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    baby chicks dying

    from farmerpete. just bought six baby black sex links ,six baby rd.island reds,and two araconas. They are starting to die, and a couple of our other young chickens they are in with have died also. This morning we noticed that one of the sex link chicks is pooping blood. should i notify the...
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    Egg problem??

    from Farmerpete. we have 24 yellow buff Orphs. and 24 white leghorns. Only 4 of our buffs get broody and none of the leg horns go broody, so we bought an incubator 2 months ago to put the leghorn eggs in. Everything went well with the hatching of 40 eggs.,so we decided the next batch would be...
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    noisey eggs ?

    Farmerpete here. My wife says she hears a peeping noise from our ready to hatch eggs. There are a couple of eggs on the wire screen that have the beak whole in the egg. my hearing is very bad and I told her that I don't see how they can make a peeping sound until they come out of the shell. I...
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    snakes are here

    I was told that "snake away" keeps the snakes away from the coop. We tried it ,but found that MOTHBALLS work a lot better. we found one snake in the nest last night with an egg it had just swalloed. The snake was about 3 ft. long and becaues it had an egg in its mouth, it was easy to catch. WE...
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    male guinea chaseing leghorn rooster

    my male guinea is chaseing my leghorn rooster around the pen and sometimes completely out of the pen. We have seperate pens for our yellow buffs which is 40ft. by 60ft. and another for our leghorns the same size. Our two guineas are range free and roost in our trees. The guinea hen is laying...
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