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Thank you. I cleaned her up and put her in the hospital cage in the run. She looked much better. I bought some of the Poultry vitamins last night and will start giving her some today. It was raining pretty hard here yesterday so I didn't get to do all that I wanted to do, but today I am...

Her vent is a mess, but I don't see indications of bugs. She has so many areas of concern, I am beginning to believe this could part of an early molt. Would they pick the feathers around their vent if it was just irritated. She has what looks like a burn alone the top of her cockscomb. The...

Thank you so much. They love scrambled eggs. I had planned to increase the protein, but I like the idea of liver....good iron, therefore red blood cells. I never thought of giving them liver. I have some in the freezer. Thank you once again. I will post pictures. I was on my way down to...

I have a 20 month old Bresse hen that has a large patch of bare skin on her lower chest and under her wings. I know it must be from feather picking because of mites. I think she must have had them for a while. I noticed she had dirty britches, yesterday. It looked almost black. My concern...

On day 20, I had a chick that had pipped, but sat for 28 hours without going any further. I could see it's beak moving, but I was sure it was stuck. I found this article and followed the instructions to help complete it's zIp. I wrapped it in a warm wet washcloth and stuck it back in the...

I gave them a little 6" high roost bar in the brood box then lifted them up on the 12" high roost bar at 4 weeks when I moved them outside to the baby coop and after a day or two they were getting up on their own. At 8 wks I raised the bar to 24" high and they just went up on their own. They...

I have read that it is not good for newly hatched chicks to move around too much because they can actually harm their legs. I read an article eariler this year that suggested you make little breed boxes out of hardware cloth 9" x 9" squares, cut 2" x 2" squares out of each corner and bend the...

I bird are doing great. I was just shocked that were molting so young. They look better than ever. and one of my Leghorns cockscomb was horrible it looked as if it was going to shrivel up and drop off. Once she got through the molt, her cockscomb filled out again and actually got bigger. That...

Born Valentines Day (2.) Obvious Roo by 18 days old.

Born on Valentines Day (1.) A little Roo attitude, 3 days old.

Oops, I hate it when that happens. One dsy I'll figure it out!....😂

I spent 3 months mixing my own grains that I ordered from New Country Organics. I was sprouting the grains then adding Ferrell's Nutri-balancer and giving free vhoice kelp granules and oyster shells, but I have to say that was a lot of work. I decided to just try the soy- free layer feed and...

I just converted over to NCO in December, the layer soy-free. I like it a lot. We have had sub-freezing temperatures like we have never seen before, so I couldn't give my guys wet food at all or it would freeze solid in 30 minutes. I found a feed and seed store near me that has New Country...

I have a small humidifier I used when my grandchildren came to visit if they had a stuffy nose and I had read that if you can manage the humidity in the room it makes it easier to stablize the humidity in the incubator. I had a batch of chick hatch on Valentines Day. I tried the humifier...

I had a Marans chick that didn't hatch and when I opened the egg to try to figure out why, the chick had a very promanent cockscomb. It was an elongated egg that z friend gave me. I had my doubts wither it would hatch and it didn't. I will never do that again. It was the waste of a good egg...

Well, I went with my gut feelings and I awakened this morning to 5 chirping chickens. I know one hatch at 2:00am because I came through to get a bottle of water and got to witness the baby flopping out of the shell, all wet down. The rest were here when I woke up. I still have one Marans egg I...

The 18% worked great! I awakened to 5 chirping chicks this morning. I have 2 full bred Leghorn chicks, 1 Leghorn/Marans chick, 1 EE/Marans chick and 1 Brahma/Marans chick. I am still hoping Full Marans egg hatches. Today is the 21st day. Happy Valentines Day.

That is so sweet! The 18% worked great! I awakened to 5 chirping chicks this morning. I have 2 full bred Leghorn chicks, 1 Leghorn/Marans chick, 1 EE/Marans chick and 1 Brahma/Marans chick. I am still hoping Full Marans egg hatches. Today is the 21st day. Happy Valentines Day.

I am on day 20 and I have only had a Light Brahma pip during the night last night. It hasn't done anything further. No other pips from the other 5 eggs. I am a little nervous, but I can't do anything anyway, so I guess I will just wait. My temp has been steady at 99.5° and humidity around 65%...

My appologies. I somehow crossed over from the thread I started yesterday asking about the proper humidity for Lockdown. Not sure how that happened, but it sure has been fun. I guess I needed to get a new prospective. Enjoy your day and thanks.