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    Our incubator works!

    YAY! My son Charlie and I have been looking @ all the homemade incubators and made one! We have had 70% hatch rate. I got a cooler box from the lab I work in, we get lab supplies delivered in them and then the coolers are set aside for the trash so I liberated one! Charlie cut an opening in the...
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    chick feed?

    Anyone tell me what's the best chick feed for my plymouths? They are 2 wks and have been on medicated starter w/the rest of our kinds of chicks. Any link to meat bird feed?
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    duckings eyes pecked by chick

    Help! My ducklings were in w/a chick, all hatched together, and either the ducks pecked eachother or i think the chick pecked them. I have three that have what looks like bulging eyes but i don't see iris or pupil, just yellow bulging. I applied antiobiotic opthalmic ointment and am trying to...
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    Garlic

    I recently read an article about using garlic mixed in w/ feed to help boost immunity in chickens. Anyone use this? Also I am thinking of adding rosemary to the nestin boxes as a pesticide. Anyone?
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    *Update/ Nugget

    OK, so I took the baby to a wonderful vet in Conover (if anyone around these parts needs one) and she said Nugget has a primary upper resapiratory infection- which I knew thanks to you guys and the organism chart! The bad thing is she developed a secondary yeast in her mouth/ throat- and that's...
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    dog run

    We have some of our chickens on a cement pad in a 10x10 kennel. We thought this old dog run would be great, we could just hose it down, but the reality is they need to be on the ground.. Does anyone know if I could put boards around the base with flashing maybe, and add that construction sand...
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    Hen W/frothy Eyes-sore In Mouth.

    GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE! i AWOKE THIS MORNING TO A HEN THAT HAS TWO FROTHY EYES AND IS SLINGING SALIVA. I OPENED HER MOUTH AND THE ROOF OF HER MOUTH HAS A SORE SWOLLEN WHITISH AREA ON HER PALATE. HER NOSE IS RUNNY. HELP!!!! THIS IS NUGGET OUR ORPHANED CHICK GROWING UP.
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    how cold can they tolerate?

    I read that peafowl cannot tolerate the cold well. What to heat their area with, and how chilly to use it? Is a snuggy area good enough? Would I use litter or would they eat that?
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    new auction peacock-PIC

    PIC ON MY PAGE help- we got a peacock last night at an auction- he looks like a heinz-57- beautiful fella. We have no info on this bird- not age not vax, nothin'. We need all and any advice. He is currently in our garage in a dog corral with a cover. Our chickens have been vax with ILT...
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    sex by color

    We have 3 wk old welsummers, and some were born dark chocolate almost with the blackish stripes, and some were born light tan with the black stripes. All have the dark back- they look like chipmunks to us! I read on someone's post that the hens are actually more colorful at hatching, and the...
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    Trade Welsummer/GameX roo-1yr-gentle

    Pic on my page. May call 704-502-7132. roo's name is Oscar. Has lived with another one of his kind, and has not shown any aggression and is protective of hens and has not pecked at any chicks. Will send you email pix.
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    Hens pecking over chicks

    1- One hen had 5 chicks hatch, one hen had 2 chicks hatch, one hen had 1 chick hatch- all are beautiful and seemingly healthy. 2- Do I need to separate the various mothers? They are starting to peck each other going after eye area, and I am worried enough to do a cage-in-pen, will they work it...
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    round 2

    well, we have 3 hens setting and 1 has 5 eggs pipping. we are nervous about getting our hopes up after what happened to the last batch- (snake at hatching time!). please pray with us that this will be a wonderful experience.
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    comb cutting

    Is there truth to it that cutting the comb from a rooster causes it to become more docile?
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    Oxine...

    Reading the bottle- do I get the masks needed at Lowe's or tractor supply or where??? Also- the website stated to spray the whole shabang, chickens and coop and floor, that it is safe, but the bottle says to remove the animals until dry, what's up?
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    Friends Forever???

    We moved our Americana's back inside for isolation, and now are ready to put them back out- they were in a pen with Wyandottes- all chicks that were together before- will they remember eachother or do we have to do it gradually? They are all about 2 1/2 mths.
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    droopy chicks part 2

    So- one the 2 roomates of our dead splash are + fo Eimeria cocci. I bought Sulmet at Southern States, it has been 24 hrs now. I am giving the Sulmet to all birds in every pen. I also received LT-Ivax, and am reading not to give it until the cocci tx is done. Any advice as to how long after...
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    How many Roos per Chicken

    How may roos can we have per chicken- we have 2 with 3 hens, but they don't fight, they "dance" and show off but don't peck at eachother. They were raised together since hatching.
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    Trimming nails...

    Am I supposed to trim chicks nails? Some are curving around. What kind of clippers to use?
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    New member

    Hello from North Carolina! We are new to chickens- got our 1st ones a yr ago. Am loving this website. Thanks for the advice and opinions and pix.
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