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Can anyone tell me what this is? I'm guessing cancer, but the pictures I've come across in research don't quite look like THIS. Symptoms were: floppy comb, purple at the tips, poopy butt, lethargy, no interest in scratch, I didn't see her eat pellets, though she was interested in drinking water...

It seems like the larger the batch, the poorer the hatch rate. I tried this in the quail forum but wasn't getting much response. When I did smaller batches of quail, 3-4 dozen, I had pretty good hatch rates, ranging from 60-80%. I recently started buying larger batches (100+ eggs) so I could...

It seems like the larger the batch, the poorer the hatch rate. When I did smaller batches of quail, 3-4 dozen, I had pretty good hatch rates, ranging from 60-80%. I recently started buying larger batches (100+ eggs) so I could sell some of the babies off to pay for the feed. My hatch rate has...

Hi guys, for the past few months, my Buff Orpington (2 yrs old) has been laying very ugly bad quality eggs. I wouldn't mind so much if "ugly" was the only thing wrong with them, but they are extremely thin shelled, though I regularly give oyster shell and when cooked, the whites are very thin...

I have a hen who I suspect to be broody. When I go in the run to feed and water, she slips out and goes DIRECTLY into the barn, digs her way into a half empty bag of bedding (the coop currently has no bedding as I am deworming and will fill it back up after the cycle is complete - I rake it out...

So I incubated 120 quail eggs, same temp and humidity that has always given me a 60-70% hatch rate. Only 4 hatched. I opened the rest of the eggs and would like to know what what I found means!! A)-3 nasty black runny gross stinkiness (I'm guessing they were rotten from the get-go?) B)-1...

I noticed a big bump on one of my chickens toes today. It looks like it's just an infected wound. I looked at bumblefoot pics and it's not that. It's not on the bottom of the foot, it's on the toe. It has a scab on it like it was bit or scratched and now it's all swollen up. It's not pink or...

I have 2 chicks with 2 mommas that were broody. I was wondering how long I should wait before taking them away from the mommas. The reason I want to do this is because I want to dose everyone with Valbazen (worms to the point of watery poo) and no one is laying ANY eggs for the last 3 days when...

Hi all, I have 14 chickens and a rooster. I'm sure some if not all have tapeworm because I've seen them in their poop (tiny little moving white blobs like miniature grains of rice or round) and now their poo has become very watery. I need to deworm and plan on using Valbazen. My question is...

Is that normal? I have 2 chicks in the coop now with mommy. The first few days, everything was fine, then it went to 2 eggs, then 2 eggs again, now no eggs. I have 14 layers, 2 were broody and stopped, was averaging around 6-8 per day.... We had a few slow days awhile back and we were thinking...

Our eggs are being stolen! Trying to figure out the culprit. Its not a human. There are some spaces predators can get in, a couple places the chickens scratched the dirt dust bathing, I doubt an egg could fit under it though. And there's about a 4 inch wide gap between coop and barn wall where...

I usually get down and inspect some of the chicken's poo when I see them poop it out or when I notice it fresh. Today, upon further inspection, there were little white worms! NOOOO!! So the next step: treat it! I'm going to add a nice helping of cayenne powder to their food, but I would like to...

I have one of those red plastic bases that you can screw a mason jar onto. The chicks (24 of them) are drinking the water so fast that I have to refill the jar very often at it's quite time consuming to take the marbles out and clean off the poo, and then put them back in... not to mention...

If it's going to be 7'x4' raised off the ground, with a sloped roof, would 15" in front and 21" in the back be sufficient? thanks. (we have to slope it forward rather than backwards because of where it's going, the rain will need to fall forward.)

How do I know they're really dead? I float tested the coturnix eggs that didn't hatch after 18 days and opened 4 of them. 2 had developed about halfway. A lot of liquid poured out when I opened it. Does that mean it was drowned? Then the last 2 I opened seemed to have developed fully. Would I...

the title basically says it all. Also coturnix... and any other sort of quail for meat. Thanks!

Here's what I have: a few chipmunky looking ones, red tinged and yellow tinged. Some yellow with thin black stripes, some primarily auburn solid sort of thick muted stripes, and one black and white. What color coturnix are they?

i have about 4 dozen coturnix eggs in the bator. For some reason I thought lockdown was on day 15 instead of 14!! Uh-oh! Did I kill them all?! Lockdown is this morning. Should I leave them in the turners (set upright on the wiremesh bottom) or set them alone on the wire mesh? Also, just to...

Day 10 with coturnix eggs. At 10pm lat night humidity was 50%. At 6:30am the hygrometer said 20% which could also mean 0% because it won't read anything lower than 20%. Has this happened to anyone before and do my chicks still have a chance?

Alright, so I have my Hovabator and 50 eggs set, some from a local person and some from Robo (thanks!). This is my first time incubating and had a question. I have a forced air and the temp just won't go to 99.5. It's steady at 100.2 or else goes to 98 something if I drop it. The humidity we're...