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    Lice/Mite Treatment eating eggs??

    Hi, I found some little mites or lice on my chickens, I discovered after one hen died :(. I tried dusting the ones who looked infested with Diatamatious Earth and adding it to their dust bath. I gave them about a week and a half and kept seeing the bugs. So after doing some research decided...
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    Leg and toe issues white turkeys

    Hi everyone! This year we bought some white broad breasted turkeys to butcher up this fall, thought they would be simple and easy to raise and get some tasty meat in the end. They are about 6 weeks old and all seem to be healthy birds, they currently live in a movable tractor and I'm allowing...
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    Caring for free range hen with poults

    I have had one of my free range turkey hens sitting broody on eggs for for a month in the trees outside my run. Yesterday I finally gave up on her eggs and I found her some babies to adopt. She has accepted them and they are all doing well (3 little poults and 1 duckling ☺) now I was feeling...
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    Blood poops everywhere.. birds seem fine

    I have about 50 mixed chickens, 6 turkeys a d 2 guineas. We had our roughly 25 older birds (between 4 and 5 months old) in a seperate coop and recently moved them to their new coop along with the baby chicks and turkeys. The baby chicks (4 weeks) have all been vaccinated at the hatchery and all...
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    Mixed Flock feed - turkeys, layers and baby chicks

    I have some hens that are soon to start laying currently eating grower ration (my understanding is they should eat this until they start to lay then switch to layer ration). They have 2 guineas living in there too. These guys all free range and eat a lot of garden goodies and weeds, etc but...
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    Grabbing the already hatched birds out during lockdown.

    Hi, so I am testing out my home made wine cooler incubator for the first time (3rd time hatching eggs ever). Hatch day was today although a few poults hatched yesterday. At the start of lockdown I had 9 turkey eggs and somewhere around 1 dozen chicken eggs all due to hatch today. They are all...
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    Cannibalism targeting broilers

    Hi I'm a first time chicken owner and have about 40 dual purpose birds and started with 85 cornish x for meat. They have been confined to their home since chicks and we have been encountering a major issue. They have started killing each other. They start packing at the back thigh/hip area and...
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    Broiler with enlarged crops

    Hi so a bunch of my broiler have these goofy looking lumps on their chest when you feel them they feel like a stress ball or like they're filled with grain.. I had one die a few weeks ago with a huge crop but he was sickly and would puke if you touched/massaged the lump. These guys seem totally...
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    Keets pecking toes

    I hatched out some keets this week and in the incubator when only 2 were hatched the biggest keet started pecking the smaller ones toes. He had been hatched for 2 days already by then so I thought maybe he was just hungry so I quickly reached in, tossed some wet paper towels in to keep humidity...
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    Hi, I'm new!

    Hi, I have been googling things constantly since getting chickens for the first time about 2 months ago and I always end up on BYC reading posts and comments so I decided to sign up for myself. I hatched my first 8 chickens I got back in April, then bought a dozen from a friend and ordered some...
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