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    BCM with white hackle?

    Hello everyone! So as the title says, we have a BCM chick that has white where the copper color should be. It's also missing the leg feathers that our other BCM have. What happened with this chick? Our BCM come from two separate lines. One line consists of a single hen with dark copper color...
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    Gander prolapsed something?

    Hello again. Our gander is nearly 2 years old and has 2 almost 1 year old geese for girlfriends. One is smaller and he must favor her because she is missing a lot of feathers on her head. The other is a bit larger and he seems to have trouble finishing the deed with her just because of the size...
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    • gander goose infection prolapse swollen
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    • Forum: Geese
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    No progress after internal pip

    Hello again! So today I am looking for advice on how to proceed with 2 Embden goose eggs that are still in lockdown in our hatcher (old small incubator). There were 3 eggs that made it to lockdown. Day 26: Candled all three eggs and seen movement in all of them. Egg #2 was internally pipped...
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    • egg geese gosling internally pipped
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    • Forum: Geese
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    Leg twisted 170 degrees?

    It's a batch of 4 turkey poults that are 6 days old. They hatched with some other chicks. They all seemed to be doing fine, everyone looked okay although I haven't closely examined all of them yet. Today my father notices one of the turkey poults seemed to have his leg stretched out behind him...
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    • leg poult problem turkey twisted
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    • Forum: Turkeys
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    DIY Incubator Advice

    Hey everyone, We were on the lookout for a cabinet incubator this year (because you can't have enough incubators!) and couldn't find a professional one for a reasonable price so we decided to make one. Got the wine cooler second hand for cheap, most other parts came from Amazon. -Danby...
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    Gosling looks dizzy and is weak

    Long story short, we had ordered 21 ducklings and 3 Emdben goslings from out West. One of the goslings was only half the size of the other two. We ended up losing six of the smallest ducklings so we feared for this small gosling. While it wasn't a leader of the flock like the other two, it did...
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    • dizzy gosling sick weak
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Geese
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    When to take poults out of the incubator?

    Our first turkey hatched today! This evening is the start of day 26. I thought it odd that this one was in such a hurry to get out. Most of the other 15 eggs have pips that I can see. One egg is moving very frequently and I believe I heard more peeps from somewhere. The humidity has shot up to...
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    Incubator temperature inconsistent

    Hey everyone, So a little background, we incubated and hatched chicks out twice last year. We used 2 different forced air incubators we purchased from Amazon. They are both sold by a number of different Chinese vendors and don't seem to have a "brand name". The first was a 16 egg small one I...
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    • inconsistent incubator temperature turkey
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    • Forum: Turkeys
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    Roo identification?

    We have 5 layer chicks we are raising. They are very tame now and we enjoy having them. We hatched them from our 6 layer hens we got last year and the Aracauna rooster we got over the winter. They are a curious color, especially the light ones with dark spots. Anyway, after they hatched, I did...
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    Need advice on a chick

    We recently received 60 broiler chicks. I believe he said they were Mighty Meats, which I believe are Cornish Cross. They all seem fine except for one. He/She seems a bit more lethargic than the others but seems to be eating and drinking. Normal chirps when picked up. Quite noticeable on its...
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    Hatching chicks advice, day 21...

    So we got a rooster for our 6 hens over the winter with the goal of hatching out 6 more hens this spring. Waited forever for the forced-air incubator to come in. Finally got it and put 6 eggs from that morning plus 6 from the day before into the incubator. Incubation began around 7 PM on April...
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    Eggs in droppings tray?

    Hi, We have 6 not quite year old hens that have laid 6 eggs a day for us, 9 days out of 10, since they've started laying. Winter didn't seem to bother them. However, at one point early in the winter, I was only getting 5 eggs. When I cleaned the droppings trays that weekend, there were 5 eggs...
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    Chicken Coop/Duck House design questions

    Hey everyone! I'm looking for feedback on this design for a chicken coop/duck/goose house. Our current situation is: We have 6 hens and 1 newly acquired rooster, all less than a year old. They live in a 4' x 12' tractor I built with recycled wood with a 4' high raised coop on one end. They go...
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    Hello from PEI, Canada

    Hope everybody hasn't gone stir crazy yet! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I remember my uncles had chickens when I was very young. We bought a house with a fair amount of land just outside town a few years ago and last summer we got our first chicks. We started...
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