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  1. daystardoberman

    Something is killing my chicks

    I just got an order of 25 chicks. They're in a brooding pen, 7 feet long 3 feet wide. Standard hardware cloth sizes, open bottom, and I have netting over the top, and I secure it with boards and a piece of sheet kettle for the big hens to roost on. .. They're 2 weeks old. Last week, there were...
  2. daystardoberman

    2 broody hens in one nest

    One of my easter egger hens went broody on me. As she sat on her eggs, a white leghorn decided to "help". So for 2 of the 3 weeks, they were either one or the other or both in there. I hear peeping so I know they're hatching. It's really crowded in there, and I know some eggs won't be hatching...
  3. daystardoberman

    My hens stopped laying 😟

    I have 30 or so assorted hens, some a year and a half, some 8 months old. They were laying just fine, but early mid July the older girls went into a molt. I was down to 4 eggs a day. A month ago they started up, I was to 10 eggs a day then out of the clear, they just *bam* completely stopped...
  4. daystardoberman

    OMG an egg actually hatched!

    From my plastic crate broody hen. But how long will she protect this baby from the rest of the flock? Or should I take him up and put him in a brooder? Do the eggs all hatch on the same day, or should I expect a few more hatchlings? This is my first hatching sucess.....although I've never tried...
  5. daystardoberman

    How can you tell if eggs have fetus in them

    I have that broody hen. However, another hen is getting in the box and laying eggs, too. So I gathered up all the eggs. But how can I tell if they have developing chicks? I used a super bright flashlight, some you can see through, some seem solid, so I took those back to the nest. They weren't...
  6. daystardoberman

    Will these hatch?

    I have plastic crates, milk type, that one of my hens got broody in. It's on the dirt floor of their cooper in a cozy corner. But there's very little nesting material in it. She's doing a good job sitting, she's all puffed out on top and hasn't gotten out of there. Got upset when I tried to take...
  7. daystardoberman

    when is it safe to eat eggs after amprolium

    my vet says a week but I want to be sure. He eats them he says bring them to me, but don't give them or sell them to anyone else, just in case. At least he won't have cocci
  8. daystardoberman

    HELP! Baby chicks dropping dead for no apparent reason

    I got a shipment of 18 baby chicks from cackle******** 3 weeks ago. Everything's been fine and the friend that split the clutch with me took hers home Sunday night. 2 days later, one of my remaining ones was dead for no apparent reason, and one died sometime today, They are in the same pen from...
  9. daystardoberman

    my Roo won't walk

    I have a production Red roo that has for some time, lost his outer feathers from the mid back down, he isn't bald, he has down feathers, no tail. Only Roo, Gold Sex link hens that don't bother him. Today, I went to feed, and he was sitting, like a hen on eggs kind of sitting. Never seen him do...
  10. daystardoberman

    raising baby chicks temp question

    My shipment arrived today and I have a question.. They are in a box with shavings 4 ft by 4 ft 2 ft high. In a spare bedroom. In the rest of the house I use window units, not central a/c and this room does NOT have a window unit and the day time temp in the room is 90 maybe 95 because the window...
  11. daystardoberman

    PESTS IN THE COOP--hanging the feeder vs. setting on the floor

    I made a late night visit to the coop the other night and there was a mouse in the feeder. I've been setting it on the floor of the coop, but maybe I should hang it? How high off the ground is right? and I also have sparrows "dropping" in for some free dinner too. Any advice?
  12. daystardoberman

    oh yikes a strong cold front came through. Worried about my chickens

    I live in North Texas and a very strong cold front just came in. The temps dropped from 70 and are expected to go into the low 30's overnight. I have 13 spring chickens all laying and doing well, and 8 12 week old chicks that are incorporated in the flock and doing well, eating well, staying...
  13. daystardoberman

    Best way to incorporate new chicks to the flock

    Without a huge disaster. I have a converted feed room as the coop with a separate nesting room. The feed room opens into a pen about 400 square feet. The feed room is 10 x 10. nest room is 10x5 with metal nest boxes I bought second hand. So my flock is doing well, but with the trial and error...
  14. daystardoberman

    ok..I found all my eggs.Are they good?

    LOL My hens ARE laying. I found a whole cache of eggs behind some stuff. They couldn't have been there more than a week. I put them in a bucket of water and none of the eggs are floating. They're all down on the bottom. Sinkers. I know on store boughts that's how to tell if they're ok to eat...
  15. daystardoberman

    Why did my hens stop laying?

    I think I did a boo boo. My hens were all spring chickens, hatched in March. I was getting about 10 eggs a day from 16 hens. I'm down to 3-5 eggs now. I ordered some chicks and brooded them in my bathroom for 3 weeks then put them in the coop, which is a converted feedroom. The chicks are in an...
  16. daystardoberman

    Ok. I guess I have to do this.

    Hi everyone. I've been raising Dobermans for 9 years now and I wanted my dogs to have the best nutrition, so I decided to add eggs to their diet. Silly me I thought raising chickens would be cheap and easy...It is easy, but lol, not cheap, but now I'm hooked. I converted and old stall and corral...
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