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    Intestines or egg sac help

    Hi I've checked the forums and am not sure what do you think egg sac or intestines attached to egg sac? My whole hatch started a day late and I got 12 of 25 healthy , 1 was pupped but 2 days further late and 1 was alive but last minute quitter never absorbed the egg and veins,the rest were...
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    Sexing baby chicks from a barred rock roo and rir hens

    Hello I am wondering if head dot size has anything to do with sex of chickens from a Barred rock rooster and Rhode island red hens. I tried wing sexing and see some I would think are females and some that are probably males. I've looked at lots of pics etc. I am not an expert yet, have...
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    Umbilical /egg sac not fully absorbed. Hatch question

    Hello so I had a batch hatch yesterday and 18 of 22 made it initially but one was born prematurely probably from the others knocking it open. I had to cull that one tonight due to intestines sticking out and not able to get it in in time before drying. I have a second one that had yolk sac...
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    Day 22 starts this am at 10 only 2 eggs hatched so far

    Hello so the hatching has begun, I have candled and locked down on wed yesterday (sat) was start of say 21 and at 1pm 1 egg externally pipped and another egg was rocking and moving. I have seen some movement in the others. This am I woke to fing 2 fully hatched baby chicks. The others still...
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    Nurture right 360 new incubatorists advice

    so as we grow our fleet of egg layers thanks to chicken math I stumbled upon a nurture right 360 new at tsc yesterday, was looking but not expecting one in stock. This will be our first time hatching Northern NY days have been in 80s nights low 60s humidity all over the board. I have 6 layers...
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    Pekin duck stopped walking flops around healthy otherwise

    one of 2 of our pekins came down with a non desire to walk legs are free of slipped tendons, no issue with bumblefoot, plenty of b vitamins and niacin. The 3 khakis are picking her back and butt feathers , she herself is pulling her feathers. I isolated her for a week used vetmycin, b12...
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    anyone keep a donkey with their flock?

    Just wondering if anyone has a donkey with their flocks and or herds? If so pros and cons would be appreciated we have 45 acres and fenced areas for everyone. However the living spaces and fenced pens are right outside the house. Pastures and wooded areas just beyond. We are just starting...
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    1st flock getting ready for outside. Do they look ready

    Hey everyone, So it is now the start of week 5 for me and the first flock. I have a few questions and need a lil advice. I've watched this forum read books and have mostly everything ready. #1 do the chickens look ready for outside with no heat lamp. Feathers in all but one scraggly one that...
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    Bandita the warrioress Duckling leg ideas

    so if you have seen or followed bandita the duckling she came with a broken and revealed leg mistaken for a few days as niacin issues. She had to have surgery to break and reset the fracture , cast is off today however she still needs lots of love and rehab. So the doctor said she needs to be...
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    Hi new to chickens and ducks personally grew up on a farm but veggies not animals we occassionally had chickens and ducks but I was too much into hunting to be bothered. We now have 45 acres and now 2 goats pygoras 6 pullet is brown's I believe 3 straight run barred rocks in theory 6 ducks 2...
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    Limp leg niacin recovery speed question

    Hello, I am a new parent of chickens and ducklings. We purchased at Tractor supply on mon and all was well day 1. on day 2 I noticed 1 duckling that had been walking fine at the store and on the 1st day now shows signs of not wanting to use the right leg. It keeps its leg lifted and pushed...
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