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minniechickmama, keeping my fingers crossed on those eggs!

althalia, after hearing about the rooster having breathing issues after hopping off a hen, and after eating, I'm thinking it is not gapeworm, or anything like that - but probably related to heart or age? I would save the money on the swab. If it was gapeworm, I don't think it would be intermittent.

I would keep them in quarantine as you would normally, and then not worry. If it is heart or age, nothing you can do. Minnies advice on the feed makes sense to me too!

what a gorgeous day! Sue and I went to st croix state park and hiked with her dogs. St Croix river ice was breaking up, saw eagles and ravens, found some owl droppings, I forget what you call those bundles of fur and bones that they pass.....think I even got a little sunburn!
 
Minniechickmama said:
As I was typing earlier, it dawned on me, it was too quiet.  The fan on my incubator had died overnight.  The eggs felt cold.  I got them in the hatcher, which works fine, and got my husband to help me fix it.  I have 4 other fans I couldn't get to work in the incubator and just had to switch up with one that I disconnected before.  Well, my husband works on electronic and electrical stuff, so he helped me figure out how to get one of the new ones working.  It is MUCH quieter now too!  I hope like he11 that I don't lose too many.  I have about 250 eggs in it.
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Hope not either. My last malfunctioning incubator ended up being tossed. I was so angry about the lost eggs.
 
lalaland said:
minniechickmama, keeping my fingers crossed on those eggs!

althalia,  after hearing about the rooster having breathing issues after hopping off a hen, and after eating, I'm thinking it is not gapeworm, or anything like that - but probably related to heart or age?  I would save the money on the swab.  If it was gapeworm, I don't think it would be intermittent.   

I would keep them in quarantine as you would normally, and then not worry.  If it is heart or age, nothing you can do.  Minnies advice on the feed makes sense to me too!

what a gorgeous day!  Sue and I went to st croix state park and hiked with her dogs.  St Croix river ice was breaking up, saw eagles and ravens, found some owl droppings, I forget what you call those bundles of fur and bones that they pass.....think I even got a little sunburn!
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One of my favorite parks for camping. Lots of level ground for biking with a kid.
 
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Put the chicks outside today in their Peck 'n Play. Some of the hens were interested in the up and coming flock members. It was so hard to go back inside!
 
the cream legbar rooster Ralphie gave me . looking happy with his flock this morning!





I think he is the best rooster I have had in all these years. He is so gentle with the girls, and his sex drive seems more like an older rooster rather than a tetosterone fool like most yearlig roosters. Very sweet.

A better look at his poor frostbitten comb. Definitely naturally dubbed. His wattles have healed up just fine.

 

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