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    Spraddle Leg Fix!

    I just wanted to pass along some helpful information that might help anyone with Coturnix quail suffering from spraddle / splay leg. My wife started doing this process and it worked out amazingly! Any chicks within 3 days old, put in a cardboard egg carton (bottom only with no top) inside...
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    Moving Quail Outside Questions

    Our brooder is inside right now as it's winter and Michigan has been bitter cold this year. I've build my Coturnix a nice hutch that's in my pole barn right now. I would love to move them into it (and keep the hutch inside until spring) but I don't want them to freeze. When would be a good...
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    Mini Potbelly Pig Farrowing ???

    Hello everyone! We're fairly certain that one of our female pigs is going to farrow within the next few weeks. All of the signs are there. We raise just about everything, but this is our first time with pigs! Currently she's in with 3 others pigs, 1 female and 2 males. They all get along...
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    Best type of medium duck to get?

    Hello everyone! I'm looking at replacing all my chickens with ducks (tired of chickens) and we already have a ton of call ducks, as well as a few runner crosses. I was looking at getting a mix of buffs, cayugas, and swedish. I would LOVE Appleyards, but they seem nearly impossible to find...
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    Help! Losing Feathers!!! Not a molt!

    Help help! I have about 10 chickens (out of 20+) that are about 70% naked due to feather loss. It's not a molt, as these are less than a year old. It's not picking, but I'm not sure what is going on. They're losing feathers on their neck, thighs, chest, and completely around their vent...
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    Call Duck questions

    Hello everyone! Well as I am the resident chicken keeper, my roommate has decided to get a handful of call ducks. I've never raised them before, and I was curious if they would stay penned inside a run made of 2 x 4 welded wire. I had thought of running chicken wire around the bottom to try...
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    Call Duck run question!

    Hello everyone! Well as I am the resident chicken keeper, my roommate has decided to get a handful of call ducks. I've never raised them before, and I was curious if they would stay penned inside a run made of 2 x 4 welded wire. I had thought of running chicken wire around the bottom to try...
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    Live Brooder Webcam!

    Well my chicks finally hatched 2 days ago. Out of 40 eggs, I had 30 hatch, so I'll take 75%. And just because I'm a giant geek (corporate geek actually!) I decided to live stream my camera from inside my brooder. They are all black australorp mixes (with some RIR, light brahma, BR, and...
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    Towel in Incubator?

    Hi! I just have a real quick question. I'm rapidly approaching day 18 on my still air incubator and I've read that I should put down cheese cloth underneath the eggs now. Do I have to use cheese cloth or have you guys used anything else like towels underneath the eggs before they hatch...
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    Getting back to regulated temp

    Well happy Sunday to you all! I need some answers from some EGGsperts (har har!) I recently put my eggs in the incubator, which I have had regulated for several days now. It's been 12 hours and the temperature has been rising back up to where it was.... almost. My question is: How long...
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    Still Air Incubator Humidity

    I was wonder what the humidity should be in my OLD Brower Still Air Incubator? I don't have eggs in it yet, as I'm trying to regulate the temp / humidity. It seems to be bouncing between 55% and 40%. Also, and I would LOVE some help on this one, there is 4 small vent holes (about the size...
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    Brower Model 846 - First attempt!

    Hello everybody! This is my first time attempting to incubate eggs from scratch! (pun intended...) My father has raised chickens since I was a child, and loaned me his Brower Model 846 100 egg incubator which he purchased before I was born. I had a couple of questions regarding it: 1) Does...
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