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    World's worst mother hen: Was taking her last chicks the right call?

    So I had an Ayam cemani go broody and hatch some chicks. It was her first time, but my other first-timers have done great in the past, so what could go wrong, I thought? Well... On hatch day, I shut her in the dog crate to isolate her and keep her safe from other hens. When I checked, there was...
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    Baby chick losing its skin?? Exposed backbone and keel bone, can't stand, seems near death!

    Thanks for all the replies. It lives in the coop with about 15 other chicks of mixed breeds that it hatched with, plus adult birds. For now I keep the little ones in a dog kennel in the coop for most of the day so they can eat in peace. I let them out to roam with the rest of the flock for a few...
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    Baby chick losing its skin?? Exposed backbone and keel bone, can't stand, seems near death!

    I have an indio gigante chick that's about a month old. Found outside today collapsed and near death. Upon inspection, it looks to have no skin on its back, there's just hard bone. The same thing with the keel bone. Under some of its feathers are what look like little sores, as if the skin has...
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    Baby chicks very sick, choking/gagging, 15 dead already, please help!

    Hi, yes I did see a little yellow stuff in the beaks of a couple, but I thought it was just food. I checked again later and it has gone away. It seems almost like the food gets stuck in their throats and they're not really swallowing it all. None of my other chickens ever had anything like this...
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    Baby chicks very sick, choking/gagging, 15 dead already, please help!

    Here is a video link so you can see what I mean: https://vimeo.com/1024119037?share=copy#t=0 So I posted a few days ago about suspected fowl pox in my baby chicks. Nearly all of them have scabs over their eyes and around their beaks. Yesterday I lost 3, found 3 more dead this morning. Despite...
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    Fowl pox killing chicks, more dying by the day

    Hi Debbie. I live in Texas where the mosquitoes are a nonstop problem. I started brooding them outdoors in a separate pen from day 1 since it was so hot outside when they were born. A mistake, I now know! They did have brooder plates for extra warmth. I doubt a rat did it, since the scabs start...
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    Fowl pox killing chicks, more dying by the day

    I am not 100% sure this is pox but fairly certain. Dry pox I think, as I haven't seen any lesions inside the mouths. I hatched 24 chicks, three weeks old now, and whatever this disease it, it's killed 8 so far. It all started when I noticed a weird bump on the eyelid of a chick that was maybe 2...
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    Rooster acting traumatized, brain damaged?

    So today I noticed that my head rooster, an easter egger about 5 years old, hadn't made a sound all day. I couldn't find him anywhere and thought him dead, but finally located him in the back of the shed where he never goes. He was just standing there, staring straight ahead, not moving. Kind of...
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    Chick's intestines hanging out! (Warning graphic pic)

    The chick just died shortly after I posted. Poor guy.
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    Chick's intestines hanging out! (Warning graphic pic)

    This little chick just hatched, but I think the other chicks in the brooder made it hatch way too early or something. A large portion of its intestines appear to be hanging out, and there is a hard red "thing" attached to the end of them. I have tried to gently push the intestines back in but...
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    9 eggs made it to lockdown, 3 hatched. Why?

    Yeah these are my own eggs, I've hatched out chicks from the parents a few times, no problems before. I did stop turning the last 3 1/2 days. Now that I think of it, maybe opening the incubator to turn several times a day wasn't good. But you'd think they would have died before lockdown if they...
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    9 eggs made it to lockdown, 3 hatched. Why?

    So I set 12 cream legbar eggs in my Kebbonix incubator which has done well for me before. Three were infertile. Nine made it to lockdown, all moving, good healthy veins. Late on day 19, four had pipped externally. The next morning, one had hatched. Two others hatched on day 21. A day later...
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    She was supposed to be an Easter egger

    Thanks! I guess EEs really can be a wildcard. Her ears are white.
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    She was supposed to be an Easter egger

    I got this girl in my latest batch of Easter eggers, which I ordered from a hatchery. But she's nothing like the other Easter eggers in the batch. She is all black, about half the size of the others (bantam sized I think), and lays small white eggs. Plus, she went broody a couple months after...
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    Is this bird a black marans or just some kind of mutt?

    I hatched this guy from an ebay egg, the seller claims that they have black copper marans and about 20 other kinds of birds. They all mix together, so he could be anything. If you look closely you can see some copper in his hackle feathers. What do you think?
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