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    Its been more than 6 months and she has not started laying...

    Hello, I have a bantam cochin chicken, I got her in April when she was a few days old and have been raising her since. Last month she hit the six-month mark and I was expecting her to start laying. We did give her a few more of her own kind in September. We did a sort of decontamination period...
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    Phesants Sneezing.

    Hello, I have some pheasants that are sneezing between 3-5 times per minute. After they sneeze they keep their mouth open and shake their heads. They also have this gunk around their eyes. I am not sure what to do. I am thinking it could be gape mouth, but with the gunk around their eyes, I am...
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    Phesants Sneezing,

    Hello my pheasants started sneezing and I was wondering if it could be an infection, but I am not so sure. It has recently gotten cold up here so could they just have a little "cold".
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    Need help with eggs hatching under heat lamp? Does anyone have suggestions for keeping the temperatu

    Do you have an lce box or a styrofoam box? Something that can hold heat and humidity well?
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    Need help with eggs hatching under heat lamp? Does anyone have suggestions for keeping the temperatu

    I am also a newbie at hatching, just hatch 8 chicks this spring, I would say grab your incubator and put some water in it and put the temp at 105 and leave it closed for about 2 hours. This will let the water get in the air and put some moisture. You can leave the eggs under the heat lamp till...
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    Topic of the Week - When eggs go wrong

    I had gotten two weird eggs. The first time it was en egg with no shell just membrane and no yoke. I had gotten so scared that my favorite chicken had gotten sick, when I did some research I found out it was a wind egg and that a few of these were normal because she was a new layer. The second...
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    !!!!EMERGENCY!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO???

    My temp was 100.5 I had 6 that hatched well but ten when I moved them with 1 week old BO's and Austras 2 got smushed and 1 got stuck between two boxes and the silkies killed him so I have 3 that are fine. I thought that a yolk sac would be yellow not blood red.
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    Silkie Chick Care... too young to bathe?

    Could I use a bit of Dawn dish soap or is that to harsh? Also I hear everyone uses Ivory is there anything else we could use?
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    !!!!EMERGENCY!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO???

    I have always turned them by hand, always washing my hands before and after handling the eggs. I was not able to take a picture of the red thing but I found something like it but not exact the yellow here would be blood red and it was just dragging it. I had one before it and it had the same...
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    !!!!EMERGENCY!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO???

    I just checked on the one in the incubator and he has this red thing behind him what do I do??? Is he going to die, he was just fine like an hour ago what could have happened???? Please someone help me
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    !!!!EMERGENCY!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO???

    I came in this morning him and another two had diedI still have three had two hatch in the bator 1 had all his guts out so I culled him to not make him suffer and the other one is still in the bator, but when i took the empty shells out i saw something. There was this kind of white liquid at the...
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    !!!!EMERGENCY!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO???

    Hi I have a problem! I hatched 6 little pheasant chicks but that same day I got about 30 chicks. I put the peasants with them a day after they hatched thinking they will be fine. Next morning one is dead and the other one has something wrong with it's leg and does not like to move. I moved it to...
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    Silkie Chicks

    I got them from a breeder from the Kankakee Tri-K Pigeon & Bantam Club Pigeon fair. The guy I got them from was really nice let me pick my own and look at them. I check for pasty butt and all, but because they were only 5 days old when I got them and they were my first silkies I did not know...
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    Silkie thread!

    Hi there I just got 4 chicks that are six days old and their wing feathers are just starting to grow, but they look like normal feathers. I know that they might change, but I am concerned that I may have gotten ripped off. they have black beaks, skin, legs with feathers on them and five toes...
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    Tips/Advice for Raising Friendly Chickens

    You could depending how old they are. We have some almost 2 month olds and just got 6 day old silkies, so we put a bit of chicken wiring, but for the silkies they get the heat lamp. to separate the two ages so that they get use to each other. If you put them together without doing that the...
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    Silkie Chicks

    Hi there I just got 4 chicks that are six days old and their wing feathers are just starting to grow, but they look like normal feathers. I know that they might change, but I am concerned that I may have gotten ripped off. they have black beaks, skin, legs with feathers on them and five toes...
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    HELP!! What is Wrong?

    From what I read yes it is, but how do I fix it and also can he die from it?
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    HELP!! What is Wrong?

    This is the same one
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    HELP!! What is Wrong?

    Here are the pics his name is Night he is one of my nicest chicks. Also what breed is he?[/IMG] From my phone
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    HELP!! What is Wrong?

    Hi I have a four week old black chick that we got from tsc when he was little. he has a few other friends but lately he has been eating a lot more and more tired. he has this lump by the end of his neck and it is kind of squishy. We feed them Sprout chick starter feed, they have fresh water that...
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