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    6 month old pullet with a cough

    Hatched here from my friend's eggs. No nasal discharge. Eating well, laying, when the sun shines, she does tend to sleep separate from rest of flock, she is my only white hen. Eyes clear, not losing weight, but originally a couple of sneezes, maybe a week ago, and now it's more of a cough, but...
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    double dislocate on a young acrobatic roo

    Ok, I have a good splint on my little gold roo's "knee" well joint where foot meets lower leg. However he is out at the hip. I've been advised to get his weight off that leg, both legs, by making a swing for him in a dog crate, and I am trying to do that this morning, where food and water are...
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    Little roo not putting weight on one foot

    Early January hatch has at least 3 roosters in it. I actually suspect he juat landed wrong flying out of the coop so i have him in solo dog crate, doesn't seem to be avlot of aggression going on. Anything else i can do for him?
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    6 week old chicks below freezing temps

    we have rather extreme cold, not normal for north Texas, currently 15 degrees F, wind chill about -4 F. I have chicks locked in coop with my old birds, and heat lamp on chick side of coop. Only drafts would be edges of east side and around door, top ventilation about 1 inch. They made it thru...
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    Introducing chicks to the adult birds safely

    With no mama to protect them, I have hatched 2 batches of eggs in incubators. My DIY incubator is permanently retired, but I right now have 8 from the Nurture 360 in a great dane crate in the center of my run. I let them out with the adult birds for a few minutes yesterday, rooster was fine but...
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    Incubator eggs hatched 5 days ago

    Are the last 6 eggs likely to hatch, moved to diy incubator on day 23, no action
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    Brooder setup in a hurry

    I have an old wire brooder, heat lamp water bottles. I do not remember if i should just have staw over the wire, maybe a shoebox nest box? Its been 8 years, I'm out of practice. Pic for tax, i moved to diy incubator for temporary from the nurture right
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    Homemade incubator problems

    I built this incubator about 8 years ago when winters and my back bedroom were colder. Have 2 inkbird thermostat controllers, a 15 watt bulb on left with new thermostat, a 20 watt on right with old. 3 thermometers. Having a problem with both inkbird probes reading 10 to 20 degrees beliw my...
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    young hen with white dot in center of both eyes

    she is a lavender americauna, she is eating well and laying, she is slow to come out of the coop etc, and she always misses the grapes. Yesterday I noted cloudiness in both eyes, They don't seem to bother her, she doesn't seem to be in pain, I don't think I can afford cataract surgery. what can...
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    Eyes closed in the afternoon?

    I think it's worming time again. But I have never seen a worm, everyone's weight is good, we had months of drought when I'm pretty sure no worms were around, dogs didn't even have fleas. I wormed them last June I believe I don't know that it is, but one of my young Barnevelder hens, just about...
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    Delaware with pale comb

    I mean really pale. I put some rooster booster in water and made sure she drank some yesterday. It is way hot here about 100 most days and she is a heavier bodied bird. Today I wormed her. I also took her picture. I think this has been getting paler for 3 days and I do think she is dehydrated...
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    4 year old Americauna with a messy rear end

    I work a lot in spring. A lot. I moved my older birds all to the lot and got some point of lay pullets in late January. Added extra roosts, the run is half a lot, privacy fenced, although I can close the smaller run I usually don't. I closed it for a few days to make sure how many hens were...
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    Red sex links - short life span?

    I was given a pair of red sex link hens in January 2018 when their owner moved, supposedly about 1.5 years old (Buff Orpington and RIR cross as I understand it). I lost one last summer, she just kind of went off her feed, I moved her to the lot with the old birds in a dog crate and got her...
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    hen plucking her own feathers out

    This is not my first go round, I think I had a different hen doing it last year. This one got so bald I put her in a big dog crate in the old birds pen, where no one can peck her, and I'll be darned if she didn't clear her back of new feather growth this morning. Hopefully at least her head...
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    Hen abandoned eggs day 19

    My hen moved from the 19 day old eggs this morning to freshly laid eggs and I didn't go out until afternoon. The eggs were cool to the touch. I have moved them to an incubator in hopes I'm not too late, trying to figure out whether to leave it dry or raise humidity, no fan , thermostat...
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    older hen very bloated and heavy - worms?

    I didn't notice she was acting odd until yesterday, my 3.5 year old black australorp. I picked her up to get her away from a big fire ant hill and noticed her weight. She is eating well, some waste is coming out, so today I checked for egg blockage. Nothing in that chute (used thin nitrile...
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    Incubating chicken eggs and Harlequin welsh duck eggs at same time

    Are the temperature and humidity requirements compatible? Seemed to me chickens hatched at about 21 days. HW seem to require 25 days. Have a plastic coleman cooler incubator, working on the thermostat arrangement now. (cooked some eggs in the old styrofoam bator last december, not taking...
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    How did I get mareks?

    My feed store hens have always been healthy, I bought chicks there. My old bird flock is (but may not stay that way) as they went and nosed around the paralyzed or semi-paralyzed rooster I had in a dog crate in the shed. He has some use of his legs and had kicked some food out. I found him...
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    First time hatching.

    I built my own incubator. I did not get on here first - big mistake. Am almost 2 weeks in and my temps have been at 99 (not forced air) and humidity about 65%. Am bringing the temp up a bit and trying to lower humidity. Going to get an x on each egg on my next turn here shortly. So glad I...
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    Aging hens, 2.5 years, and it is hot out. sick or not?

    My 2.5 year old hens are aging, one apparently healthy production red dropped dead last week, a little shy about coming out of run to free range one day, dead the next. All my PR's have quit laying, not really moulting but I suspect they are winding down. Now the still - laying Americauna's the...
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