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  1. mandyp

    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    OK, now I need help. I have an 8 month old Black Copper Marans roo. Tonight when my son went to gather eggs he came back & told me one of the birds was sick. I went out & found my roo on the floor of the coop, with his head pulled backwards onto his back & he was twisting it back and forth. None...
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    Strange egg??

    Could be that the brown eggs are just from the White Rock. And the white one could be the Leghorn's first. My hens will go & set on an egg they didn't lay. maybe you just saw her setting on it & it wasn't her egg.
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    Crossed beak

    I feed them all in deep wide dishes, so she gets plenty. She's fat enough. And she eats from my hand, too. I hope I don't end up having to cull her.
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    Strange egg??

    Rocks have real nice personalities. I love mine. Very sweet birds.
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    Strange egg??

    Look at your white hens earlobes compared to the hatchery pic you posted. Your hen has red lobes.
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    Crossed beak

    I let one of my chickens set a clutch of guinea eggs this summer. 3 hatched, & are doing well in my coop. One of them has a crossed beak. It's growing longer & I'm afraid it's going to interfere with her eating. She can't peck food off the ground, she only scoops it out of a bowl. Can it be cut...
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    My dad wants to know if... *HELP PLEASE*

    You can buy Adams spray at the vet's office for about 10.00 a bottle. But i've never seen it used on chickens.
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    Strange egg??

    That white hen looks exactly like my white rock. What are those 2 in the picture behind her? Oh, now I see. The brown leghorn pic is posted twice. I'd swear that white hen is a rock. She doesn't have white earlobes like leghorns are supposed to have.
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Mine have been laying for a few months, except my Cuckoo Marans. Here is her first egg, that we got a couple of weeks ago, alongside the others. [/img]
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    Tilted head

    Well it's eating like a pig, & drinking on it's own too. It's head is still tilted, but it seems to be doing fine. I have it in a rubbermaid bin with a D'Uccle chick that is too small to go in general population & a Houdan who had a rough time hatching. We're calling them the Three Stooges...
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    Tilted head

    I have a silver laced Polish that hatched yesterday. It took him a really long time to get out, over 24 hours. He has a bit of spraddle leg which he seems to be getting over by himself. He's walking bettter everytime I see him. But his head is tilted to the right. I don't think he can eat or...
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    Here's my brooder. It's outside, so Hubby made slide in doors to close the front, & a top with a lid, that has chicken wire underneath. I love it.
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    taking chicks from moms to do or not to do?

    I got to see the meanest, most evil hen in Alabama turn into a clucking, baby lovin fool. She has never laid an egg of her own as long as I've had her. But she was always beating up the others trying to take theirs. And would have gladly pecked my eyes out given a chance. So I gave her one to...
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    My Maran's are hatching

    I hope so too. This is actually a staggered hatch. I've got Houdans, Polish, & D'Uccle's in there that are due to start hatching on Saturday. I didn't ave a good hatch rate with these Marans. Out of 34 eggs, 22 BCM, & 12 Cuckoo's,only 9 made it to lockdown, & it looks like the 5 I have & the 1...
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    My Maran's are hatching

    They started hatching last night. So far I have three Black Copper Maran's & two Cuckoo Marans'. One more Cuckoo has pipped & is chirping it's head off.
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    Introducing our chicks to our adult chickens

    I have one black sex link hen that LOVES babies. No matter what. She is absolute evil when it comes to people but if you show her a chick, she started crooning & clucking away. I keep her separate from the rest, but in an ajoining coop where they can all see each other. I add the babies to her...
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    shipped eggs have arrived. which end up?

    They should be small end down, and for at least 12 hours, to allow the air cell to get back to the correct position. And if you are using an egg turner, they should go in small end down also.
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    Hens with diarrhea

    Nice poo pics! It has been horribly hot & they have been drinking more, so that's probably it. At least thats what the poo site said. I was worried that they were coming down with something. They were 4H chickens, so the girl that raised them vaccinated & dewormed them when they were younger...
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    Hens with diarrhea

    I was out in my coop today & I noticed that at least 3 of my 9 hens have projectile watery diarrhea. I have had them for about 7 months, and they were young pullets when I got them. I have never dewormed them, or have had to treat them for anything. They eat layer pellts, seven grain scratch, &...
  20. mandyp

    Little Giant Incubator...Digital Thermostat

    Right now mine is running smooth as glass. I have a digital Hygrometer in there & also my husband has a small remote thermometer/humidity thingy that has a sensor that you place outside & then it tells you the temp/humidity on a little reader inside the house. I put the sensor in the bator &...
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