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  1. thanderson

    Still not getting eggs

    Also we weren't sure if that would just stress them out
  2. thanderson

    Still not getting eggs

    We feed them a full 1 gallon mayo jar of pellet. Not sure on the egg eater. We've thought about leaveing them cooped up for a day or two but were afraid they may fight
  3. thanderson

    Still not getting eggs

    Alright so I'm gonna try and put all the info in here as possible. We built a new coop around October it's 16x8 and about 9ft tall, with 15 laying boxes, and a 5x6 roosting bar. There's 25 birds in there all are 1 year or older. We have tried everything we can think of/read and still aren't...
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    Birds randomly dieing

    The brooder is in the back of our coop. It's closed off to the big birds though so they can't get in and kill the chicks. As far as the ducks go they kinda range in age from weeks old to prolly about 3 months. None of them look nearly as big as the chicks though. Also there's only a handful 5-6...
  5. thanderson

    Birds randomly dieing

    We have a brooder that's about 4ft by 8ft for our chicks. Well here in the past 2 weeks we keep finding dead birds. The chicks are about 3 months old now and we let them into the run during the day and lock them up at night with a heat lamp since it's getting colder now. We cleaned out all the...
  6. thanderson

    Chicks dying with no feathers

    Today I've had 5 chicks (3-4 months old) just up and die. Some were in the middle of the brooder and some were in the corner. I'm guessing the ones in the corner died do to being cold possibly since it was first thing this morning. But when I found 2 this afternoon in the middle of the brooder...
  7. thanderson

    Turning eggs by tilting incubator???

    I read somewhere that another way to turn your eggs is to put them in a egg carton and elevate one side then the other. So we decided to try it and so far it's been working. Then I got thinking could I do the same thing but just with the incubator? That way it cuts down on the opening and...
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