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    Chick with cloudy eye

    I've had 2 lavender chicks hatch with similar eyes, how did your one turn out? My chicks aren't blind and appear happy and normal in all other ways! Thanks
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    Lavender Silkies - Newbee questions, I have to start from scratch as in New Zealand!

    Anyone got any ideas?
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    Lavender Silkies - Newbee questions, I have to start from scratch as in New Zealand!

    Hi all, In New Zealand we can't import chooks for biosecurity reasons. If we want something we don't have, we have to make it! I already have a quite successful Paint Silkie project going (yay!) but would like to start working on Lavender Silkies... Where to start? Black Silkie roo over...
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    Paint Silkie Query

    Hi I'm in New Zealand (we can't import eggs so have to make up new and interesting things!) I have managed to breed some birds that express the paint colouring and are half silkie and have man silkie traits (but not the silkie feathering yet). I am wanting to breed these girls back to a silkie...
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    Lacing genetics... How would I go about it?

    Wondering how I would go about introducing lacing into orpingtons. I live in New Zealand and as far as I know we don't have laced orpingtons. There might be a few breeders working on it but nothing available for sale (we have a closed gene pool, not birds or eggs can be imported into the...
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    Comment by 'eksterhuis' in article 'Barnevelders 4'

    Thanks :) I have my first lot of barnevelder eggs in the incubator, this will be great for working out who is who! I have one dozen double laced and one dozen blue laced in there :)
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    What can I do to help my poor chickens? Not responding to antibiotics sneezing, weight loss...

    I have 2 Japanese bantams which are sneezing and losing weight rapidly, I have them inside under a heat lamp and am trying them on various foods. They seem to like 'egg and biscuit' which I have for my canary, which seems higher in protein and softer to eat. They seem to take a couple of bites...
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    Silver Laced Polish... How???

    Oh yeah sorry, I should have mentioned, we do have Polish (white and black/blue with white crest mainly) Just wondering what crossings would work to keep the lacing...
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    Silver Laced Polish... How???

    Hello, I live in New Zealand and we can't import new poultry, if we want something, we have to make it. There are no Silver Laced Polish here... How would one go about making this happen? We have Silver Laced Wyandottes and Silver Sebrights... These would be Polish Bantams... Any ideas?
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    I'm beginning to think I need to make my 1-18 humidity a little higher. Just hoping someone will see the pictures and know exactly what's up! I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand (where they had a the big earthquake a couple of years back) 've got into chooks in a big way. We only have very...
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    Thanks :) Will see if people can tell me if it's too much or not enough!
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    I'm 99% sure it's something to do with humidity, but not sure if it's too much or too little in the first 18 days or if it's lockdown that's the issue!
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    The three eggs show come from 3 different breeders (one is mine, and the other two were posted from two different people) I have had these late deaths with every hatch I have ever done, from 20+ different breeders... I'm 'collecting' stock for breeding next year!
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    Yeah I candled and they were obviously still (I float tested too to be sure) but you could see that there wasn't a dark line around the edge and that the chick had sort of 'peeled away' from the shell, if you know what I mean?? They don't seem particularly sticky, the watery stuff is very watery...
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    I move eggs to hatch every week as I do not hatch in the Borotto, that way I can hatch about 15-20 chicks most weeks rather than having a huge hatch every 3 weeks. Means I can candle and remove dud eggs and always run the Borotto full. The thermometer is correct and I have 2 different...
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    I have a Borotto 49 (Italian made). I have a Brindsea themometer that is accurate to 0.1 degrees which I use to double check everything. The incubator has a few hot/cool patched but runs between 37.2-37.9 degrees with most of it at 37.7 (all celcius) Humidity is 55%. At lockdown I transfer eggs...
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    Thank you :) My initial thoughts are that the humidity is too high for the first 18 days but when I reduced it (as I tried that for last weeks hatch) only 1 out of 30 hatched they all died much earlier on... weird!
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    Eggtopsy... Help understanding what's going wrong! Yes there are photos and they're pretty clear and

    Hello, I am new to opening up my non hatchers... I always see to get about 1/3 die after lockdown. I have decided to investigate. So these are 3 that are from my latest hatch, a belgian, a faverolles and a polish... all from different, some 2 are shipped eggs and one is from my breeders. It...
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    Incubation issues... late deaths, inner membrane ripped but egg not pipped.

    I have been having medium success hatching at 37.7 degrees Celsius at about 55% humidity, but having late deaths in the hatcher (37degrees 65-75% humidity) I guess getting 4-6 deaths per 30 eggs during lock down. The later ones that hatch have been slightly shrink wrapped and some deaths without...
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    How much feed?

    Anyone? Any help would be appreciated!
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