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    brinsea eco not much room for chicks

    I'm hatching polish bantams right now in the brinsea eco, two have hatched and there is so little room between the eggs and the "roof" grate that they can't even stand up. This is my first time using this incubator, I have incubated before in a hovabator and obviously there is lots of headroom...
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    lice,mites and ivermectin first time doing this feedback?

    My flock has lice and there are black/red mites in all the joints of the wood nesting boxes. I have pulled the nest boxes out sprayed them with bleach and left them out in the sun for the last day cleaned all the shavings out of the coop pulled everything out to the studs and washed it out...
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    brainstorm my coop problem with me

    I have a plywood shed coop that I built for my chickens. There are currently 10 standards and 2 bantams all ~14 weeks old, the shed is 8x8 with a shingle roof, right now the outside is wrapped in tar paper it is so full on condensation its awful, I'm going to add more venting today, but I also...
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    I think my flock has Mareks

    This is going to be long THree (or four? ) weeks ago I posted about a lethargic pullet, she didn't have anything particular wrong with her, just fluffed up and looking depressed. I did bring her in and made sure she was eating and drinking after 4 days I put her back in the coop. I have...
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    question about feather footed show birds

    OUr family is just starting out with chickens, my son wants to show his bantam cochins. I'm looking for the best ways to keep their feathered feet in tip top shape? what kind of litter ? lots of shavings? what about a run? the two we have get messy feet from going outside. Trying to figure out...
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    lethargic pullet 12 weeks with brightish green poop

    Yesterday early afternoon I was tending to my flock of 12 week olds. they all looked happy and normal a few hours later when I went to close up the coop one of the little pullets was all puffed up and lethargic, when I poored feed into the feeder she didn't move. Nor did she resist when I picked...
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    How would you respond to this???

    First let me preface this by saying this is not a breeder on backyard chicken I ordered a dozen eggs from a breeder I wanted blue/buff and partridge silkies the person I ordered from has "show quality" silkies. I received the eggs in record time, with great packing. I incubated them, and they...
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    is this cochin still a hen?

    I posted a picture of this chicken a month ago and the consensus was hen, but I keep worrying its really a rooster, because the comb is a lot bigger than my other cochin of the same size what do you think? still a hen? BB (the birds name) still has yellow on the top of its comb, the comb is...
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    issues with wet litter in my coop

    I have 10 chantecler standars (12 weeks old) and 2 bantam cochins (14 weeks old) in my coop. Its an 8x8 foot wood shed with an 8 foot ceiling. There in a 6x8 inch vent on one wall and a large chicken access door on the same side, as well as a window. I'm using the deep litter method, but the...
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    anyone use the nasco chicken nest box?

    Anyone try one of these in their coop http://www.enasco.com/farmandranch/action/ProductDetail?sku=C18949N I've looked at them a few times and they look super easy to install and great for a smaller coops. I'd like to know if they are big enough for standard chickens?
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    stumped flock of 12 week old chanteclers how to tell sex??

    Okay I"m stumped I can't tell which is which with these chantecler chickens, the cushion comb has me totally confused. Some of the chickens have really red combs, but 2 of them are flat and wide (no raised areas) one of them has a raised narrow comb that is quite red, the rest of the chickens...
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    Yeah! they are peeping ! they're done with pictures

    I got some silkie eggs shipped to me three weeks ago they arrived perfect and with extras to boot. Today is day 19 and I was a bit late to take them out of the turner and up the hummidity, I candled a few of them and one of them was peeping! so I quickly took them out of the turner and upped my...
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    flukers battery how long does it last? need to know asap

    OKay I have 18 silkie eggs in my incubator i'm on day 10 I candled them this morning and they are all moving with great veining. but all day my temperature has been 4 degrees too low I don't know what happened I figure its one of two things 1. one of my kids messed with the temperature setting...
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    2 bantam cochin chicks 1 female 1male? help!

    If you could give me your opinion? I think one is a hen and one a cockeral they are about 4 or 5 weeks old buff bantam cochins
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    day old chick with serious scissor beak, only one eye, what to do ?

    I hatched 13 chicks in my incubator hatch started 24 hours ago and 12 chicks were out withing 12 hours and there was one egg left with just a pip I took all the rowdys' out of the bator and decided to help the egg with the pip in the end hatched out a big chick with lots of energy, but serious...
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    day 20 and i'm biting my nails hatch complete ! photos!

    THis waiting is awful! I'ts early on day 20 and I'm not expecting anything to happen till later tonight or tomorrow but I'm having such a hard time. I keep looking through the windows with a flashlight to see any pips even though I know its too early! man I must be going crazy I'm worse than the...
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    we got two chicks *photos*

    Well we came back from the poultry show. Went down to get bantam cochins pullets came back with two little 1 week old buff cochin chicks We still have standard eggs set to hatch Nov 1st, Can I put the 1 weeks old chicks together with the ones we are hatching? the cochins are bantams (the...
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    1 wk old chicks not sure if they are okay

    We just brought home two bantam one week old chicks, They were active and peeping eating and drinking on the way home which was a 5 hour drive. They rode in a shoe box with shavings, water and feed in the heated van. THey are now in a brooder when I first put them in they ate a bit and drank...
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    how big a box to transport bantam chickens?

    I"m going to a chicken show tomorrow expecting to buy a few bantams. How tall does the box need to be? I have a medium sized dog kennel (the verikennel kind) can I put more than one bird in a box? (if they are coming from the same breeder which is my plan) this will be a four hour car ride home...
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    how do you choose medicated or non chick starter

    My chicks should hatch next week and I want to feed them non- medicated starter. A big reason for raising my own chickens is I don't like medications or pesticides at all and want to keep it as far from my families food as possible. BUT I don't want any unnecessary deaths Do people have good...
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