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    Cocci in 6 week old chick. DOSE ADVICE PLEASE

    Morning, we rescued some chicks that were the same age as our hatch give or take a day or two recently due to their broody being nabbed by a fox. I am pretty sure one has cocci (and therefore the whole lot). Really droopy and sorry for herself, not much appetite. Is lively when I get her out...
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    Rescues - endless health problems - scaly leg, sun burn and prolpase vent

    Hi, So following my last post late last week the lady on the other allotment has finally relinquished her 4 poor birds to us. One bird is 2 /3 bald with what appears to be wicked sunburn which has caused her skin to dry and and harden over the feather follicles. Many feathers are growing under...
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    Query Prolapsed Vent

    **Please note these are not my hens and we are trying to get them handed over to someone who can care for the properly. ** We have an allotment the lady opposite has 4 hens. She spend a small fortune on fancy houses and runs but doesn't actually look after the girls properly. One is almost...
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    Hatching nervous nelly! Picture included

    Morning all, So we have another hatch going and they are in lock down. Candling at day 18 gave me 11 viable eggs, with good air cells we had marked the progress. 3 gold top bantam, 3 partridge wynadott bantams and 5 lemon sablepoot millefleur bantams. So yesterday we had 2 pipped early on...
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    Single chick popping under a broody hen

    Advice please lovely people. I had a rubbish hatch from shipped eggs and had a single chick hatch, he gets very distressed when left alone so I thought I could try him with one of my girls. One of my pekin bantams is broody, she's an old lady but not given to being stroppy. So I bought her in...
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    Doofus chicken! What to do?

    So my leghorn bantams are on day 20 nearly day 21. Over night on day 20 the attached egg pipped and then some. We woke up to this today, so it's been like it roughly 10 to 16 hours. My concern is the colour (why is there a black patch) and the position. We marked the air cells at the end of day...
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    Bantam Lockdown Day 17 or Day 18

    Hello peoples, So after our last disaster and total hatch failure we bought a new incubator and hygrometer and thermometer. Temps and humidity have been consistent. Last candled from the fat end at day 14 and 9 of the 12 bantam leghorn eggs were good., 1 had a funny shaped aircell so we kept...
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    Failed Hatch

    So feeling a bit dismal this morning after my first failed batch of pekin bantams, 5 showed development at day 7 and had grown by day 12 so I left them in. Day 23 and nothing from them at all. Float tested and 2 are possibly viable the others had got to about day 12ish and stopped. I've left...
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