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  1. NancyinAlaska

    Culled hen, found these inside, WHAT R THEY?????

    I just culled a sick hen and found these inside. I went inside and a magpie had grabbed one of the pieces, there were 4 originally. They are very hard and rubbery. what are they? Is there anything I could have done to make her better? THANKS!
  2. NancyinAlaska

    Where can I buy sulmet???

    I've been trying to buy sulmet for about a year now, Jeffers has it on back order as does every place I know about?? Any ideas? I ended up buying Corid this past spring, would rather have Sulmet. Also anyone know where to buy Baytril? THANKS!
  3. NancyinAlaska

    Blue Slate Hen not doing good

    This is a blue slate then a little more than a year old. Her eyes have been looking really swollen and rhuemy. I've given her Tylan IM and vit b. I've also rubbed her head with VetRX, that's what has caused the little black spots, it's dirt adhering to the oil. Her lungs sound clear, and she...
  4. NancyinAlaska

    Unable to get through membrane when hatching

    I've been hatching turkey eggs all summer. The majority of hatches start off pretty good, poults breaking the shell even all the way around, however, the membrane stays intact. I've had to get it off the poults, or they die, getting shrink wrapped. When I crack the turkey eggs to eat, I also...
  5. NancyinAlaska

    Polyvisol Miracle

    Wish I'd taken pics! I had a hatch Monday. The last chick to hatch had a deformed foot, it looked in NO WAY normal, I thought that it was a birth defect. The chick was having trouble getting around, and I decided I'd keep it separate and do the beat I could for the poor little thing. Low...
  6. NancyinAlaska

    Eye is Missing no clue as to why

    My 1 year old Silver Crested Polish's eye is gone. Yesterday he was hiding in a corner, I thought he was terrorizing the newest chicks in the yard, he wasn't. I saw his eye was caked closed. I cleaned it with betadine, put antibiotic eye ointment in, and gave him 1/2 cc Tylan injectable. Did...
  7. NancyinAlaska

    6 wk olds dying GRAPHIC PICS

    I found one chick dead Friday, no reason, just dead. This afternoon I go out and at 1st I thought these 2 were enjoying the heat of the sunshine, in the spasms of feeling good, till I realized something's really wrong. They are 6 weeks old, were hatched here, have been on medicated chick...
  8. NancyinAlaska

    Saved Pipping Poult!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yesterday was day 28, one egg hatched early in the day, I had 6 turkey eggs in with chicken eggs, 1st turkey hatch. The power went out, I was having dirt work done and didn't realize it till I came in to get a cold drink and no light came on in the fridge, I called a neighbor to make sure it...
  9. NancyinAlaska

    RE: Had to Open Bator

    Funny, the chick that hatched while the turner was still in is doing fine, put it in with 10, week old meat chicks, and today I moved 26 chicks and one turkey that hatched into the brooder, and the 1st chick that hatched is ONLY hanging out with the meat chicks, it thinks that's what it...
  10. NancyinAlaska

    I had to open the bator...........

    Well............. I was planning on taking the eggs out of the turner this morning, day 18.......... I heard something peeping in the bator, really the dog heard it and went to the bator, I have meat chicks peeping in the room too so I didn't realized where the noise was coming from...
  11. NancyinAlaska

    Hen laying rubbery eggs

    I have 3 hens, 2 blue slate and a wild, one tom. They lay out by the fence, forget about fake eggs in the coop to tempt them to lay where they are "SUPPOSED"to, it didn't work. For 2 days now, somebody has been laying an eggs that the shell is like rubber. I don't know who's doing it...
  12. NancyinAlaska

    Tibetan Mastiff!!!!!!

    I FINALLY got my dream dog!, a TM from Wisconsin. She arrived last Saturday and what a girl! I've always been in awe of the breed and to actually have one is just WOW!! Named her Tashi, which means in Tibetan, lucky, good luck, auspicious, and prosperity. I can pick her up...
  13. NancyinAlaska

    Laying eggs in icy mud........HELP!

    I have 3 Blue Slates, 2 hens a tom , and also one wild turkey hen. Spring got here and I'd always had them in with my chickens, then the tom started fighting with my main rooster. It got bad, the only thing to do was to separate them. Now the turkeys have their own coop, separated from the...
  14. NancyinAlaska

    Spraddle Legs Causes???????????

    Just hatched Ameraucana chicks, 5 have spraddle leg, culled 3. I used a rubber type shelf paper on the floor of the incubator, I've had some slipped tendons, so I was told to put that down to prevent problems, also have it on the floor of the brooder, so the chicks legs CANNOT slip. Any ideas...
  15. NancyinAlaska

    9 wk olds, 4 wk olds, 2 wk olds........

    I've been hatching. The 1st to hatch, Jan 29th are fully feathered. They have been in a separate coop I opened it up a few days ago, letting them mingle with my older birds. Now I need to get 4 wk olds out of the brooder and want to put them in the coop that I had the 1st hatch in. I'm...
  16. NancyinAlaska

    Chick walking on back of knees PIC!

    I got a pic of it this time. As I said before, these are chicks that hatched Sunday night, and Monday, which was early, Sunday was 19 days. 4 are doing this. They are black sex-linked chicks, females OF COURSE! DOUBLE DARN-IT!!!!!! One has damaged the skin down to the bone, I make a chick...
  17. NancyinAlaska

    Chicks walking in backs of their knees???????????

    I just hatched a bunch of sex-linked eggs, these are the ones I forgot to turn the turner on for a week. ANYWAY........... some of the blacks 4 of them are walking on the backs of their knees, sitting on their butts when they walk and are getting sores at the leg joint, I guess from the...
  18. NancyinAlaska

    OUTRAGED , Animal Cruelty at local shelter

    I live in rural Alaska about 70 miles away from the brand new facility for the Matanuska Susitna Borough Division of Animal Control. I am a licensed kennel, I have 22 sled dogs and I stopped in to see the new facility in Dec. Beautiful! They had a "rooster" and a turkey, so I decided I...
  19. NancyinAlaska

    Forgot to turn on egg turner

    I sat 42 eggs in a hova-bator last Tuesday night...................... just realized today that I forgot to turn on the automatic turner. Anybody ever done that before, what do you think will happen, am I going to lose all the eggs??? THANKS! NANCY
  20. NancyinAlaska

    Chickens are picking at Tom

    I've got a blue slate tom and 2 bs hens, one rescued wild hen. He just started strutting his stuff, he's about 7 months old. Today when I was out in the pen, I noticed that a couple of my chicken hens were picking at his tail end while he was all fanned out, kind of running up, giving him a...
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