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  1. darin367

    1 chicken dies every 2 weeks

    I am at a loss. a chicken dies about every other week for the last 3 months... I have treated with corid... treated with ivermectin pour on... treated with wazine.... i have owned chickens for 6 years and have never seen anything like this... they are mixed breeds, it's affecting all breeds...
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    Humidity question.. All dead..

    I havent hatched in a few years. I have a little giant still air incubator.. My hens are aging so I thought I'd hatch to replenish my flock... I set 35 eggs, candled at day 13, had 32 good eggs... Locked them down on day 18, they pipped on day 21, could hear chirping etc.. I only had 1 egg that...
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    So it's to cold for the chicks...

    1 of my hens hatched 5 chicks christmas day... Well today, 2 days later, she's got them outside in lower 40's degree weather, feels alot colder with the wind..... I started letting the hens take care of things a few years ago.. This is the 2nd year in a row we've had a christmas time hatch.. I...
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    6 week olds are dying

    I've got 13, 6 week old chicks... we hatched them.. they were on medicated feed for a month then moved to flock raiser.. they were doing fine... then yesterday, 1 of them got lethargic and died.. in an hour.... woke up this morning and another 1 dead.... we've raised chickens for years and never...
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    Dead chicken....Wormer help.... Wazene/ivermectin pour on

    Ive had a flock of 7 for a few years, no real problems, used ivermectin pour on in the past for mites/ worms...... got 3 new chicks in the summer, they grew up fine other than all 3 were roos.... my son also got a puppy this summer, and the chickens and dog co-mingle...... well the dog has round...
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    Time for a new rooster!!

    i'm giving up on my rooster bloodlines...... i started my flock in 08... had the nicest rooster ever.. he was great, his offspring were great.... then i had a coon attack that wiped out my flock.. so i hatched what eggs i had.. kept 2 roos out of that batch, both turned mean... hatched out some...
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    WOW a triple yolker......

    Yesterday i got a huge egg, cracked it for breakfast this morning and it's a triple........ i've had a few doubles in the last few years, but this is my first triple...........
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    My first rooster dinner

    after a coon attack last year i hatched out what eggs i had.. they were hatched around christmas, 9 hens 5 roos.... well i gave 3 roos away and kept 2.... i've never had a mean roo before, UNTIL NOW... so giving him chance after chance to mellow out we finally decided something had to be...
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    To young to breed

    I had to start over after a coon attack last winter.. My new flock was hatched christmas, so roughly 14 weeks old.. The 2 roos i kept started crowing last week and the flock leader started mating a hen this morning.... and yes, he knew what he was doing!!! This seems way to young for the hens.....
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    Opinions on sudden deaths

    i've never had a problem with sickness or disease and hope i never will.... but an aquantance of mine that i'm suppose to be giving some roosters to later this week is having a problem..... 2 weeks ago he found a hen dead in the coop, no trauma.. today he tells me he watched a hen, walk, fall...
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    Time to cull

    I've never had to cull before. Always let mother nature do it..... I had to restart my flock after a coon attack.. so i've got 5 week olds that just went to the coop out of brooder.. 1 of them had a broken leg that healed crooked.. she made it around the brooder o.k... but she's not gettin...
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    Broken leg

    i've got 13 chicks in the brooder that are 3 weeks old..... Just noticed yesterday 1 of them has a broken leg that has already set/healed. The foot is turned sideways. It stands, makes it to the food/water.. But it hobbles on it when it walks..... I say cull it now but my wife says if it lives...
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    Agriculture dept... Mail with threat

    Just got a mailing from the dept of agriculture.. on the front it informs me it is against the law not to respond... i open it up, they want to know how much livestock, horses, goats, and poultry i have.... how many meat birds, how many egg birds...... I can't believe our government is building...
  14. darin367

    So Eggcited

    My entire flock of 18 got killed last month by coons...... So I took the eggs I had in the fridge, some of them over a month. I was just hoping some would hatch so my flock would carry on.... Set 32 eggs, candled around 11 days, had 22 good ones going.... Then when my wife took them from the egg...
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    Didn't know weasels stink so bad

    After i lost my entire flock a couple weeks ago, i declared a varmit war.... so far i've got 5 possum, 1 coon and 2 weasels... first of all i didn't even know i had weasels around here... second, i guess when trapped they release some type of stink bomb.... almost smells like a skunk.... so the...
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    Didn't know we were that attached

    Coons wiped out the flock last week... My wife really took it hard, but the surprising thing to me, is how much i miss the little guys.... throwing the table scraps in the garbage is the tuffest time...... this week is more fencing, re-enforcing the coop etc... hopefully we'll get a good hatch...
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    First hatch after raccoon attack

    my entire flock was slaughtered the other day from coons.... yes we are trying to remedy the coop, took em 2 years to find a way in, thought we were secure..... anyway, my wife is devastated... we had enough fertile eggs, so we threw them in the bator.... it's been a couple years since i...
  18. darin367

    wich side up

    raccoons wiped my flock out last night... i had given up on incubating eggs and had been letting the hens do it.... my wife is devastated... so i got out the bator.. i have some fertile eggs from the flock, they've been washed, but i've hatched before with washed eggs... not a good hatch rate...
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    Flock massacred

    Didn't hear rudy this morning giving his daylight crow... Went out to the coop and all 15 are dead... I've been fighting off the coons for months, my fence is dug down into the dirt almost a foot. But they dug under it.... My wife is devastated.... Gonna spend the next few days pooring a...
  20. darin367

    Crafty Coons

    I've had coons testing the fortress for over a 5 months.. They've torn the tarp, tried a bit of going under the wire, scratched at doors etc.. I know there coons because the wife went out 1 night and there were 10 of them or so surrounding the coop..Also in the last 15 years we've had 4 or 5...
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