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    My 2y/o Blue Andalusian hen just started crowing.

    So, I've read about this as being somewhat rare, and also meaning a hormonal imbalance and/or a tumor causing a hen to morph into a roo, but I really never expected to have first-hand experience. Today, while on the phone I saw my Blue Andalusian extend her neck like a roo and let out a...
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    A Fatty Liver Hemorrhagic Syndrome death

    Hey all, Well, I just had a pet chicken drop dead suddenly on Wed morning. The initial necropsy findings were death caused by fatal liver hemorrhage due to Fatty Liver Hemorrhagic Syndrome. I'd never heard of it before the results. In the last 24 hours I've read every study I can find on the...
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    Have you had experience with Research Associates Lab?

    Hey all, Anyone have any experience sending samples into Research Associates Laboratory (VetDNA)? I have sent samples into them before for both DNA testing of hatching shells for gender and blood samples to test for MDV in my flock. I'd like to know others' experiences on how accurate their...
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    I LOVE my "secret" city roo!

    Hey all, just wanted to sing the praises of Chester, my little illegal cockerel! I've always wanted a roo, but didn't plan on it where I'm at now because I'm not allowed to have roosters in the city. I had 3 boys in my last hatch. This little guy is the only one that didn't get a home. He...
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    Chick with chronic watery eye

    Hi there! I have a 4 week old chick with a watery eye that just won't stop watering. She has no other symptoms. She's eating/drinking/gaining weight just fine. No sneezing/head shaking At first I thought it was maybe a pecking injury, then maybe dust. I cleaned it with saline daily and put...
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    2 Gorgeous Baby EEx Roos From a GREAT dad! San Diego

    Hi All, I have two baby roos that need a new home ASAP. They have been properly vaccinated for Marek's Disease and hatched on 5/23/18 They both have the same GORGEOUS Easter Egger dad who is the example picture on Cackle Hatchery's site. Their dad is an EXCELLENT flock protector and also loves...
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    Not Mareks?!?!?!?! What could it have been?

    Hi all, So this is an odd result I received yesterday on some blood tests I had done on my flock. This is not an emergency, I have no sick birds but I want to get your opinion/experience in what this could have been. I had what I thought was Marek's disease take my whole flock over the...
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    Badly Broken Egg Hatches!!!!! :-D

    I just wanted to share this happy ending for anyone who breaks an egg during incubation. I had 4 eggs under my broody, and 5 in an incubator for back-up. On day 19, I brought in the eggs from under my broody for candling since I had forgotten to do it on day 18. While candling, my little Blue...
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    Dropped egg (and cracked open) 2 days before hatch!! Is it hopeless?

    Hey all- so... I just did the unthinkable. I couldn't leave well enough alone and was candling the fertile eggs under my broody one last time before hatch. One of my chickens flew up and knocked an egg off the counter. It fell and cracked open. I quickly wrapped it in a wet paper towel and put...
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    ISO Muscovy and Welsh Harlequin Fertile Eggs- I'm in San Diego

    Hi All!!!! Well... it's time. Time for ducks (and the closely related Muscovy, lol!) in my life! I am excited to hatch out some baby Muscovy and Welsh Harlequin ducklings and I'm looking for fertile eggs from friendly flocks! Anyone have some that I can pick up in or have shipped to San...
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    Looking for Marek's resistant hatching eggs

    Hey All! One of my pullets is going broody (on night 2 in nesting box) and I want to get her a few eggs to hatch out but my property has/had Marek's disease on it. Anyone breed for resistance and have hatching eggs for sale???? I'm in San Diego. Thanks!!!!
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    Dry Stall???

    Has anyone used Dry-Stall volcanic pumice to dry a muddy, smelly, moldy run??? It just rained and there is drainage issues in the run. The Dry Stall is used for horses, does anyone have experience with it? @Amelia Egghart
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    Favorite Chicken Suddenly Attacking Me!

    Why is this happening?!? The baby of my flock, who has just come into lay about a month ago has started attacking me and drawing blood. She's always been a mama's girl and hand raised since a day old. Lately, she's been sneaking up on me and pecking me mercilessly, to the point of drawing blood...
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    Wheezing Pullet, WHAT IS THIS?!?

    Hi all, My 27 week old EE pullet started wheezing... LOUDLY about 30 minutes ago. She's also just started sneezing too. She's ready to lay her first egg any moment and when I first heard it, thought she was doing the pre-egg whiny thing that most of them do but this was different. She has clear...
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    Please add your experience! Molting Survey: How do your chickens molt?

    Hi All, I'm putting together a "real molting" thread to help new chicken keepers with molting expectations all in one place and would LOVE your input, please!!!! So many chicken care websites claim that molting is very predictable and always happens within certain parameters in a certain order...
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    Lash egg???

    Hi all, My 1.5 year old EE who has been laying thin-shelled eggs (but otherwise in excellent health) started walking oddly, tail pumping about a week and a half ago. Noticed it right away, took her inside and gave her an epsom soak + 2tsp olive oil and she popped out a small rubber egg. had...
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    Marek's Again, tomato leaf poisoning or Infectious Bronchitis????

    Hi All, Black Copper Marans Pullet -14 weeks old -3lbs Symptoms: intermittent head shaking with droplets of moisture expelled when she does. Stumbling around, slightly uncoordinated gait. -History of Marek's on property (probable active Marek's still in soil) -Pullet is double vaccinated for...
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    6 week old chicks pooping ALL blood no stool

    Hi there, it's me again with another chick emergency, jeeze! Has anyone had experience in chicks pooping straight up blood? I have 5 chicks that are being brooded indoors. They have hemp bedding (started on pine shavings but moved to hemp a few weeks ago) I ferment their feed, give probiotics...
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    6 day old chick in pain- is this a prolapsed vent???

    Hey guys. So this is my first time raising chicks. My BCM l, who is 6 days old today had a bit of pastey butt going on. I've been very gently running her rear end under the luke-warm tap and it seemed to be getting better. Tonight at butt-check I noticed that her vent looks like it's coming out...
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    In need of slow-grow broilers! San Diego

    Hi there! Looking for 8-10 slow-grow broilers (rangers, slow-growing CornishX, etc) ASAP! I have been expecting an order locally for weeks now and my broody who has been setting on wooden eggs needs them to "hatch"! I'm in San Diego and willing to drive a fairly decent distance this weekend...
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