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    Houdan Owners: Info On Personality? Health Issues?

    Hello, Can any standard Houdan owners out there share your experiences with the breed? Are there any health issues the breed is prone to? And what about their personalities? Are they friendly/shy, calm/flighty, quiet/loud, good layers or bad? I love the look of the breed but am having...
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    Tricking Broodies into sitting on eggs

    Hi, Do chickens know how many days they're been sitting on eggs, and does that affect their maternal behavior (like how long they'll get off the nest. OR...Do they respond to the sounds of the developing chicks in the eggs and base their behavior on that??? I have a chicken that just went...
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    WEIRD! MINI-EGG (Pic) - Is something wrong?

    My silkie is around 9 months old and up until today has been laying normal bantam-sized eggs...Then today I found this in her nest: (Photo shows yesterday's normal egg and today's mini-egg) Is this a sign that something's wrong? Comments, please!!! Alys
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    Preventative Dose Of Corid For Baby Chicks?

    CAN ANYONE PROVIDE ME WITH THE CORRECT DOSAGE OF CORID 9.6 AMPROLIUM FOR PREVENTATIVE USE/ BUILDING IMMUNITY IN BABY CHICKS? I have healthy 6-day old chicks on non-medicated feed, but have had two bad strains of Eimera (coccidia) diagnosed in my older hens in the past, which has wreaked havoc...
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    Mites On Setting Hen - Help With Safe Treatment

    My silkie is sitting on eggs due to hatch in 7 days. I just discovered she has a bad case of poultry mites!!! Her bedding had DE in it, but I guess that didn't help! I was going to take her and the eggs out to change the bedding, then dust her with DE, but I'm afraid more mites will develop...
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    Help! Breathing Obstruction!

    Is there any way to clear something out of a chicken's windpipe? Like a Chicken-Heimlich maneuver? My chicken seems to have just swallowed something wrong and it's not in her throat or crop...It's deeper in the windpipe where it's affecting her ability to breathe. You can hear that something is...
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    Poo Pictures - Blood Or Normal Lining Shed?

    Hi, Here are two poo pictures from my year old hen (two separate poo's about one hour apart) Is this normal lining shedding or something bad? I just treated my flock with corid last week, so I don't think it could be coccidia. This is a tiny "special needs" silkie that got horrible...
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    Anyone with Marek's experience: Advice needed! (Video)

    QUESTION ABOUT MAREK'S PROGRESSION: Does anyone know at what point during the disease you can determine if it will be fatal? Mine has been showing symptoms for 14 days....It went from worse to better to slightly bad again, each time with slightly different manifestations. Do they stay "in...
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    [non-emergency] Marek's Homeopathic Treatment - Video

    I wanted to share my gratitude for the BYC members that mentioned that a treatment for Marek's DID exist! Following is a link to a video of my chicken that the Vet said was going to die 10 days ago: (Title: Appenzeller Recovering From Neurological Symptoms) This is video of my 20 week old...
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    Cocoa Mulch O.K. for bedding?

    Has anyone ever used cocoa mulch as bedding in their chicken coop or run? I know it is toxic to dogs if they ingest it (since it is derived from cocoa bean hulls), but I have heard that it is safe for chickens. Does anyone else have any experience or thoughts on this? I was also considering...
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    Poultry Disease Diagnosis Link - Helpful!!!

    Hello, I discovered a link from University Of Florida that is extremely helpful for disease diagnosis and treatment: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps044 It includes a chart with symptoms and what diseases they are associated with. Hope you find it as valuable as I did! Just thought I'd share...
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    Sedative For Chicken? (non-emergency)

    Does anyone have any suggestions on calming herbs or light over-the-counter sedative to help a chicken from experiencing anxiety while traveling? Something like the chicken-equivalent of Benadryl? I am separating my young roo from his sisters and driving him to his new home several hours away...
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    12 Day Old Chick Won't Eat Or Drink - Help!

    Hi. I have three 12 day old Appenzeller Spitzhauben chicks that I hatched. All were fine yesterday..full of energy. But this morning one of them won't eat or drink and seems very low on energy, and not socializing with the other two chicks. Chick hasn't pooped today, as far as I can tell...
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    Almost Day 23...do I Give Up Hope?

    Hello Hatching Experts! Day 22 in my incubator began at 5:00 last night. How much longer is there a chance for late hatchers? Day 21: 1 hatched, then 12 hours later, another one....Those two are in the brooder*....12 hours later on Day 22, one more hatched. She's still in the incubator. So...
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    ?dry Climate? Lock-down Humidity???

    Hello, Can any of you who live in drier areas tell me what humidity levels you use during lock-down? I am in coastal So. California, which had normally been about 55% humidity outside until the weather shifted recently with all these big fires going on here. Now humidity OUTSIDE is at around...
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    Nervous! 1st Time Lock-down Questions!

    HELLLLP!! I'm a nervous first-timer on day 17 of incubation, ready to go into lock-down tomorrow. After searching many helpful posts, I still have a couple of questions, and hope you all can help! 1. I just weighed one of the eggs as a test, and it has already lost 14 percent of it's weight...
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    Candling: Stuck to shell or other problems? Day 16

    Hi, Can anyone tell me what this weird shadow is that I'm seeing while candling my eggs on day 16? . DESCRIPTION: Something that looks like a shadow of dark sediment inside of approximately 1/8 of the egg, which doesn't move, along with an embryo that is definitely moving when it is...
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    Dead or Alive? Silkie Eggs, Day 12, Photos

    I'd love to get opinions on whether or not these two brown silkie eggs (day 12) that I just candled are still viable??? It's hard to tell with any of the silkie eggs since the shells are brown...The other silkie eggs seem to have darker areas that I hope are living embryos, but I can't see...
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    911! Hovabator Turner Potential Malfunction!!!!

    HELP! My Hovabator turner hasn't changed positions since I checked this morning! I know these are supposed to turn SLOW, but it has been slanted to the extreme right since 12 hours ago...Shouldn't I have seen some movement since then?!? The motor sounds like it's moving, but I have checked for...
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    911! Hova-bator Turner Malfunction - Day 3 Of Incubation!

    HELP! My Hovabator turner hasn't changed positions since I checked this morning! I know these are supposed to turn SLOW, but it has been slanted to the extreme right since 12 hours ago...Shouldn't I have seen some movement since then?!? The motor sounds like ti's moving, but I have checked for...
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