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  1. megolson

    Merging young flock with old

    How about working ducks into the mix? I have seven golden sex-linked hens, one-month-old, and three little Khaki Campbell ducklings, two weeks old, that I've kept in separate brooders while the ducks bulked up, but now the duckies are getting huge and I want them in the larger brooder with more...
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    pasted up chick, blood at the vent, how can I help her?

    You asked for it. Close up of sick chick butt. Help?
  3. megolson

    pasted up chick, blood at the vent, how can I help her?

    It sure looks like blood, but even more like sort of her insides poking out... I took a pic but now am trying to figure out how to post it!
  4. megolson

    pasted up chick, blood at the vent, how can I help her?

    Chicks are 48 hours old now. We lost two from the shipment on the first night, apparently just from stress. Two chicks were pasted up in the morning and I soaked their booties with a warm wet cloth and managed to loosen most of the poo though but I think they lost some down in the process, but...
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    new chicks won't sleep, one has died!

    They have a cool and a warm side to the brooder and just seem to be sauntering around between the two doing chicken stuff: eating, drinking, pooping, cheeping. I guess the one could have just died because of the stress of transit, but they all seemed so hale and hearty a few hours ago. It was a...
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    new chicks won't sleep, one has died!

    Our day-old chicks arrived today and all seemed healthy and active. They all had drinks, ate a few hours later. But now it's almost 11 pm and they're still all milling around in the brooder and I just found one dead. Temp seems right, 90ish. Food, water, no nasty peck wars going on, safe and...
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    inherited five chickens and a duck

    There are no plans to sell the property or live there most of the time, so for now I am like a chicken foster mother of sorts. It's just across the street and that's where it stays. How clean does a chicken coop need to be? Scrubbed or just de-pooped? They have pellets just there all the time...
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    inherited five chickens and a duck

    Here's their house. And here they are
  9. megolson

    inherited five chickens and a duck

    Hi everyone, When my neighbor moved I agreed to take care of her chickens and a duck that had been largely neglected for a while as she was only up to care for them every two weeks. So now I've cleaned out their very dirty coop and run and put in fresh straw, filled up their feeder and will...
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