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    Newborn chick doing fine now convulsing and not lifting head

    We just hatched two Turkey's, the first one seems fine but this second one isnt. She started off bad. She wasn't moving, standing, peeping or opening her eyes. I took her out and gave her some told and she started progressing, opening her eyes, lifting her head and standing. Then i just went to...
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    Turkey making no progress after 24 hours

    Our first turkey started hatching yesterday afternoon, he's the first out of six fertile eggs to begin hatching. My husband helped him out a little bit, enough that he could at least breath as he progresses. However, it has been almost 24 hours and it doesn't seem to have made any progress. It's...
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    Can roosters have a 'type' ?

    Our flock started first with chicks that we were raising at someone else's property because they had more room and experience (we are working on building a farm to eventually move the flock to). Then we attended a small animal auction, and so it began. We brought home a rooster named Rocky that...
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    Unique Introduction

    So a couple weeks back we bought a mother hen and six chicks, unfortunately she only accepted four of them (only the ones the same color as her; four were black, the other two were yellow, is this unusual?) and the other two didn't make it. Anyway, at this point the chicks are at least a month...
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    Unknown Difficulties

    I raised the first half of my flock from chicks bought at a farm supplies store, I just recently started trying to incubate my own eggs now that most of the flock are laying and I'm running into a lot of issues. The first three eggs that were going to hatch did not make it. We had one the never...
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    Hello

    I just started the whole chicken thing in Spring when we got them at work, and I love it! Its so fun to watch them and the fresh eggs every morning are great. I'm also considering starting to try some show with some of the fancy breeds I have acquired. I've got roughly 25 chickens right now, and...
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