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    What is the best egg candler for coturnix quail eggs?

    According to your experience, what is the best egg candler for coturnix quail eggs. The one I am using now (no brand) sometimes I found it is not bright enough to see through the eggs.
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    How to treat chicken mites and lices

    Seems that lices and mites can be got from wild birds. If you keep the chickens free ranging, how can you keep them free of mites and lices?
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    How do I use tylon 200 on chickens

    I got some tylon 200. It says it cannot be used any animals other than swines. But I cannot get tylon 500. So can you use them on chickens for respiratory disease? It is an injection, but I have never injected any chickens, and I'm not sure if I can do that. Is it possible to put in in drinking...
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    Quail died of eye infection

    More than two weeks ago, a male gambel died with his eyes swollen. His eye has been swollen for more than a week, at first, he still ate and drank, gradually he became weaker and weaker and died. I tried to give him eye drops, but it did not work. He had no other respiratory symptoms, like...
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    New world quails are not easy to raise

    I have been raising quails for about 2 years till now. I am raising both coturnix and the so-called new world quails, California, gambel, bobwhites, blue scale, snowflake, mountain quails, .... I have to say that coturnix quails are much easier to raise, they can be packed into crowded cages...
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    What you do when a flock is getting coryza

    Last week my hub bought some barred rock and sex link pullets from a show despite my advice not to buy chicks more than 1 week old. We put them initially in a separate coop in the barn. After two days I found some of the barred rocks showed signs of coryza, two died actually. I moved the whole...
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    How can I get vaccination for infectious coryza for baby chicks?

    It can only be got and injected by the vets or you can get it from somewhere else and inject the baby chicks myself?
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    Anybody know what are these birds?

    Anybody can tell what are these birds? Thanks!
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    Are these red sex links?

    An old man near here is going to nurse home. He called us to pick up all his hens.
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    What breed is this little hen?

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    What breeds are these roosters

    I have some roosters I am not sure of the breeds. Can somebody give me some ideas? If they are mixed, than what's most possible breeds they are mixed from? Thanks!
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    Will a chickens egg color change?

    I have a light sussex hen (1 year and 3 months old) who used to lay light brown eggs. Recently, I found her eggs are lighter and lighter in color. Today I picked one up from her that is almost cream colored. Is this a natural thing that do happens or does it mean there is some trouble with her...
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    In what occasion will chicken get botulism

    If you let chickens free ranging, is it a high possibility to get botulism? And, if you feed chicken worms not grown on carcass or litres, will they get botulism? My hub had put some unhatched eggs in a bag, then it grows maggots, he gave them to the chickens to eat, is it likely that they will...
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    Is 9 degrees too cold for 5-week old turkey poults

    I have 2 turkey poults that are 5-week old now. They are in a brooder, but they begin to bulley chicks that are smaller than them. I throw them into the barn this morning, which is not heated. They are fine there all day, in the evening I feel it is cold, about 9 degrees Celsius now. I am afraid...
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    Chicken cannot raise her head

    This morning I found one of my hens cannot raise her head, her neck was streched foward, or sometimes she twisted aside. She can stand or walk one step or two, but otherwise very weak. She has no interest in food or water. Her eyes are open and very clear. No discharge, no labored breathing. But...
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    Do chickens pair for life?

    My hub is going to sell one of our roosters, a light sussex rooster. It does make sense: 1. We have too many roosters, 27 free ranging chickens, 6 of them roosters.They fight often and interfere each other in mating. 2. This one is unusually aggressive, he attacks me and my hub, and he bully...
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    Easter eggers crossed with light sussex

    I hatched some green eggs from my easter eggers, I got some white birds (my easter eggers are black or blue). I think that's from my light sussex rooster. So I would get a white bird with muff on their ears? What should I call them? And what color of eggs shall I get from the hens (if they grow...
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    Respiratory disease of chickens?

    The week before last, I found one of my pullets (6 months old, beginning to lay) was sick. She's breathing with open mouth, with a rattling sound, sometimes she made a loud noise which to me sounded like coughing. One of her eyes are closed. She's not eating and it seemed she couldn't stand up...
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    Raising chicken on wire?

    One of our friends suggest we keep all our chickens in cages raised from ground with wires at the bottom. For the following reasons: 1. To get pure bred eggs or chicks since people prefer pure breds than barn yard mix. 2. To keep them eating from each other's poo and other dirty things on the...
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    Does chickens once contracted coryza ever lay eggs again

    I have two silkies, when they were very young, the whole brooder caught coryza, and all of them dead except that two. Now they have grown up, almost 8 months old, one hen and one rooster. They do not show any sign of disease now, but the female never lay eggs. I think other conditions should be...
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