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    What is this?

    I'm seeing this in the run, I believe is from one chick, 8 weeks old. Should I be concerned? Appetite is fine with everyone, water supply is clean and everyone is eating and drinking.
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    Corid maintenance & others?

    On day 8 of Corid, 5 five week old chicks. Was dosing for severe and today am dosing preventative for another week. They are moving in with a three others who do not cocci for integration into the hens in a couple of weeks. Will it be fine if the others are also drinking the same water dosed...
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    Isbars sex.

    4 week old Isbar blue. He has a bigger comb than the other three. The last three are a blue copper marans and two splash Isbars. I realize it is not the best to figure out at this young age but also have to figure out what to do a cockerels. I am not allowed roosters where we live, so hoping...
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    Crack, split and hatching as we speak!

    So excited! Blue Cochin mom, with fertilized eggs and now they are hatching! Have five eggs, 3 or barnevelders and 2 are Swedish flower from a breeder. Only one egg has pipped and cracked about a third of the way around the egg. Hopefully, the other 4 will follow. I would like to move mom...
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    Dead in 12 hours

    Posted another thread this a.m. about her. Broody Cochin hen, fine last night, just died now. She was sitting on eggs that didn't hatch for 21 days around beginning of April. Then became broody again a week ago. Ate some sunflowers seeds from my hand last night, clucking away. Can they...
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    Hen off nest, just sitting and puffed?

    Broody Cochin, no eggs under her. Been broody for week and a half roughly. She has come out into the run today, just sitting all puffed up but no clucking like a broody hen, won't eat when I put her by the food. Lethargic, eyes closed, droopy wings. Don't see or feel anything out of the...
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    What to do Broody hen if no chicks hatch?

    Does a broody hen leave the nest if no chicks hatch? My girl will be 21 days this Saturday. We put the eggs under her on April 7. Three eggs left ... One we are pretty sure is a chick, one looks like there is a thick blood ring and the third has an air sac but the dark mass is not large and...
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    4-5 days broody too late to add fert eggs?

    Second time broody for my not yet a year old blue Cochin. Is it too late to slip some fertilized eggs under her?
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    Whitewash after red mite treatment?

    I've been battling red mites in my coop. New build this year, new pullets, virgin ground. Used Elector PSP, proper dosage. Still coming back, so I should treat coop again and 7-10 days from now for new hatchings? Can I do a whitewash treatment inside the coop today also or should I wait? What...
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    Elector PSP and whitewash?

    We ordered the Elector end of July. First treatment did 2.5 ml. to a litre mixed well and mixed whilst spraying. 3 days later still had mites. The next three times, we mixed 3 ml. to a litre (the dosing on the bottle says 9 ml. to a gallon ... so our dose was correct). The last two hubby...
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    Integrate 2 new better than one lone one?

    I had posted over in Chicken Behaviour and Egglaying about my new little Cochin (don't know how to add that conversation to here for info?). Quick history .. Three 5 month old pullets (light brahma, buff Orpington, speckled Sussex). Also two speckled Sussex 11 weeks old added 2 weeks ago. All...
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    Cochin too docile for flock?

    I know there is always a pecking order. And can change ... but I just tried introducing a blue Cochin 12 weeks old to my flock and I think she may be too docile for my flock? I've got three 5 month olds, light brahma, buff Orpington, speckled Sussex and two the same age as this new one, 9...
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    Redness around eye

    I've got a little speckled sussex hen who is low man on the totem pole along with a australorp. At first, I thought she had lost an eye but realized she was just keeping it shut and lately both eyes some of the time. No bleeding or rawness, no bugs around her eyes or body, mostly red. No...
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