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    Best Meat Breeds

    Thank you for the advice! It would just be me and my husband processing them and we would probably make a day/weekend out of it just to get it all done at once. I appreciate the advice on allowing CX to forage. Our current flock free ranges all night and we just lock them in at night, so our...
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    Best Meat Breeds

    Hello! We're going into our second year with chickens, and we are wanting to try meat birds. We have done some research on processing and care, but we were hoping to see what breeds people prefer, and why you would choose a certain breed over another. How many would you suggest getting for our...
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    Sick chick. Is there hope?

    Thanks for the input! We have them mostly for eggs/food, but we don’t think we’d eat this one since it’s sick and we don’t know exactly what the issue is. Some else have suggestions for things to try before giving up?
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    Sick chick. Is there hope?

    Hi all! We got chicks from Murray McMurray that were born roughly May 1. That makes them about 9 weeks old. We noticed about 3 weeks ago that one of our cockerels was laying down a lot, and would stumble when it walked. We had had this issue with another chick a few weeks before, and were told...
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    We have a broody!!!

    ...what happened, but I put it back with momma. She pecked at it once and wouldn’t let it get fully under her. It is also super warm today (upper 80s*F), so my thought is that maybe they were both warm enough so she didn’t think it needed to be under her. Uno seemed fine and fell asleep. The...
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    We have a broody!!!

    I went to check on the egg this morning, and this is what I found! It’s chirping a lot and kind of stick it’s beak out sometimes! We’re so excited!
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    Sick weak chick

    This is the corid we got. What is the mixing ratio?
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    Sick weak chick

    We haven’t gotten Corid yet (it slipped our mind while we were in town) but this dude is a fighter. He’s still eating and drinking plenty on his own, it’s just his legs that are causing issues. He gets around well enough to move about the brooder, it’s just not graceful. We’ll try to get some...
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    Sick weak chick

    I can call and ask! I thought it would be a good idea to prevent heartbreak later on since it was only 20 cents per bird.
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    Sick weak chick

    We can, but the chicks we got from McMurray we had vaccinated for coccidiosis. Would that interfere with the vaccination?
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    Sick weak chick

    We just lost a different chick. This one seemed very different though. When I found it this morning it was barely alive and had labored breathing. We started getting stuff around to cull because it was obviously not going to make it. It passed before we got the stuff around. The Mille fleur...
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    Sick weak chick

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    Sick weak chick

    ...sometimes. Our heat lamp is on one side of the brooder and it’s pretty toasty over there. We don’t have a thermometer, but I’d guess probably 95-100*. But the other side is room temperature which is about 65-70*. Everyone seems to sleep just about in the middle, with a few exceptions that...
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    Sick weak chick

    I figured we will offer both types of water starting tomorrow. We just wanted to get extra nutrients into the ones that were shipped to help with trauma.
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    Sick weak chick

    No pasty butt, they only have electrolyte water, and there are 25 chicks in the brooder, but there is more than enough room for all of them.
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    Sick weak chick

    We got 4 chicks about two weeks ago from TSC in the bantam bin. One of them was obviously older because it already had a good amount of feathers. I’m not sure exactly how old it is. Everything was going well, and it’s growing much quicker than the other bantams we got (maybe it’s not a bantam?)...
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    We have a broody!!!

    Honestly, I’m not 100% sure what day we’re on. These pictures are of one of the eggs she’s sitting on. I know they aren’t very good pictures, but it’s hard to take a clear picture! It’s the same egg as the top picture I had posted earlier. It’s significantly darker in the majority of the egg and...
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    We have a broody!!!

    Okay! There were a few that may have had super beginning signs of development so we left those, but we’ll candle tonight again and if there aren’t any veins, we’ll take them away! We’re super excited for her!
  19. TheAmundsons

    We have a broody!!!

    Update! We decided to candle the eggs tonight to see which eggs are fertile and developing, and then marked them. Of the 8 she is sitting on (2 fake eggs), 2 of them have veins! The pictures aren’t super great but you can definitely see the veins if you look closely! We aren’t sure when each of...
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    Poop Board Design

    @Rachel Taylor where do you get those signs?! I would love to use those as most of our materials are all repurposed items!
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