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So I've heard and read that chickens can just up and die, for no apparent reason and leaving little to no clues as to the "why?" I can now attest to that as fact. I went out this morning toting a full to the top 5 gallon bucket of FF (since the weather has been warm enough to do FF), and opened the coop door to see a shadow in a pile in a corner. Turns out I lost one of the biggest New Hampshire pullets :hit just over 10 mos old. No pulled feathers, no indication of cannibalism or pecking, no discharges from either end. She was a good weight (heavy) so had obviously been eating well. Her feathers were in good shape except the few spots from being mounted by the roo. Just no explanation at all... Really bummed about it as they are my best layers. Today was trash day and I had no time to do an autopsy before work so I just bagged her and added her to the trash can. I didn't think highly of the idea of eating her as I had no idea how long she had been dead or what she died from. Everyone else is just fine today when I got home from work. What a waste really. It's kinda bothered me all day wondering if it was something I did or didn't do... or could have done differently, or should have seen coming... I'm out there with them at least twice a day and didn't notice anything suspicious at all... oh well... tomorrow's another day. Vent over. thanks for listening.
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Sorry for your loss LS, I have heard this happens and I am sure it never is easy. I have heard they can die from heart attacks. Don't beat yourself up, I am sure there was nothing you did wrong. :hugs
maggiemo said:
You guys go, DK and Ash!! Hope you both have great hatches! Keep us posted! I have 7 3 week old chicks now. I will try to get some pictures this weekend. I have 30 chicks coming the week of the 23rd. Blah, talk about chicken math...I don't even know what I was thinking. I ordered 6 pullet bantams from My Pet Chicken (3 barred rock and 3 EE bantams), so that was reasonable, and for some reason I added 9 cinnamon queens to the order. Then I had a $25 credit from last year from Meyer Hatchery. They don't sex bantams so I was just going to let the credit laps....but no....I ordered a 15 pullet rainbow mix....oy....chicken fricassee anyone?
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bbqnmama said:
Lol! Well now if that's not a small world...!! So, I may have made my decision for me. I have had turkeys arriving at the end of this month and a set of hens arriving in may. But a group camping trip has popped up that we Want to go on with pals that just so happens to coincide perfectly with the arrival of the chickens soooo. I've moved them up to arrive at the same time as the turkeys, in a cpl weeks. (Exciting!) That said, by moving them up I had to increase my order from 16 to 25 to meet the requirement (hehe, my other half isn't aware of this fact yet - lol!) So.... I now have 25 hens arriving in a cpl weeks on top of the 18 baby turkeys. Lol. So I'm thinking, given my somewhat spontaneous increase in hens, I may have no choice but to do the meat birds for their somewhat shorter time span for simple fact that I'll be a bit more limited in terms of coop space. (Was thinking some of the meat chickens could hang with the hens in the chicken coop but now that is going to be full! They're joining my current 18). I'm telling ya, I now truly see how this whole chicken thing can become addicting.
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I see chicken math has visited you!
BlackFrogHollow said:
Hello all! We are in the Colorado Springs area and have 13 assorted hens and 1 roo! I also have 2 guineas and some quail. I am trying to find some Olive Eggers.
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welcome to the board and I believe @samsr has OE.
 
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Ashdoes said:
Awwww, for some reason one of the little chicks hatched, and then died. Today is actual hatch day, I'm hoping more get going.
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That's a bummer. This is what I'm getting worried about with my 4 eggs. I keep expecting something to go wrong next week when they're supposed to hatch since nothing has gone wrong yet. Obviously, my expecting the worst all the time wasn't affected by my brain trauma like everything else.
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Did you, or anyone else on the thread, have any issues with your humidity for lockdown? We are super dry out in our area and while thus far it hasn't seemed like an issue I know that the humidity should be raised for lockdown and, of course, I'm worrying ahead of time about it.
 
I'm on day 18 and need to remove my egg turner, but i have the severe case of the dropsy.

Last night i added 2 runner ducks to my homestead, and my bf said ok to a couple turkey poults, who has them?

I have oe chicks :)
 
Ashdoes said:
I run a cool mist humidifier right by the incubator. Just keep an eye on things, that's all you can do.
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Thank you for the tip! Bought one on Amazon and it should be here by lockdown!

Double Kindness said:
I'm on day 18 and need to remove my egg turner, but i have the severe case of the dropsy.

Last night i added 2 runner ducks to my homestead, and my bf said ok to a couple turkey poults, who has them?

I have oe chicks
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Good luck! How exciting! I can't remember - what are you incubating right now? I want to get ducks/geese *so much* but I think that's where my parents would draw the line. :)
 
I'm just incubating the last of the eggs of my chickens covered by my old roo Lenny the salmon favorelle x wellsummer x light brahma roo.

After this hatch, i'm going to set eggs covered by my ayam cemani roo. Some ee x ac, polish x ac.. see what pops out lol
 

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