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    Possible prolapsed hen

    I think one of my hens is prolapsing. She is a year and a half. She laid all summer, but quit about 2 months ago as did the others. My question is, is this treatable and if so, what do I need to do? I can push everything back in, but keeping there appears to be an issue.
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    Thank you girls!

    My hens finally caught the mouse in my grain bid that I've been setting a trap for, for almost a month. I guess mousey ventured out of the grain bin into the pen and oops....... I heard excitement in the pen last night and looked and my favorite hen are carrying around the dead mouse...
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    New Crele OE bantams

    Can anyone tell me if you can tell their sex at birth? I got my order yesterday and 5 are dark chipmunk striped with dark eye lines. The other 2 are very much lighter, only faint striping and no lines around their eyes. I know the eye lines in Welsummers mean pullets. Is that so with Creles...
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    Injured Blue Slate Hen

    Does anyone have any suggestions on how to help my injured hen? She has a huge hole on her back/side from breeding. I've separated her from the flock, but I'm concerned it won't heal up without some intervention. It looks fairly deep, not just surface tearing. It has been bleeding and...
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    Blue Slate Poults are pipping!

    Today is the 27th day for my baby turkeys and this morning I had 2 pips. I have 14 eggs in the bator, 2 of which I'm questionable about. I can't wait to get home this evening to check their progress.
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    How do you catch your turkeys?

    Last night when I went to close my turkey door, one of my hens was outside the pen. It was almost dark and she was frantic to get in with the others. Everytime I tried to get close to her she would flap her wings and fly up and then run like the wind. I couldn't herd her at all toward the...
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    Fertile egg issue

    Last year I only had one hen and two toms. I set my eggs and out of the whole bunch only one was not fertile. I added four more hens to my flock last summer. I now have eggs in the incubator and by just a quick check on day 11, I'd say that over half are not fertile. I'm obviously not happy...
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    Poult eye problem

    I have a 9 week old poult that suddenly seems to have something wrong with one of its eyes. It was fine yesterday. The actual eye ball appears to be bulging a little bit. Around the eye seems ok, just the eye ball is bigger and it looks a bit bluish or cloudy. I've never seen this before...
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    Poult eye problem

    I have a 9 week old poult that suddenly seems to have something wrong with one of its eyes. It was fine yesterday. The actual eye ball appears to be bulging a little bit. Around the eye seems ok, just the eye ball is bigger and it looks a bit bluish or cloudy. I've never seen this before...
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    Blue State Turkey Toms for sale - Central CO

    Is anyone interested in some 7 week old little toms? I bought 6 poults from the feedstore (poults from McMurray Hatchery). 4 ended up being toms and I can only keep one. U pick up only. $10 each.
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    Turkey egg question

    I have a friend who just gave me a couple turkey eggs to incubate. Should my temp and humidity be the same as for chicken eggs? I know they take 28 days, but is everything else the same, as in upping the humidity the last 3 days?
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    Crooked Keelbone, what causes this?

    I have several chickens that I hatched this past summer that have crooked keels. Why has this happened? Is it a genetic problem or what?
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    First pullet egg!

    We were gone for 4 days over Christmas and when we got home I had 2 eggs from one of my EE pullets that I hatched this past summer. New eggs! Yeah! It hasn't been above freezing in a couple weeks and in the teens at night, but that hasn't stopped little Peep!
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    Adoptive momma and chicks

    Here are a couple pics of my Cuckoo marans hen with her chicks that I hatched in a bator and gave her.
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    My funny looking mutt cockeral

    I have a seven week old mutt cockeral that is turning out to be most unusual. Mom is a Welsummer and dad is an EE. He is a single comb, but he appears to have tuffs more than muffs and no wattles. I've never seen this combo before. When I've crossed EE's with pea combs to a single comb...
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    Babies!!

    I finally hatched out 9 chicks yesterday out of a batch of 14 mutt eggs. I'm super happy because this is my 4th try this year. Everyone is doing fine. They hatched yesterday and I put them under my broody cuckoo maran early, early this morning way before daylight. When I checked on them at 8...
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    Swollen eye on turkey poult, Help!

    My friend has a pair of Blue Slate turkeys that he bought this spring. The hen has something wrong with one eye now. It swells shut and stays that way for several days and she looks miserable. Then for a day or so she can open it and the swelling goes down. Then the eye closes again and...
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    Lyon TX-7 ?

    Does anyone have one? If so, how does it work for you? I'm looking to upgrade from my hova-bator because I can't seem to hatch much out of it.
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    Does anyone have this problem??

    I have a hovabator with a fan. But I'm slowly finding out that I still have temperature variations to the tune of about 3 degrees difference in different places in the bator. If I set it at 100 in one place, it is about 103 on the other side and about 101 in the middle. I don't know how to...
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    My final countdown begins - UPDATE - GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

    Starting on day 19 today. I'm sitting on my hands and waiting. I have 16 mixed breed eggs in the bator. This will be my 3rd hatch this year. The first two were zero hatches from shipped eggs. So I don't know if it is me or the eggs. Hopefully this hatch will tell. I need some good...
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