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    Help! Sick hen... :(

    I have a 2 year old New Hampshire that is lethargic and not interested in eating. Laying down a lot, and her comb and waddles are almost colorless, very light flesh colored instead of pink or red. I saw her poop a little bright yellow very loose stool. I went to pick her up and she didn't...
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    I have one lonely little chick out of our "hatch"...

    I feel like the chick should be interacting somehow with other chicks so I put a little teddy bear in there which he does cuddle with. Is there anything else I can do to make sure he doesn't get too lonely? I'm afraid when it's time to put him in with other chickens he won't be socialized...
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    "Broody" hen but she is no longer laying any eggs.

    I have a small cochin mixed breed that has laid eggs faithfully for the past 9 or 10 months that has become suddenly broody, (sitting in her nest all day/night) but has not laid any eggs for approximately 2 weeks. Should I be concerned that she may be egg-bound? If so, is there something I...
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    HELP!! Cocci?

    We have a brooder with 4 week old and 3 week old buff orps in it - we found one dead this morning, and another is hunkered down in the corner very weak with bloody stool. Is this cocci? Do I need to separate them immediately from the other chicks? What risk do the other chicks have of...
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    Question for "eggsperts"

    We have RIR's, Delawares and New Hampshires. We had a Delaware Rooster and still have a RIR Rooster. We hatched eggs from this mix of breeds and one of the young hens who is light red in color just started laying eggs. She is approximately 4-1/2 months old. The eggs she is laying are very...
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    Don't give up on the late hatching eggs!

    We just had a hatch on Monday and early Tuesday, and ended up with a few eggs that didn't seem to be doing anything but we left them in the incubator "just in case". This morning I noticed some pipping in one of the eggs and within a couple of hours we had a healthy chick hatch 3 days after the...
  7. CBarrett

    Anyone selling EMU eggs?

    We would like to start a small flock of emu's... Anyone out there selling fertilized emu eggs??
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    NW Florida Panhandle! Anyone else?

    We are between Pensacola and Panama City near the beautiful Emerald Coast. Any other BYC'ers out there in this area?
  9. CBarrett

    I dropped an egg in the incubator while candling at about 14 days...

    The shell is cracked in several places, but membrane looks intact. I never did this before, and I was pretty mad at myself... Should I toss it or leave it in there and give it a chance??
  10. CBarrett

    10 mo old and 3 mo old Delaware Roosters - NW Florida

    We had to separate the Delaware and RIR Roosters. I am keeping the RIR, selling the Delaware. He is a good producer. Also have a 3 mo old Delaware Roo, they are very large birds. 10 mo old - $10 3 mo old - $8 Call 850-682-2464 or reply to [email protected]
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    Hatching chicks today - WHY do they make it this far, externally pip and then DIE??

    26 eggs in the 'bator, and it totally upsets me when I lose one. <sigh> On the up side, we have 8 healthy chicks so far, more actively pipping and one zipping as we speak.
  12. CBarrett

    Storing Fertilized eggs..??

    I received a call from a lady that wants us to collect all of our eggs for the next 7 days so she can come pick them up next week to put into her cabinet style incubator. What is the best way to store all these eggs until then? Right now I have them in a Coleman chest cooler out on our...
  13. CBarrett

    Help! New chick just hatched and...

    Attention experts and experienced ones.. One chick just hatched and has a little red "sac" hanging out of her rear end.. Is that the rest of the yolk that didn't get absorbed completely? Will she be okay if I just leave her in the incubator until that is absorbed or falls off? She seems...
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    Rhode Island WHITE?

    A few weeks ago, this little girl showed up at a friends house (she has no chickens) for several days and was missing her tail feathers as if something tried to catch her. We went and caught her and brought her home. I started wondering what breed she is and started looking through the breeds...
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    Is there a correct way to clean eggs that you are going to eat/sell?

    Is there a homemade solution you can use, or is just water good enough? I saw some egg cleaning spray at the feed store, but I'd rather come up with a solution myself if possible. I know you shouldn't clean them if you're going to incubate, but what about the ones you refrigerate?
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    Big Red

    My handsome RI at 5 months old..
  17. CBarrett

    Fast cure for splay-leg!

    This past April I bought 6 day-old chicks (our first time trying to raise chickens) and in May, I noticed one of the chicks was having trouble getting around. Eventually she couldn't even stand let alone walk, and other than those symptoms she was healthy, eating and drinking. We were holding...
  18. CBarrett

    Does anyone know anything about independent contracting with Perdue?

    I found out recently that Perdue will contract farmers to grow their poultry on their farms. Does anyone here do this, or does anyone know anything about it?
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