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    my wit's end with sick chicken

    I have a chicken that is about 4 months old. It has never been real stealthy. It was outside with a couple others it's age and appeared to be doing ok. It would run out to me begging for food although it had chick crumbles, layer feed, mash and scratch. I never thought much of it. Then I noticed...
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    Toe attached by tendon only, to cut or not? (Gross toe pics, beware)

    This morning I noticed one of my hens limping around and upon closer inspection noticed one of her toe ends rotated and covered in dried blood. She either got a toe hung up in the fence somehow and completely severed the skin and broke the bone, or somehow stayed close enough to a horse to get...
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    hen going bald, please HELP...pics

    This hen started to develop these strange feathers in very late winter. I can not see any mites or any other parasite but fully dusted her with DE anyway, along with all the other hens in the coop. No other hens have been affect. She is a 2 yo silver laced Wyandotte that has not been laying (she...
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    need help with wafer wiring??

    Has anyone taking the electronic thermostat switch off the LG and installed a wafer using the existing LG electronic switch? Does that make any sense?? I have an LG that has a faulty electronic thermostat and I want to install a wafer control. The problem is that I have just the wafer disc and...
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    Proof of thieving Magpies!!

    Here is one pic of a magpie in the chicken coop picking up the egg and one of the magpie entering the chicken coop. I have the chicken coop in a closed up run with a door I open every morning for them to free-range. If you notice each of these pics are taken on different days. I wondered why I...
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    anyone know of a way to check outlet power supply

    I tried hatching something like 6 dozen eggs, all at different times, from different sources using all types of techniques and finally decided after a very high temp spike that the bator is bad. But.... could it be my outlet power? Everything else I plugged in worked normally, but I was not...
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    advise on combining two small flocks together

    I have one flock of 3 pullets and one roo that are about 4 1/2 months old and a flock of 6 pullets that are about 2 1/2 months old. The small flock free ranges during the days and the larger flock and a large run. The run is in the area the small flock goes in so these guys all see each other...
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    the harm one skunk can do, even if not to chickens

    http://www.daily-times.com/ci_18568052 Nine people exposed to rabid Roosevelt County-dog [1:55 p.m.] osted: 07/28/2011 01:53:56 PM MDT A dog in Portales was attacked by an aggressive skunk in early July. Last week the dog died from rabies. The New Mexico Department of Health is warning pet...
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    what strange things have your chicks ate???

    I noticed my chicks started pulling up the newspaper on the bottom of the brooder then running around with it while the other girls chased after for a bite. I think they were really eating it! So now what? Will they digest the paper? I think I seen one of them with an old cigarette butt in her...
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    quitter at lock down, thick yoke - huge air cell

    Out of the two dozen I received 2 made it to lock down. On the 19th day I could smell one of the eggs from outside the room the bator is in So I had to open the bator to find out which egg smelled. I took each one out of the top window to smell, took the bad egg out (which was too dark to...
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    how to make a sticky?

    I found a link that answers a LOT of questions about shipping live animals and think it would make a great sticky. Here is the link to the thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26202&p=1 so who so I talk to about making this something more accessible? It answered many...
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    I posted in "Wanted", will be in central TX

    Please look at my Wanted posting for eggs or chicks. I posted here just to get a little more .... "networking" Thanks
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    chickens - I will be in central TX

    I will be in Gatesville, TX June 3 - 5 for graduation and would like to see if I could find some young chicks or hatching eggs to bring back home with me. I am interested in; Welsummer Light Sussex Barnevelder FBC Marans Wyandotte although there are other breeds I like in addition to that...
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    could the USPS be ex-raying my eggs?

    Out of something like 7 dozen eggs set in 4 different hatches I have not had ONE hatch!! NOT ONE Yes from time to time I have had some problems with temp and humidity, but from what I have read on here it should not have been enough to damage all eggs that are set. Many times when I first...
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    why does temp drop when water added??

    I added hot water to my bator trays and the temp dropped nearly 10 degrees. I don't know how long it was that low, but it has me worried now. It may have been for a complete night that the temp was down. I made sure the water was warmer than the bator, I used a syringe and tubing to add the...
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    Anyone hatching in the Southwest? How's your humidity?

    I have been reading everyone's topics and the replies about humidity and where to keep it. Living in the SW, that is very difficult and so I was hoping for ideas for the humidity level and how to keep it there for people that live in very dry climates. My last hatch (or lack of) I think my...
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    Has anyone tried using the heating element in the bottom of the bator?

    Would it be too far-out to modify an LG to be used upside-down? So the heat would rise and with an installed fan to blow warm air back down towards the eggs? Would this not work better for proper heating of the incubator? Please any ideas or suggestions, just not to toss out the LG and get a...
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    I didn't know how depressing egg hatching could be!!

    I started with 23 eggs. Today is lockdown and I have 7 eggs left. Some were duds, many just quit; two bloodrings, a couple eggs looked scrambled and the others quit This is frustrating and pretty darn depressing. Makes you feel like your a bad egg-mommy When I candled the scrambled eggs, I...
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    Need some directing to understand breeds and breeding..

    I am new to this chicken raising stuff and I find the range of colors chickens come in to be just amazing never knew there were so many colors. I am hatching some eggs from various breeds now so I can have a colorful flock. What I would like to know is where can I find information explaining...
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    raise the humidity with wet piece of wood???

    Living in the Southwest I have problems raising the humidity in my bator. Last batch of eggs dried out so bad, nothing hatched. I have a LG still air and for this hatch I have been keeping the channels in the bottom full of water, this has kept my humidity around 40% +/- . When lock down comes I...
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