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    Culling 6 week old chick with baking soda vinegar

    So I have another post about chicks not being able to walk. Well I tried, I got her walking and then she stoped walking again I think she is just deformed and I think I need to put her down. I have been reading about the baking soda and vinegar method. I am to much of a wimp to use the sissisor...
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    Splay or slipped tendon or????? Need help

    My little bantam finally hatched a nest it is mixed of her eggs and my rir. Any ways I had 2 chicks that hatched last we believe( she nested under the coop so we didn't know) one will not put its right leg down. It keeps it held up and limps around. The other will not stand at all and just...
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    2 roos fighting question?

    OK kinda a long story...... lil Roo was born here, big roo and little roo lived together for 1 1/2 yrs, lil roo just kinda stayed to himself with his mother but they all slept in the same coop ate same food ect ect........Last oct, big Roo got sick, we brang him in the house for a month and a...
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    rooster still fighting need ideas?

    OK i am baffled as to what to do.I NEED SUGGESTIONS!!!! all my roosters have been breed here and raised here from my very first one 8 yrs ago and they have all gotten along for the most part except for pecking order squabbles. so this is the problem i am having now..... my main big rooster (4...
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    Roosters eye scabbed shut?

    I had a sick rooster that we ended up bringing in the house for a few weeks, anyways he has started walking again and i put him outside problem is our little young rooster has taken over and is being vicious, and attacked him well a lot, we'll i noticed his eye was shut the other day and thought...
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    Help Again! falling chicken

    I have a rooster about 4 yrs old, the other day i noticed he was walking "like a drunk" i checked on him later he seemed like he has doing better so i left him, later that night i checked the coop and he wasn't on the perch he was laying on the ground. my son was sick yesterday and i forgot to...
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    loss 2 half hatched, need advice?

    I have a banty that went broody her first time, she was sitting on about 10 i think. first one hatched 2 days ago. within a few hrs. I checked at 12:00 no chicks we checked at 5:00 and there she was. next day another started hatching but very slow. so i tried to bid my time and give her 24 hrs...
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    Hen Broody/ loss 2 babes didn't break out egg?

    I have a banty that went broody her first time, she was sitting on about 10 i think. first one hatched 2 days ago. within a few hrs. I checked at 12:00 no chicks we checked at 5:00 and there she was. next day another started hatching but very slow. so i tried to bid my time and give her 24 hrs...
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    stumbling falling chicken!?

    Ok i went out this morning to feed and water the chickens and realized that my big roo was walking like a drunk and then he had a hard time jumping back into the coop then after i filled there hanging food dish he was getting trampled and knocked down by my few girls i have left and so he just...
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    Chicken broody in trash can?

    OK so i have a sexlink that has gone broody amazingly the 2nd chicken this summer to go broody problem is i keep a metal trashcan in there coop for feed, and this is where she decided to have her nest, it is empty so she is "nesting" on a empty metal bottom, and it is hot here been in the 80's...
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    Help! bad smell in bator on lockdown!

    hatch day is today 5/11......but there is nothing yet. i locked them down wed. night........well yeasterday i noticed a very bad smell coming from the bator i can only assume that one is dead........since i am on lock down do i dare open it to try to find the bad egg and remove it..........there...
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    Need pics of piping!

    short story , set eggs under mom 4/20, she got off the nest on Saturday, and we found them, they were still alive ......made emergency bator, have been trying to do my best with temps and humidity but temp has been between 95-99 and humidity either really high or really low......today found...
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    need help w/ thermostat/ styrofoam cooler

    We had a emergency momma got off the eggs they have 8 days to go, so we threw them on a heat pad, while we built a styrofoam incubator, I dont remember what type of thermostate i bought cause its been over a yr a very basic one, but we have never used it, anyways i'v been trying to get the temp...
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    Need advice? taking chicks from mother?

    I have a broody RIR that was sitting i candled them and she had 3 out of 10 good ones. Well after i figured she was broody i Found a friend that gave me some banty eggs so i decided to put those under her and a few others and wait the 7 days to see if they were started then take the others 3...
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    need advice! taking chicks away?

    I have a broody RIR that was sitting i candled them and she had 3 out of 10 good ones. Well after i figured she was broody i Found a friend that gave me some banty eggs so i decided to put those under her and a few others and wait the 7 days to see if they were started then take the others 3...
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    broody hen and eggs ?

    So 2 summers ago I added new chicks to my flock, and ever since they started laying they have been laying everywhere but in the coop, and then i lost quite a few this past yr. so now i am down to 5 girls and a Roo, they had pretty much stopped laying all this past winter, and if they did lay it...
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    Broody hen/ eggs question which are which?

    So 2 summers ago I added new chicks to my flock, and ever since they started laying they have been laying everywhere but in the coop, and then i lost quite a few this past yr. so now i am down to 5 girls and a Roo, they had pretty much stopped laying all this past winter, and if they did lay it...
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    WANTED Mille Fleur D' ulcces Lemon preferably or other colors

    I have been wanting Lemon mille fleur's for 3 years and finally got 3(not lemons) this may. and 2 have since died all in one week. i have one left. i have looked around and all the hatcherys are sold out, all i want is 2 or 3 to replace what i have lost this week....If you have any you are...
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    splay legged?

    i have a very sm. bantam chick picked them up 4 days ago now and noticed it had splay leg (i think) it is not bad his legs just spread out enough to look like he waddled instead of walked that is slight splay leg right? i thought back and realized the girl i picked them up from had them on flat...
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    eye infection?

    just picked up 3 mille fluers 2 days ago and when i got home i noticed one had crusted/glazed eyes what is the best solution for getting rid of the infection in a couple day old chick, i have been just wiping it with warm water the last 2 days but doesn't seem to be getting better. I did not...
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