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    Help. Breast blister or bulging crop?

    I am hoping someone has some wisdom to pass along to me. I have cornish cross in a tractor that gets moved once or twice a day to fresh grass. They are only a week or two from being processed. Today i noticed that most of them have huge bulging crops. I looked closer and noticed what looks like...
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    Caponizing- teaching ourselves. Video and pictures.

    here is a video of my husband and i teaching ourselves to caponize.
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    quail stopped laying abruptly

    Hoping someone has come accross this. I have 4 individual quail pens all side by side in a row. Each pen has 1 male and 4 female. I have been getting almost an egg from each hen every day. Went out to gather eggs about 6 days ago, and in one of my pens, there were no eggs. And there havent been...
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    silkie chick dying? video

    Here is a link to a video of my chicken. It puts its head down and backs itself into a corner, puts it butt up in the air falls over and has a hard time getting up, but just about a half hour ago it was drinking a bit of water. No diarrhea, no bloody poo. Separated it from the other chicks. Any...
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    sick chick ???whats wrong????

    I have a Salmon Faverolle chick about 5 weeks old. Pretty sure it is a pullet. She is lathargic, eyes closed, breathing heavily and feathers are puffed out a bit. She is just laying there breathing hard with her eyes closed. Havent seen her eat or drink...shows no interest in even opening her...
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    male quail scalped and missing an eye

    tonight I discovered one of our male quail has been scalped and has an eye missing. I do have several males altoghether in a pen with about 20 females. I am suspecting one of two things. 1. other males pulled his feathers out and pecked him until it is just scalp. Skull with a thin layer of...
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    male quail scalped and missing an eye

    tonight I discovered one of our male quail has been scalped and has an eye missing. I do have several males altoghether in a pen with about 20 females. I am suspecting one of two things. 1. other males pulled his feathers out and pecked him until it is just scalp. Skull with a thin layer of...
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    hen pecking her toe till bloody

    Hi have a chick, she is 6 weeks old. She was in a brooder pen with 6 others, all Delawares. They began picking at one of her toes, drew blood and so I seperated her. Put her in a wire cage right next to them. I put blu-kote on it which has always worked in the past with my other chicks. But i...
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    adding eggs to incubator midway thru

    Hi, I am getting 4 Black Copper Marans eggs today and don't want to wait very long to put them in the incubator. Last time I had 2 and I waited 7 days to put them in the incubator because I was waiting to get more fertile eggs from another breeder. They didnt hatch. I heard someone somewhere...
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    Help! Incubator Temp

    Oooooh anyone with wisdom...please share it with me. My first incubator is a Little Giant. I have two thermometers in it, along with 17 eggs. One thermometer on the egg turning racks, holds steady at 99.5. I put the second thermometer, which is the exact same ( it was in the box the egg turner...
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    Chicken coughing up blood. please give wisdom.

    My favorite girl,Nacho our pet has been a bit wheezy for about 5-6 days, then started coughing. Yesterday I quarantined her and another chicken, from the rest of the flock. Started giving her Duramycin yestereday. Brought them inside for the night, and today when I took them out to their...
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    Hen empties nest and egg broke when dropping

    Hi, I have wood shavings AND straw in our four nest boxes, but one hen goes into each one and scratches all the shavings and hay to the side so there is a perfectly bare wood bottom. She does this in every box. Today we got her first egg and it had a beautiful perfect hole right in the end...
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    Blk Australorp found. Roo or hen?

    A family moved over the weekend and opened their coop door and let all their chickens loose. This chicken was found wandering around T-Mobile. It looks like a blk Australorp to me, with feathers that have a green and purple tint in the sunlight. It has amber eyes, rather than dark eyes. I don't...
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