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    Day 8 free floating chick!??

    I have never seen this before in any of my hatches. It’s day 8 so I’m doing my weigh in and marking air sacks. Well I noticed no veins near the air sack. So I moved my light around and I can see veins in the yolk area, and movement. So the chick is still alive however any movement of the egg and...
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    When to worry for ducks?

    I have my first external pip for my ducklings! It pipped last night at 10pm, it is now 2:30pm. Unfortunately I can’t tell if the membrane was pierced. Little one is still wiggling around but no pushing against the shell. So still absorbing the yolk. But when do I get worried and make sure the...
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    Duck with bumblefoot? On TOP of foot?

    Hi a couple days ago I noticed my Pekin had a swollen foot. Upon closer inspection I realized it looked like bumblefoot with a solid infection in the mass. However it is on top of her foot not the bottom. I gave her a nice soak got out as much of the infection as I could at the time and wrapped...
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    Hatching ducks days 21 weigh in

    Ok so I’m on day 21 of hatching duck eggs. I have 4 magpie cross eggs and 7 Pekin cross eggs. Mommas are the magpie and Pekin, drakes were either black Swedish or khaki Campbell. Well my eggs have amazing growth, almost 100% blacked out and good movement. However I’m worried they haven’t lost...
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    Magpie cross w/ BS or KC

    So I am currently incubating duck eggs. 5 of them were laid by my magpie hen. I have 2 drakes, a black Swedish and a khaki Campbell. My magpie is not breed standard, so I’m not 100% sure she is purebred but believe she is as she matches a few of the magpies I have seen pictures of from both the...
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    RIR roo and Cali White hen cross cockrel?

    So back in August I did a hatch. I wing sexed all my chicks as soon as they dried. I know this method isn’t 100% accurate. Well so far it seems to have been pretty accurate, my chicks were a staggered hatch as some were taken from a hidden nest under a shed that no chicken was sitting on and...
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    When is best time to collect duck eggs to incubate?

    One of my 3 females has been laying for about 6-8 weeks now. My young males started breeding her about 4 weeks ago. They are now mating the other two as well who have not started laying yet but are due to start any time now. The oldest girl was hatched Valentines Day, the two younger were...
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    Is this egg going to hatch early?

    so I started my eggs on 8/13. They aren’t due to hatch until late Sunday early Monday. But this one just had the egg pocket drop a ton. I candle daily and it wasn’t like this yesterday. Brown line was on Sunday. Should I take this one off the turner and raise humidity now? Or wait until tomorrow...
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    Chick with broken leg? Or slipped tendon?

    My 2 day old chick has had issues since she hatched. She is super strong and a fighter! But I really want to help her if I can. Her leg is now swollen and red! It looks like she pecked the joint area a bit. Is her leg broken? What can I do to help? Please do not say it is splayed legs. It’s...
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    Badly bloated chick!

    Please help! This chick just hatched 2 hours ago. It’s belly is so round it can’t get its legs under itself. It’s struggling and trying. I was worried it didn’t know how to use its bowels yet as I know this happens in other new born animals. I have some veterinary training so I treated it like a...
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    Law of 3s and chicken math..(long read )

    So you know that saying all things come in 3s? Well last weekend I mentioned to my in laws if we wanted to incubate eggs this year at all it had to be started by September 1st, because we go on vacation during Thanksgiving week so chicks need to be moved to my in laws by then. So we start to...
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    Raising hatchlings outdoors

    Ok so I live in Texas with this heatwave. Our lows are currently high enough to be like a brooder. So I’m thinking about buying a cage/mini run to set up inside my large fenced in duck run as it has great shade. I will still have a heater set to a thermostat for nights. But I wanted to get...
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    Hatching chicks and using a Roos as meatbirds

    Ok so I have a broody hen under a shed and unreachable, so I can’t check how many eggs she is sitting on. I also have some eggs in an incubator. At this point we already have 2 Roos and can’t add any more. So the plan is as soon as we know any of the chicks are Roos to separate them and treat...
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    Found eggs under shed need help!

    Need help please! I tried to ask on the Facebook group and got ignored. Went to my in laws yesterday and they told me one of their chickens had gone missing recently. When I asked which one and they said the fat tan one.. I instantly knew we had a hiding broody hen. Well I went out searching...
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    Introducing new ducks to bonded pair.

    Hi so all my ducks are still very very young. My oldest 2 are exactly 2 months old and very strongly bonded. Like they can’t be more than 5 feet away from each other without full blown panic setting in. I also have 2 4 week old and 3 2 week old ducklings all in the brooder together that get...
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    The unspoken dangers of pets

    I have so many stories of keeping a variety of pets. I’m sure you all do too! Since I have a good one today I’ll start and I’d love to hear yours! So today I get up at 7am as usual. Get myself dressed I even put socks and shoes on which I never do in the mornings! So overall I’m feeling good...
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    Can I feed back this soft shelled egg?

    One of my EEs laid her first egg and it was a soft shell. Its pretty sturdy but they did push it out of the nest onto the floor. Can I cook it up and feed it back to them or should I just toss it?
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    Hens all want the same nesting box!

    I have 3 nesting boxes and my hens fluff up all three til they are content, but they only lay in one! And all my hens like this same one!! My BO gets especially angry when she has to wait her turn. I’m sure people can hear her a mile away! Is there anything I can add to my run to entertain her...
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    Who laid this greenish egg??

    My in laws sent me a picture of the eggs they got from their flock today. We are totally stumped as to which chicken laid this greenish egg! I bought and raised their chickens until they were 10 weeks old. They have 3 Cali Whites, an EE who lays the green blue egg, a RIR rooster, lastly they...
  20. Violanna

    From chicken math to duck math!

    Went to TSC for a couple things today. Had two of my kids with me so of course we checked if they had any chicks to coo over… and lo and behold all they had left was 3 ducklings. I just couldn’t leave them there all alone! So meet my new blue Swedish Cheese(large) and Quakers(small) and my Khaki...
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