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    Pheasant chick curled toes struggling to walk

    I have a white pheasant chick who can walk but is walking with her toes on both feet curled under her feet. I have attempted to make her little sandals and tape her toes flar, this initially helped but she ended up getting the tape stick to then puppy pad she is on and I ended up having to cut...
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    Put late hatching chick with other chicks in brooder, they attacked her now she's falling over and.not using one leg much.

    This chick hatched 48 hours after all the others, I let her stay in the incubator for 24 hours then attempted to put her in the brooder with the others, they immediately attacked her, she is now falling over when she attempts to stand up and walk. She can move the leg. I immediately took her...
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    Feeding Newly Hatched Chicks Raw Egg

    I recently had 2 poorly chicks and it was suggested to me to feed them raw egg yolk to try and pick them up. Now hatching out of an egg is hard work and stressful. What I am considering is whether it may be beneficial to chicks once they start eating and drinking is to feed them raw egg for a...
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    Draining ascites

    I have heard several people talking about draining ascites. I'm just wondering if any of you actually do this yourselves and if so how? I don't have a poorly hen but if the time arises and this is an option for me then I would like to have the necessary knowledge and equipment to do so. We...
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    Where do I find a good step by step article on butchering a chicken please?

    I need a good step by step article including pictures of exactly where to cut as the books I have are pretty vague and have no decent diagrams or pictures. I only cull our extra cockerels or old birds that have stopped laying but I would like to breed a few meat birds asweĺl. My son usually...
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    Sick Chick Emergency please help

    I incubated 6 chicks from online bought eggs. All developing fine. Took them out to candle at day 17 before lockdown, shells had deteriorated so much picking them up broke their shells. I mended as best I could and incubated them separately to my other eggs. One egg hatched. Chick looked...
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    Sick Chick Advice please

    I bought some eggs online and incubated them, on day 17 they seemed to be developing fine and I took them out to candle them ready for lockdown. My finger went through 4 of the 6 shells showing a possible drastic calcium deficiency in the hens who laid the eggs. I repaired the shells the best...
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    I took my eggs out of the incubator on day 18 for lockdown to remove turning rollers and my finger went through the shell on three of them.

    I am now panicking. I was preparing for lockdown and three of the eggs shells were like paper. My finger went through three of the shells. It is just into day 18. Two of them the internal membrane was breached aswell. I set up an incubator I had free, cranked the humidity upto 75% and am...
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    New Member

    Hi there, i',m Sue a new member. I'm 46, first kept chickens as a child as pets. I had several years living where I could not keep any but a few years back I felt the urge again and started with a few rescue hens before starting incubating my own, which is an addiction I find. You àlmost become...
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