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also, i checked out the link and no, it doesn't appear to be a worm. It was a rubber like substance that was inside his eyelid and covered his whole eye. His eye is open today, after getting the stuff out of it last evening, but his eye still looks clouded...

Hi, thanks for your reponse! I was so confused when I saw you say something about mice, then realized i typed in MICE instead of MITES! No worries though. :) Have you used Poultry Nutri-Drench? I was reading that it could give them a pretty quick boost. If I can get him to be better...

Just noticed that my BR Rooster "Rocky" that is about 22 weeks old and his penmate "Hershey" a chocolate Orpington had an infestation of mice and lice. Recently we noticed lots of Rocky's feathers in the pen, The 2 don't fight or pick at each other, they always stay by each others side at almost...

BTW-forgot to say, that i have an 8ft by 16 ft coop for my laying hens, everything is the same but it's bigger, I'm not sure the coop is the problem, but I wanted to give everyone the big picture, thanks!

not sure what is happening at all. Hatched 15 baby chicks, and at 12 weeks I only now have 4 left. 1 died of an injury at only a couple of weeks old, but the rest have died suddenly at different times since then. Have been putting vitamin powder in their water on and off, along with apple...

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Great news! of the 15 fertile eggs I put in the incubator, all 15 hatched, including my sinker! I did lose one little Ameraucana baby 2 hours after it hatched, not sure what happened there, but all of the rest of them are healthy and peeping up a storm. Thanks for the advice and so glad I left...

gosh, how sad for you as well! She is drinking the vitamin water as I hold her and dip her beak in it. I'm not there today, so my son is on Silkie nurse duty!

thank you so much, I will read into it. She was just laying on her side this morning, not in a weird position like she was yesterday, but not moving much. I appreciate your help!

I need some help. I let my Silkie and her 4 coop friends out to free range on Friday and she was fine. Saturday when my son went to let them out he said that the Silkie was walking like she was drunk and couldn't stand up without tipping over and catching herself with her wing. I went out...

I can attest to that stmt. I was unable to have children and adopted a boy. He is now almost 16. He was 7 when we adopted him, was from a neglect and abuse situation, so dealing with those initial teachings have been difficult to overcome, but we work on it every day. Bless you for not...

hi Sally, thanks for the welcome! I only water candles the 2 I had questions on, the others I saw movement on when I candles with the Brinsea Ovascope. I have the Brinsea Mini Advance incubator. No humidity reading and I didn't add another thermometer to check.. it's small and kinda hard to find...

Great, I feel better knowing I left it in. I appreciate the response!

isn't that the truth! We currently have 7 in an 8x16x8 coop wrapped in hardware cloth. Built a cover in the back around the roost, sand boxes for bathing, and a pole with multi levels of roosts for enjoyment during the day. Not to mention the darn chicken swing that they won't get on...lol...

We had a power outage during my current (1st) hatch at 5 days in from 6:50 pm to 7:30 am the next morning. We didn't have a UPS. I have a Brinsea Mini Advance so it's too small to put water bottles in like I have read others do. I realized I had one of those portable car battery jump...

Sorry, I meant to say that...nesting boxes in one area, roosts in another...my fault for not making that clear :)

Thanks everyone for the replies. I hope everything turns out well in the hatch. Of the 15 , I have 4 Ameraucanas, 4 Delaware, 4 Barred Rock and 3 Black Australorps. I was expecting only an 80 to 90% hatch, but so far I'm at 100% (if you don't count the infertile egg that was discarded). Good...

thanks so much..ironically, I had just found that group! :) Thanks!

Hey everyone, pretty new to chickens (March 2016 bought my first batch of 1 and 2 week olds) and now I am just in lockdown phase of incubation of 15 eggs. Bought 16 from a local farm, turned out 1 was infertile, but all others have been growing steadily. When candling last night before placing...

Thanks for your response, although the float test is also used in hatching. Have read quite a few threads on it, but none answered my exact type of question. Thanks again!