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    urgent - Niacin overdose?

    I have 6 3+ week old chicks. I hatched two goslings last night and was preparing to put the day old goslings in the brooder with the chicks. I got niacin powder supplement and completely misread the scoop size. I dosed my chicks with 180 GRAMS of niacin in their water. They drank almost most of...
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    Just hatched goslings- should I lower incubator temp?

    First Toulouse hatched about 3 hours ago and is mostly dry. Second just hatched 10 minutes ago. I'm going to leave them in the incubator overnight. Should I lower the temp to 90 degrees since that is what their brooder temp will be? Or should I wait until the second one dries off, then lower it...
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    White stringy)goopy discharge from cloaca

    My 10 month old black australorp hen is lethargic and has thick, white slimy discharge coming from her cloaca. This is a sudden onset. She seemed fine yesterday. Edit: a few minutes after I made the post, this came out of her cloaca. It is firm. Is it possible this is a malformed egg? Or part...
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    Yolk still outside of body. To tie off/cut or not to tie off/cut?

    I put a tiny safety hole in her egg because when candled she appeared malpositioned. I noticed that the incubator smelled horribly afterwards. Later I could see that she internally pipped. After a 30 hours with no attempt to external pip, I made an external pip where here beak was. After 24...
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    German Scientist discovers how to sex eggs on Day 3 FIVE YEARS AGO.

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkx5jq/a-scientist-has-figured-out-how-to-determine-chickens-sex-before-they-hatch This is the first I am hearing about it, but the discovery was made five years ago. I do see in 2018 companies were still vying to create a machine to sell to hatcheries to...
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    Day old chick spasming, lethargic

    Greetings. I had a malpositioned cream legbar chick that pipped only, and i slowly fully assisted the rest of the hatch. In the 10 hours since she hatched, she has made no effort to move, except for what looks like fidgetting or spasms. You can also see she is opening and closing her mouth...
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    5 wk old black australorps not growing feathers plus weird buldge

    Video: Fed 18% starter/grower. No treats except for occasional cooked egg. Hatched from shipped eggs from meyer with 4 Buff Orpingtons. BOs have normal feather development. Both 5 wk old BAs only have a couple of feathers on each wing and their down is thinning. They look like they are...
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    4 week old nearly featherless, yellow comb black australorps (suspected cockerels)

    Greetings, i suspect these are both cockerels but would like your opinion. These were hatching eggs from Meyers hatchery. I have gotten male and female black australorps before from Cackle and the males usually feathered a bit slower than the females most notably in the tail feathers. The male...
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    Do i Have 3 cockerels?

    6 weeks old Chick 1: Cashew 75% EE / 25% BO Thick legs, , developed pink comb, top of pecking order Chick 2: Calliope 75% EE / 25% BO Very docile, smaller light pink/yellow comb Chick 3: Richard Feynman 25% EE / 25% BO / 50% Golden Comet hybrid Docile, smaller light pink/yellow comb Here...
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    Quarantining a guard gosling (and misc questions)

    I just got a 2 month old Toulouse female goose yesterday to serve as a guardian goose. I have no other waterfowl. Right now she is in quarantine, but it about 30 ft away from the chickens and can see them. 1. How long should she be quarantined? Is it shorter because of less potential disease...
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    Free ranging with livestock as predator protection?

    Greetings! I just spoke with a regenerative ag farm manager. He said that he uses almost no feed, but rather day free ranges his chickens with his livestock for predator protection. He said that the chickens run under the livestock if they see any sky predators and that the ground predators stay...
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