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    Eye worms or bronchitis?

    Hi, I have about 8 hens that have not laid and egg since I traded for them about 2 weeks ago. 2 of them I noticed had eyes swollen shut yesterday. Symptoms: Swollen eye, oddly enough the right side for both birds cheesy smelling pus on one bird I have not heard coughing there is no pus in...
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    new flock of ameraucanas

    I acquired a group of ameraucanas on Sunday. How soon do you think they would "chill out" and start laying again?
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    malposition epidemic

    Chicken or duck eggs, dry hatch digital temp control. Auto turner Getting almost 50% malposition with heads between legs. What the crap?
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    malposition epidemic!

    Just had roughly 15 ringneck pheasant eggs die due to malposition. The whole batch had heads between their legs. Duck eggs in same incubator only 3 hatched of 18 and only 4 made it to lock down. Not sure what's going wrong. I have digital temp control so I know that is good. Humidity is kept...
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    Silkie with six toes?

    Bought some eBay eggs. 4 of 12 made it to lockdown. 1 died already. 3 are alive. 1 of 2 still partially kicking out has 6 toes. All 4 chicks pipped wrong end and had to be assisted via the learning byc page. Is this a crap breeder who is over breeding and inbreeding? Or is a deformity common?
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    hatching speed breed dependant?

    So my first hatch was a batch of black copper marans and cuckoo marans. They hatched well (17 of 28 made it out alive with no brooder deaths) for shipped eggs. it took the marans atleast 12 hours from pip to hatch. My current batch is roughly 20 white leghorns and 8 rhode island white eggs...
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    First hatch attempt

    Hi all, just wanted to let you all in on my first batch of attempting to hatch eggs. I struggled to maintain a good constant temp between day and night until i realized my programmable thermostat for the house heat was throwing the LG for loops! I then purchase a cheap PID controller after...
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