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    Dill...OK for chickens and ducks?

    I have a ton left over afteright cannin. OK to give to them?
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    Another possible Marek's infection.

    10 months ago we had a hen that developed what we were pretty sure was Marek's. I posted the pictures back then. She had the skin lesions/postules and looked horrible! Fast forward to a couple of days ago. My son (he's 14) brought in a hen that is at least 5 years old. Our last EE hen. One...
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    Marek's pretty much confirmed. Questions about the eggs etc.

    SO, we had hen die from Marek's. Now the questions: Do we have to cull the rest of the flock? Can we use the eggs the rest of the flock is laying? From what I've been reading the Marek's virus is everywhere and if your chickens aren't vaccinated then it's quite possible they will...
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    Please look at these pictures and help us.

    One of my son's chickens died a few days ago. This is what he found when he was taking her out of the coop. We have no idea what this is and we need the experts here to diagnose it. The bumps are the size of peas.
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    What in the heck is this?

    My son found a dead chicken in the coop a couple of days ago. The bumps that you see where the feathers should have been were the size of peas. Can you tell me if this looks familiar to any of you? We don't use antibiotics in our coop and we're really hoping this isn't anything contagious...
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    Help me identify this bird!

    Fun contest in our local paper. I tried all the WI bird identification sites I could find but no luck. Anybody know what this is?
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    Raising goats?

    So my son is doing a new 4H project. He's done pigs (and will continue to do them), geese, rabbits and of course the chickens which he still does. He's earned enough money from selling the chicks and eggs to buy a couple of angora goats. I'm not having any luck finding a great forum like at...
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    CORID. Somebody help me covert this.

    So I bought a 10 oz pkg of corid powder. It makes 125 gallons. 4oz makes 50 gallons. I need to make it 1 gallon at a time. How much powder do I need, in teaspoon measure? I can't believe I can't convert this. I'm an accountant for heaven's sake. I think my brain is fried today.
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    OMG we have a pip!

    Last night ds snuck in and checked and one of the eggs was pipping. Mama was making a real racket so we knew something was up. This is amazing considering what she has been thru. After the wind blew her house around and knocked around her eggs we thought sure this was a bust but she still has...
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    Nest disaster!

    So this hen has been sitting on her nest for 3+ weeks. Last week 3 tornados touched down 2 miles from here. Twice we've had tornado warnings and winds of 60+mph. All the time she has sat on her next in a calf hutch just fine. 2 nights ago we had gusty winds at night. Must have been just the...
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    Incubator not stinky?

    I've done 4 or 5 hatches over the last couple of years. Each time the bater becomes stinky after a week or two. Not overly stinky but it smells. This time I have 39 eggs in it and it smells just fine. No odor at all. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I went on lockdown this morning so...
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    Another hatching idea...

    This just occured to me. We have a couple of hens that are broody. Lockdown is supposed to be Sunday. Instead of going into lockdown, would it be a bad thing to take a bunch of the eggs and stick them under the broody hens? It would seem to me to be a win/win situation. The hens could...
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    If any of these hatch it will be a miracle.

    Eggs in the bater for 2 weeks. Were doing great...nice even temps. Until about 4 days ago. I don't know if it is the thermometer I'm using or the heating element. All of a sudden I'll peek in and the digital thermometer I have in there reads 113 or something awful like that. So I open it...
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    Hatching April 28th...RIRs and EEs. Who is with me?

    I have 39 eggs in the bater. Also 8 or 9 eggs under the geese. Who is with me? PS...we got 2 little piggies today too. Ah, 4H season is upon us!
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    Incubate or just wait?

    Our Toulouse has been laying eggs for a couple of weeks. At last check there were 9 in there, laid probably one every other day is my guess. SO, do I take some out and try to incubate them? I know it takes about 30 days and you have to keep the humidity really high. I can do that. I'm just...
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    Can they eat cake?

    I used to buy a lot of cake mixes on sale. Then I became borderline diabetic and don't eat them any more so I have a cupboard full. Most expired 2 years ago. I know its bad for humans because it can develop mites in the flour mix but would it be OK for chickens? I mean, they eat bugs, right...
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    Turner quit. Can I go on without turning them?

    So we put eggs in the bator yesterday. I checked the turner beforehand and it worked fine. Now it quit. We've had some issues with getting the temp just right and now I don't want to take the top off unless necessary. Can anyone point me to a couple of quick things to look for/fix? This...
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    So the Toulouse laid 4 eggs...

    and are sitting on them but not as much as I expected. Can someone give me the lowdown on whether Toulouse are good sitters and if 4 is normal for her first batch. I'm assuming 30 days is about right for gestation. Its been very warm for Wisconsin so far but will snow in a couple of days...
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    Wrinkled eggs and first eggs smaller...

    I have been getting about 1 egg a day that looks like it has wrinkles or lines in it. We have about 55 hens out there, give or take, so I have no idea who is doing it. Its a white egg. The shell seems solid but I'm just wondering if it is OK to eat? Also, we have about 20 hens just starting...
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    Wintering geese in Wisconsin

    We have 2 Toulouse. They are fine for now but with it getting cold we have to make some modifications. I think I have the feed thing down pat but now I need to know about housing. We got a big calf hutch...about 8x8 ft. The plan is to make a straw bed in there with straw bales piled around...
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