick!!!

    We ordered 8 eggs from a new breeder back in January. The were “in transit” per USPS for TWELVE DAYS!!! Went from OH, to NJ, to DC, to NC, and finally to VA. Not to mention during the polar vortex. We knew they’d never make it but tried it anyway. A couple quit within the 7 day period...we...
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    Deformed embryos

    Thank you for that information! I had to google vaulted skull because I’m not familiar. It’s in the first picture I’ve attached if you’re able to see it. It actually looks flat on top and most of the weight was on the neck/bottom portion of the face. And then the one chick with the missing...
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    Deformed embryos

    I know I ask a lot of questions y’all....esp in regard to hatching. Last post it was dirty eggs from the same “reputable” breeder causing yolk sac absorption issues. This most recent hatch, I set eggs from a totally different place. They all had hideous saddle air cells...but all that...
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