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    Pinioning keets

    Hi everyone, I am not new to chickens, but I am new to guineas. I'm getting them because we have enough grasshoppers to rival ancient Egypt. I have read that keeping guineas in the yard can be very trying because they like to fly and roost up high. We have lots of predators in the country...
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    Help! Unusual incubation situation

    Hi every one. I need some help. I have unevenly developed eggs in my incubator and I don't know how it happened. I got some Guinea eggs from a friend of mine several weeks back. 6 I kept for two weeks before putting in the bator. Then she 'found their clutch' and I got about 18 more a week or...
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    Need help!

    I don't know what is wrong with my hen. I noticed her cowering in the yard. She is keeping her head pulled down into her body and twisted to the right. She had a bulge in the front of her chest and I thought her crop might be impacted. But as I gently handle her she can straighten it out a...
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    Over winter turkeys or start fresh in spring?

    I have raised turkeys for several years now, butchering each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners as well as some to sell. This last winter, I kept a tom and hen through the winter to hatch and raise my own poults. (I learned a lot about turkeys this spring.) I thought I would do the...
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    mixed breeds...Good layers?

    Hello all...I have a weird questions. Do mixed breeds of good laying breeds still make good layers? I had the ideal that I could buy a large variety of good egg layers and then keep a roo and continue my own flock with good egg laying and free chicks every year. But I have three that are this...
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    Broody chicken for CC?

    Has anyone used a regular Broody hen to raise CC? I had a really hard time with my last batch of CC's. Lost 50%. I was hoping maybe a momma hen would help them move more than the last batch. Anyone ever tried this? Any ideas?
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    Mixing Cornish X with layer chickens?

    Does anyone know if I can mix the Cornish X chickens in with the rest of my regular chickens? I've had a horribly time trying to raise the Cornish X. I bough 50 birds and lost 25. They had enough space, but I thought if I could mix them in with the rest of my birds they would get even more...
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    Desperate for answers/help

    I'm raising a batch of Cornish X. Started with 50 and am at 7 weeks with only 27 and more potentially goon to die. They get a starter/grower feed with 18% protein and 3% fat. I've cut back their rations thinking they were eating too much, but with no improvement. The hatchery says they are...
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    Cornish X dropping like flies

    I have a whole flock of 6 week old Cornish X birds that I've been raising for butcher. I bought 50, lost a few for various reasons and by week 4, was down to 45. Then, I started to loose them at the rate of 1 per day. That was last week. Now, for the last 3 days, I have been loosing them at...
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    Do I have a bad hen?

    All of my babies are dead. My turkey hen went broodie before I was ready and laid her nest on the floor of the chicken coop. I left her and hoped for the best. As the eggs started hatching I found two poults dead near her but not under her. I thought the chickens did it. I moved her to my...
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    Emergency help needed!

    Help! I had a broody hen sitting on a clutch. I went to check her today and found one baby dead on the ground and wet. I thought it was a fresh hatch an something was wrong with it so she kicked it out. I went back later to check again because she hadn't brought the babies off the nest yet. She...
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    Sertogate mom, week old poults?

    I have a hen sitting on a clutch. I had eggs in the bator that hatched this week. I expect the other eggs to hatch middle of next week. Can I still try to put the bator poults out in the coup with the hen?
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    Pasty butt before hatching?

    I had a chick dry out before hatching in the incubator. I must have lost track of how long it had been pipped. The humidity in the bator has been high so I wasn't worried. Well, tonight I freed it from it's shell and it looks like it tried to poop in the egg and its butt is really swollen like...
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    Help!!! Early bird

    I have a suser early hatcher! I set turkey eggs 25 days ago and chicken eggs 19 days ago. I took everyone out of the egg turner this morning and I came home from work today to a fully hatched turkey. How long can I leave it in the bator before moving it to the brooder. I wasn't expecting chicks...
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    Using Serrogate Mother Hens?

    I currently have two broody hens who seem like they are going to make it to the end of their enclosure time. The day that I separated them I gave each 3-4 eggs to sit on. That same day I put eggs in my incubator. I was really hoping that when the 'bator babies hatch I could put some of them...
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    Possible Serrogate mother hens

    I currently have two broody hens who seem like they are going to make it to the end of their enclosure time. The day that I separated them I gave each 3-4 eggs to sit on. That same day I put eggs in my incubator. I was really hoping that when the 'bator babies hatch I could put some of them...
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    What to feed Broilers...so confused

    This is not my first time raising birds for butcher but is my first time with Broilers. I am trying to find out what feed is in my area. I wanted to go organic, but I'm afraid that it will be too expensive. My next choice was an all natural, non-GMO feed but it only has 18% protein and is a...
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    Too many brodies

    I'm in a predicament. I just reworked my two coops and nest boxes and my broodie house. More space=yeah. I put two of my broodies in the broodie house. I can put one more there if I have too. I have 16 hens total and about 8 of them are broodie. I only have a space to break 1-2 of them. I have...
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    Broody in the beatbox...need her out.

    I have two chickens that are trying to go broody on me. I want them to raise chicks if they will, but they are in the nest boxes in the coop. I have a separate small coop that I want to move them to. What I want to know is. Is it possible to move them without breaking the brood and what is the...
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    How hard is this supposed to be?

    I've set eggs three times, a full incubator (41 eggs) each time and of those times I've only successfully hatched 2 chicks. The first time I had wide temperature and humidity fluctiations so no surprises. I don't think any survived the first week. The second time I think I had the wrong temp (a...
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