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    Chick With Possible Broken Wing...What do I do?

    So my mother and I picked up seven, little silkie chicks today while out getting quail eggs and appleyard eggs. All of them are fine except one, who appears to have a broken or sprained wing. I think it happened when I put them in the brooder with the other chicks and I feel terrible :( One of...
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    Doves for Squab?

    Has anyone done it? Obviously doves are a bit, sometimes a lot, smaller than pigeons, but I've heard that dove meat is more tender when they get older and I can get doves more readily in my area than pigeons. Go figure. If I go with doves instead of making a loooong drive for pigeons, what breed...
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    Experience with the Incuturn?

    Has anyone used the hovabator turner called Incuturn? How well does it do? Does it actually have enough power to turn goose eggs? Anyone use it for quail eggs? Do you fill both sides or just one side? I'm considering putting four in my wine fridge incubator I'm build.
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    Trasitioning Chicks and Quail to Nipples Instead of Traditional Waterers

    Long story short, my chicks in the brooder are making a huge mess, emptying their water bottle daily (most of it all over the floor), and just generally making themselves smelly. I mean, chicks are messy xD I'm a little worried about all the food and poo that's mixed into their water by the time...
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    Duck Eggs Hatching 3 Days Early?

    Well, chicks were all done hatching as of Saturday, 21 plus 6 I won at a local raffle as part of a "chick starter" kit. My duck eggs hit day 28 on Wednesday, but I decided to put them into lockdown last night because the high on my bator has been 100 and it's been between 99 and 101 since the...
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    Chick With Injured Eye?

    My last chick to hatch out has something wrong with one of his eyes. He still gets up and moves around, eats and drinks fine, but every time I go check on him, one of his eyes is glued shut. If I pull it open for him it's all liquidy inside and the eye itself looks cloudy (dark grayish instead...
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    Getting Stuck Membrane off a Chick

    Long story short, I found one chick shrink wrapped into his egg after he began to zip and stopped overnight. When I peeled back the shell I found the membrane was glued and hardened to him. I helped him out and put some more water in the incubator for those still hatching (four more have hatched...
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    Heyo from Maine

    Hi everyone, I'm a Mainer in the middle of my very first hatch that's just my own. I always watched my mother's hatches growing up and decided I'm finally ready to try and go into small scale homesteading. I have eggs from D'uccles to Wyandottes (columbian and blue laced), and jumbo coturnix...
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