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    Vaccination or no Vaccination that is the question

    We have always purchased chicks at our local farm store. I have assumed since they came from Cackle Hatchery they were vaccinated. We currently have 7 chicks hatching from these hens and I am wondering if I should try to get some vaccine today to vaccinate them? Do they have immunity from their...
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    Temperature drop to 78degrees F on day 17

    I was out of town overnight and my husband was taking care of the incubator. I just got home and the incubator was off, and when I plugged it back in the temperature, said seventy eight degrees. Is there any chance of survival? I have no way of knowing how long the incubator has been off.
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    10 week old chick eye injury.

    One of our 10 week old chick's has an injury to her eye. I was out of town and my husband left them in the coop all day with our older hens so we suspect she was pecked. The eye is open, cloudy, and swollen, looks filled with fluid. Husband rinsed it with saline as did I when we got home. This...
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    Chick with closed eyes quick cure

    We purchased some day old chicks this week and two had been pecked by other chicks and had their eyes closed. The first chicks eyes opened within a day as we were told would happen but after 4 days the second chick still had her eyes closed we had tried a warm damp cloth but that did not help...
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    need help chick looks like it's gasping for air

    Hi I posted yesterday about our new bantam that were dying off. We bought 2 on Thursday, one died by Friday morning. Thinking it was a freak thing or maybe a bigger chicken stepped on it we bought another Friday. By Friday afternoon the chick from Thursday died. Yesterday, we gave our survivor...
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    chick's dying

    Hi we have been raising chick's for years with never a problem. We bought several chick's a few weeks ago and they are great. Thursday we bought two bantam chick's and one died by Friday morning. We went and picked up another chicken yesterday to keep the remaining chicken company. Well, the...
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    Chick with bulbous pulpy looking eye blood pooling under skin, bloody

    I am new here, I did a search and didn't find quite what i am looking at here. Came home today to find dd's 8-12 week old ameracauna chick with a pulpy bulbous looking left eye. Closer look reveals what looks like blood pooling under the skin under her beak kind of where her chin would be if...
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