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I have a cabinet incubator that I was told was a GQF, but I think it's actually a homemade one. It needs a new heating element, but I'm having a hard time finding one that's long enough. I've ordered 2 different ones already that were too short, and smaller in diameter than the original...

This boy is slated for the freezer eventually. He's not quite a year old and I think he has mycoplasmosis. Is it ok to butcher him now, or will his meat be tainted? He eats and drinks just fine, but he doesn't display at all, or even elongate his snood. He probably doesn't feel great either. I'd...

I recently got my first incubator, an Incuview. I first set turkey eggs, and they started hatching 3 days early, several pipping the wrong end. Out of 20 developed eggs, 10 hatched. A couple pipped and then died, and the rest died without pipping. One of the poults died shortly after hatching...

This morning something, possibly a fox or coyote, attacked and killed a couple hens, and injured my turkey hen. I cleaned and disinfected the wounds well, and then bandaged her neck with manuka honey on the wounds. However, she does not seem to be able to lift her head up, and has a hard time...

My poults were due to hatch on Sunday, but this morning some of them were pipping already, 3 days early! I turned off the egg turner and increased humidity immediately. It's been about 12 hours since the first eggs pipped. The first egg that pipped died, but the 3rd and 4th hatched out just fine...

I am starting the process of changing our neighborhood covenants to allow small livestock. I am trying to come up with reasons that will convince people about how wonderful it is to have chickens and other poultry nearby. Please help me think of as many reasons as possible! Here is what I have...

I've had chickens for almost 3 years now, and we are up to 16 after starting with 6. Yesterday, I received this message from a neighbor: "I am trying to work and your chickens are making quite a bit of noise; they are disturbing me. The neighborhood covenants clearly say we are not allowed to...

My production red has not been using her left leg for about 3 days. I have inspected it, and can't find any visible injuries or differences between her good leg and her bad one. Her feces appears normal, and I don't see any other abnormal symptoms on her. She is about 1 1/2 years old and is...