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    Help... sick peafowl

    Sick Peafowl about 5 months old. Noticed last night it was away from the rest of the flock. Walking slowly, hunched up and its feathers puffed up. Started the babies on Tylan 1 1/ 4 tsp per 6 gallons of water. We had 2 sick babies earlier this month, first one we noticed on a Fri night, and...
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    Shrinkwrapping..is it too late?

    Eggs started hatching yesterday, Things were looking good, other than one that piped at the wrong end. Had 10 hatched out of 28 hatch. Then it seemed all the eggs started shrink wrapping. We have the humidity around 65%, been diligent since last time we seemed to have drowned most of the...
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    First Egg Of The Season - - Anyone Else Get One?

    We also got our first ever peafowl egg tonight. We have two 2 y/o IB peahens and a 2 y/o IB peacock. I thought it was to late in the season down here in GA so I thought we would have to wait until next year. So excited
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    First hatch going south and sideways at same time

    hope all turns out well. i have been tempted to move some of the eggs from the incubator to under a broody hen. what breeds did you set?
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    WHATS IN YOUR INCUBATOR THIS WEEK

    we have 26 black copper marans, two EE's and a brahma mix. lockdown is tomorrow for us.
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    Candeling help

    In a electric fry pan? who knew. We have the incubator in the spare bathroom and shut the door and turn off the light before candling. I started with the two green eggs first and that is how I figured out where to put the light to see the air sack. I have read, and read and read not to...
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    Candeling help

    We have just started our second round of incubating. First round we had 3 out of a dozen hatch, one is tiny and not growing like the others but is still hanging in there. We are again trying Black Copper Maran eggs, and was given 2 green eggs as extra bonus. woot woot and I pick one of our...
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    not growing

    cant get the photo to upload
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    not growing

    we hatched 3 chicks last week, 2 on wednesday and one friday. the friday baby was having a hard time so i helped bt removing a little of the shell near where it piped. a few hours it had worked its way out of the shell. took from friday to monday before it could walk upright. then we...
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    Any ideas of what went wrong?

    We set a dozen eggs to hatch on Feburary 28. Wednesday had 2 chicks hatch Another One piped and then nothing Friday the 4th one pipped and we waited but nothing. After 12 hours we helped by making sure the membrane was moist and peeled some of the shell. today we opened the incubator...
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    When to start worrying

    Set a dozen eggs on February 28th about 9:30 at night. Temp stayed between 99 and 102 degrees thoughout incubation. Was thinking 21 full days would be the 21st or 22nd. Took out turner on the 19th, added water and closed up the incubator. Yesterday, the 20th we had a chick hatch about...
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    Newbie, set eggs 2/28/13

    Got it into my head that the only way I could find some Black Copper Maran chicks was to get the eggs and try our first incubation. Found a guy on Craiglist about 20 miles from home and waited for 10 days for him to get a dozen eggs collected. Got home late Thursday night on the 28th and we...
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    week old chick not walking

    I received a order of buff braham chicks last wednesday, and another order of dark braham chicks on friday. The wednesday chicks were happy and active, the friday chicks are spastic. A couple of the friday chicks peck at the feet, wing feathers and heads of all the others, they all are so...
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    Heat wave and how hot is too hot

    We have had goats for just over two years, so we are still learning. Our goats have been out in the pasture with the horses. They have lots of trees for water and a natural spring for drinking and cooling off. We also have a pole barn with a couple of fans to help. We brought the nannies up...
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    Heat wave and how hot is too hot

    Check on them last night, the three week olds were in the coop, piled under the red light... so I left it on for the night and this morning turned it off. Checked the water and opened the chick door so they can get into the run where the fan is on. This weeks arrivals. The far end of the...
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    Heat wave and how hot is too hot

    This weekend we are expect to reach up to 106.... yikes I have three week olds outside in a coop and have been keeping the red light on along with letting them roam in the run with a fan during the day. Just got back from scooting them into the coop and am concerned about them getting too...
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    Anybody Else Waiitng [Im]patiently For Chicks?

    Yea, glad you got your babies. I ordered from Cackle back in April, asked for delivery week of June 4th, received all the Light Brahams, and 1/2 Buff Brahams. Thankfully Cackle put us back into rotation for the rest of our shippment for this week. Got notified they were shipped Monday night...
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    ultimate chicken coop (hope the humans dont mind)

    icky...but strangley hipnotic
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    Introducing chicks to dogs

    I have been debating this question for a while. We have two dogs, the 2 year old Appenzell (not netured) and a 5 year old Chinese Crested PP (netured). The Appenzell, is our happy sweet boy except when someone unfamilar come into the yard. The Crested is very territiorial and dominant. The...
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