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    Never seen worms like this before

    I found these in my silkies' water bowl today. I've kept chickens some 12 years now and have never seen anything like this. It has been consistently cold here, except today was mild in the 50s, so I'm assuming one of my birds must have spit these up into their water. I change their water every...
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    Can I fix her feet?

    This little girl had difficulty hatching out and her feet have been turned under since birth. I don't get too ahead of myself trying to intervene, but she was peeping so vigorously and fully zipped, just couldn't push out. I was gone all that day unexpectedly and when I got there, she had dried...
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    Chick with gimpy leg

    One of my 4 week old chicks has something wrong with her leg. When she's sitting on the ground, she has it stretched out straight behind her. I picked her up and examined it closely. The foot feels a little colder than the other and from the knee joint down it is hanging loosely with no...
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    Opossum attack, need antibiotics?

    We had an opossum in the coop this evening and thankfully I heard the commotion and got out there quickly. None of my chickens were killed and I looked them over one by one as best I could with a flashlight and I didn't find any obvious injuries. One of my girls whose feathers I suspect were the...
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    Wanting to time out hatch for daughter's b-day

    I bought a Hova-Bator Genesis 1588 a couple months ago and have been studying up on hatching and read the Hatching 101 page here. I am wanting to hatch out some eggs from my own chickens and time them out to be in the midst of hatching on my daughter's birthday on March 8th. I want to know if 21...
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    Poults dying off one by one

    I bought 6 Bourbon Red poults from an individual a little over two weeks ago. They were 5 days old at the time. About a week ago the first one died, then two more, a couple days between each one. Prior to kicking the bucket, the only thing I noted was that they were very sleepy looking just...
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    Integrating chicks of various ages

    I had a bad time of it with my mail order chicks this spring and now have straight-run chicks of multiple ages. I already have mixed together chicks that are 3 weeks, 4 weeks and 5 weeks of age. They're doing fine. 14 chicks altogether in this group. I had to go get some more to fill out...
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    USPS has killed my chicks twice now!

    Is anyone else having trouble with shipping delays with the USPS? I've always ordered from MMH for the past 7 years now and my chicks have always shipped on Saturday and arrived on Monday. This year my chicks were held in St. Paul, MN at the sorting facility for THREE DAYS over the weekend of...
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    Why roosters have wattles...

    Ok, I posted this over on TEG and I'm surprised no one over here has seen it yet. Science has unlocked the door to the great depths of the chicken mind! Not that I ever really thought much about it, maybe other than they just look macho, but scientists have discovered exactly WHY roosters...
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    Canning Chicken meat, Can I add salt?

    I canned up 12 quarts of legs and thighs today and wish I had thought to ask this sooner... For the venison and beef I have pressure canned using my BBB, the directions say to add 1 tsp of canning salt per quart (optional), but for poultry the BBB doesn't mention it at all. Does anyone know...
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    Urgent! Hen sick, turning her head and rolling

    I saw her out ranging with the others and she looked fine only an hour ago. I just came back from shutting the coop door for the evening and found her laying in the bedding material below the roost. I picked her up to get a better look at her and she is turning her head and neck like a...
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    An engineering question...

    Here's my new tractor/coop... Still got a couple of aesthetic elements to add to it, but it is up and running. It weighs around 300 lbs. Here's my concern... DH says that it would blow over in high winds if broadsided (we live on a ridgeline and often get 50-70 mph gusts in a bad storm.)...
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    CX very slow to grow out

    This is my 4th year raising CX for our family's freezer. I did some things differently this year, the most significant being that I changed to a new feed. I spoke with the lady who raises pastured CX for our local market and found out that I could buy her custom feed mix from the feed store...
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    Kicking myself, so worried.

    MMH has a new thing this year, shipping min 15 chicks for dates beginning today (April 1st). Something I don't think they considered and I certainly didn't--the delay caused by the Easter holiday! My post office always calls at 7:30am on the dot. As the minutes ticked by, I started to worry...
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    Pounds of Feed Consumed Per Cornish X Bird

    Hi guys. I am just doing up my numbers on the 35 CX I processed spring. I kept very good records this year and I'm going to use them to hopefully make improvements in my flock management in the future. This is my 3rd year raising CX (and the first year I kept records). This has been my...
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    I am so happy with my new watering set up!

    If you raise Cornish X, you know how they'll eat you out of house and home. And as much as they eat, they also drink. I was getting really worn out trying to keep the waterers full. I took a $10 stock tank float valve, a square plastic bucket left over from my horse's supplements and cut it...
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    Bumblefoot Question

    I'd read through the thread on here about how to do bumblefoot surgery, but it didn't go quite as I expected it to. This hen started limping about 2 weeks ago and I brought her inside to chicken ICU. I gave her duramycin in her water for a week because one foot was very hot and a little bit...
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    Getting a new horse tomorrow, fishing for name suggestions!

    I'm going tomorrow to pick up my new horse. He's a 12-year-old Tennessee Walker gelding. I got him free!!! He's a rehab horse, retired show horse, cleared for light work and to build up from there. His current owners had four horses and are downsizing to two because they couldn't afford them...
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    Too many chickens, hard decisions to make!

    Ugh, I hate being the one who has to hand down the orders to the "executioner". I bought more chicks this summer, wanting to get better laying hens. The flock of 13 I have now are pretty, but not practical (for the most part). I am attached to some of them quite a lot. Now fall is quickly...
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    What are you, Little Boy Blue?

    Free mystery rooster from MMH. Started out plain and pale yellow, no markings. Note the slate colored legs. Any ideas?
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