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  1. lemuckley_flock

    Something has infected our flock - help!

    I wormed with wazine. We have had issues with resistant parasites in our goats and had to move to stronger dewormers that we can only get through our vet, I wonder if the same is happening with our chickens. We live in middle tennessee.
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    Something has infected our flock - help!

    They both died overnight. Took one in this morning for necropsy, they already called and said there's nothing obvious. She looked like she had some sort of chronic wasting going on, they said - her fat pockets had atrophied and she had very little fat at all. They're doing a fecal and several...
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    Something has infected our flock - help!

    About two weeks ago we had a hen who got a swollen up in the face. She was otherwise acting well, but we pulled her and ended up culling - she obviously had something wrong with her and we didn't want to risk spread. This morning when I let everyone out I noticed two of my three month olds...
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    Swollen eyes and head in hen

    She doesn't have most of the symptoms of either of the diseases you mentioned....no discharge from her eyes or beak, no foul smell, no respiratory symptoms at all, no diarrhea. One of the recommended treatments for coryza is Di-methox....we just did a 21 day preventative on the goats, and the...
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    Swollen eyes and head in hen

    She's not new, I hatched her about a year ago. The only new chickens I have are from my two most recent hatches - I haven't purchased any chickens for over three years. No one around us has chickens, and no one has come in the back where they are that would have had chicken contact for a really...
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    Swollen eyes and head in hen

    I noticed yesterday that one of my hens looked sort of puffy around her eyes. Today she's much worse - very swollen around the eyes and comb, and her comb is fairly pale. I thought her eye was swollen closed but it was stuck shut. Her feet also seem swollen. I've separated her and she's alert...
  7. lemuckley_flock

    All hens suddenly stopped laying, and other issues

    We've looked everywhere for hidden nests, nothing. Last year we didn't start giving light until November and they didn't stop laying - they slowed down but didn't stop. The combo of no eggs and no chicken lovin' have me thinking something is wrong...our Roos have always been horny buggers, so...
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    All hens suddenly stopped laying, and other issues

    Reaching the end of all ideas...help? We have a flock of 20 chickens - 17 hens and 3 roosters. Two of the hens are 3 years old, one rooster. And a handful of hens are a year, and the rest will be two years in December. We also have 17 littles who hatched in August, who will be replacements...
  9. lemuckley_flock

    Need really fast help - wafer blew and hatch is in progress

    So I've ended up with 13 chicks. This has to have been the most stressful hatch ever. Once the thermostat popped temp regulation became a nightmare, and I had to keep opening the bator to let heat out because it was going either too high or too low....of course, I had zero humidity regulation...
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    Need really fast help - wafer blew and hatch is in progress

    I Out of 22 eggs, so far SEVEN have hatched and five more are pipped. I'm calling this hatch a raging success based on the bator failure, even if not another one hatches. My PSA - always have a back up plan - ALWAYS. I won't be without an extra wafer or bator ever again. And I'll post pics...
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    Need really fast help - wafer blew and hatch is in progress

    Never mind, my OP was last night, it's morning now, too late.
  12. lemuckley_flock

    Need really fast help - wafer blew and hatch is in progress

    Son of a bleep. I've got a HovaBator 1602n running right now - the model with the wafer thermostat. I've got 22 eggs in there, we're late day 20. Five are pipped, one chick almost out, and we heard a huge *PING*.....temp has dropped to 96*. I'm hovering over it, adjusting it non-stop, trying...
  13. lemuckley_flock

    Issues with naval opening - what did we do wrong?

    They did hatch early. Today is 21 days, and they started on day 19 and I think finished yesterday evening (day 20). There are still four eggs in there not pipped and I'm letting them go till this evening to see if they'll do anything. They all SEEM to be well (I had a third yesterday evening...
  14. lemuckley_flock

    Six hour old chick - spraddle legs?

    Thanks. It appears as though another chick has the same problem - it just hatched an hour ago and is still in the incubator, but s/he has the same leg deal. On a positive, s/he seems more active and is able to hold his body upright, where the first was just flopping over on its side. The...
  15. lemuckley_flock

    Six hour old chick - spraddle legs?

    This chick is about six hours old. It hatched with no assistance and was sort of flopping funny, different than they usually do straight from the egg. I've been watching closely, and when s/he gets excited both legs start kicking and the babe ends up on his/her back, legs kicking around. S/he...
  16. lemuckley_flock

    Issues with naval opening - what did we do wrong?

    We're seven chicks in to our first incubator hatch - we've had multiple hatches before but always with a broody, so no fuss on our end. I've still got nine eggs in there, five are pipped and four don't appear to be through the window - although one chick exploded out of an egg that I didn't...
  17. lemuckley_flock

    Impacted crop or something else?

    Two days ago I noticed one of the girls acting oddly....in hindsight she was off the day before as well. When I picked her up I was shocked at how large her crop was - seriously, it was gigantic, very soft and squishy. Her beak smelled horrible and she very obviously had some sour crop going...
  18. lemuckley_flock

    Hova-Bator 1602n and temp issues

    Well, we played with the darn thing for days, and the temp was either 110 or room temp (75). I was getting frustrated, so my hubby took the whole thing apart and decided we needed to just replace the guts and try with that...he also fashioned some vent plugs out of those foam ear plugs. So we...
  19. lemuckley_flock

    Hova-Bator 1602n and temp issues

    Thank you!! I'd found that (or one very close) link in my searching, but kept getting a bad page message - this one worked! I read through it and tightened up the wafers, and it looks as though it's settling down. The woman he bought it from said she'd used it three times, and it's really in...
  20. lemuckley_flock

    Hova-Bator 1602n and temp issues

    My husband bought a hova-bator 1602n second hand, and left it to me to try and figure out. It came with no instructions or manual, and I don't even know if all of the pieces are there. I've got the incubator, the water tray and piece of mesh for the bottom. The lid has the thermostat (no fan...
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