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    Chicken with diarrhea - yeast in stool sample

    Not my chicken... but a friend who is a vet (better versed in cats and dogs) asked if i had any experience with microsporidia or yeast in a chicken stool sample... chicken is having diarrhea. Any info/experience to pass along? This one is new to me
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    Foot problems... frost bite? Rotten?

    I have a chicken who hatched with a curled foot, he was able to get around okay and seemed to get along with the other chickens and was doing just fine... But he couldn't roost. I put vaious ramps and things in the pen to give him things to climb up on but he pretty much always stayed on the...
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    Opening the incubator to remove early hatchers

    I had 2 chicks hatch a day early, I left them in the incubator for a day in order to keep the lid closed during 'lock down'. They were joined by a 3rd the next day and I figured they would start needing food and water so I opened the lid to grab them out and transfer them to the brooder. We had...
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    Chick belly button issue

    This bellybutton does not look normal, right? I noticed it when I was cleaning pasty butt from this (then) 2 day old chick. I found this chick dead the next morning. I always thought the best course of action for belly buttons was to leave them alone and keep the brooder clean (which it was...
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    Bringing new birds home...

    Question about bringing new birds into the flock... I have my 4 new (adult) hens in the chicken tractor for quarantine, two of them are kind of dirty (looks to me like they may have been in a muddy run with a rooster iykwim, lol) and one of them has a dirty butt. I'm going to give them a bath...
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    name my predator (warning, dead chicken pic)

    What did this? I've lost so many birds in the past two months, most of the time they just disappear, sometimes they are left like this. Inside the run, no evidence of digging under the fence, top of the fence is floppy so no climbing, I'm thinking an aerial attack. Most happen at night or early...
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    Roosters, predators, breeding set up...

    Going to be lots of info here to preface my questions, so... here goes... I have a 1 year old flock of RIR and Black Australorps including a BA rooster. He was very friendly and good with people all of last year. This spring, something changed in his behavior and lots of things changed in...
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    Hen-pecked turkey poult... head injury!

    Help! We were out all day (dentist appointments down in the city) and just got home and went out back to feed the birds & rabbits. As I walked down the back steps I saw that one of the turkey poults (about 9 weeks old) had just gotten into the chicken run and the hens were attacking! Thank...
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    Sick? Lethargic chick, should I separate her?

    One of our ~14 week old chickens has been acting lethargic and just standing or laying a lot today. We just lost a chick last week to wry neck and I'm kicking myself for not questioning her health when I first thought something might be off (maybe we could have saved her?). I can't 'see'...
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    Flooring Opinions

    I know this has come up a lot and I've read lots of posts with varying opinions, but I just can't decide what to do for my coop floor. My floor is elevated and constructed from pallets, I don't really have the resources to buy (and bring home) a piece of plywood large enough to cover it. I've...
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    overheating? or normal behavior?

    I've been taking our 3-4 week chicks outside to a little outdoor pen every few days (as long as it isn't raining) to get them used to being outside and to give us a space to be in with them and handle them. Sometimes they seem to be overheating despite having shade and water available. Right now...
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    Size okay for 8 full-size chickens?

    I'm already suffering from chicken math and I'm just a newbie! We originally planned on having 6 hens but right now we have 9 chicks. We hatched out 5 of them so there are likely at least a few roos (one of the 5 is developing a more prominent comb than the others, but they are only 3 weeks...
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    Black Australorp, how early can you tell gender?

    We hatched several BA eggs and now have four 2-week old chicks. One of the chicks has a much more pronounced comb than the others, one has a nearly non-existent comb, and the other two are sort of in between. I didn't really think that you could tell gender in BAs this early, so is it just that...
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    How long can 5-day old chicks be without heat?

    Our heat lamp died this afternoon, Dh is going to pick up a new bulb on his way home from work in an hour or two but the chicks have already been without it for a few hours. It's about 73 degrees in here (and it figures that it's only 70 outside today instead of the 85 that it has been the past...
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    Mystery chick, supposed to be RIR?

    I got a few RIR eggs from a friend to incubate with the dozen black australorp eggs that I ordered. This little guy hatched out of an egg marked with an R and at first I thought we just mixed up the labels (I have two young children who may have rearranged the eggs in the carton before we...
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    Can a chick get shrink wrapped if it hasn't pipped yet?

    Newbie question... This is our first time hatching, today is day 22. I have two daughters (6yo and 3yo) who were VERY anxious to take the first, early chick out of the incubator (day 20). We waited until yesterday when we had 3 chicks out and one external pip; I lifted up the lid really quick to...
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    Perch in front of nesting boxes

    I came across another thread recently talking about how the chickens weren't investigating the nesting boxes and it was suggested to add a better perch in front of the boxes. Now I'm evaluating my coop plans and wondering what a good distance is for those perches... My plan at the moment is to...
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    Will a few days of lower temps delay hatch day?

    First time incubating eggs and despite having my incubator set up and stable for a full week before putting the eggs in, I've had a terrible time with the temp after the putting the eggs in. I think part of the problem is the way the thermometer is wedged in the turner, the bulb edge is down at...
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    Candling question - air cells moving a bit?

    I got a shipment of a dozen australorp eggs this morning, placed them pointy end down in an egg carton and let them sit all day to settle. I planned on putting them in the incubator along with my local eggs tomorrow morning, but when I candled the shipped eggs tonight I noticed that the air...
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    Hatching eggs are finally here!

    I'm so glad I went ahead and ordered a second dozen of eggs because the first dozen still hasn't shown up and tracking still hasn't been updated since May 29 (it's been 'in transit' for 9 days now, never had such a delay on a Priority 2-day package). Anyway, my girls (3 and 6yo) are really...
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