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    Breeding your own Cornish X

    I hope so as well! Thank you for the advice. I will start grabbing some of the big guys just to give them a feel.
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    Breeding your own Cornish X

    Thank you so much for your reply. They are just over 12 weeks... and im trying to figure out what I have going on here roos vs pullets... they are really big birds... but minus heads, feet and internals, I can't project what that might look like. A friend took some as he needed layers and...
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    Breeding your own Cornish X

    I have a small flock of first generation chicks from cornish roo × white rock hen and white rock roo × cornish hen. I am not sure who I should be breeding to next. I read somewhere to breed them back to 'their father/roo.' i have found that when I had a cross of ISA hen to ISA roo, the...
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    Upper beak trim?

    Thank you for posting this question. I am in the same position and hit the search bar before asking. I'm a little nervous. Decades ago now, my husband told me this horrible story of a childhood beak trimming incident which has since put me around the bend every time I think about it. 😑 I...
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    On the topic of Easter Eggers... *Generally Speaking*...

    You are not kidding. This was part of my 'female hatching experiment'.... so this result blew me away. I tried the same this year and looks like LOTS OF BOYS. Lol.
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    On the topic of Easter Eggers... *Generally Speaking*...

    Thank you so much. My plan had been to sell some.... but I just couldn't bring myself to. I really love them.
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    On the topic of Easter Eggers... *Generally Speaking*...

    I hope all those come through. They were like a box of chocolates. All different. The 2 brown girls are the most similar in appearance. They all lay green eggs.
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    On the topic of Easter Eggers... *Generally Speaking*...

    Better late than never. All.... ALL... the EE were pullets. Of the OE, 3 pullets, 1 cockerel. 😬
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    9 year old asttalorpe hen.... respiratory or circulatory/pulminary?

    I had not considered water belly. She does not feel... full....but I will give her another once over when the sun comes up. The wheezing was not helped by the antibiotic. The only other thing I hadn't tried was something for yeast. Her breath doesn't smell funky at all. I am leaning toward...
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    9 year old asttalorpe hen.... respiratory or circulatory/pulminary?

    Thank you. I truly appreciate that. 💜 It has honestly been a struggle. To try to balance using our limited resources (powdered antibiotics) on a 9 year old gal when there might not be any benefit. I had an 'A HA!' moment yesterday and tried some chick crumble and she went bonkers for it...
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    9 year old asttalorpe hen.... respiratory or circulatory/pulminary?

    I have a 9 year old astralorpe hen who has been wheezing and snitting (?-- The word for the sneeze that is not a sneeze, but like trying to expel something) for the past week or so. No signs of respiratory illness. Had been eating, but has gone off her food. Thin, watery poop with small green...
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    Neurological or vitamin deficient chick

    I wanted to follow up with how your chick is doing? Did the tremors and other odd behavior resolve? i have a newly hatched chick i am concerned about as well... wondering if vitamin deficient/neurological in addition to other stuff-- but is still getting used to being outside of his shell...
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    'Slow to hatch' egg.... smelly?

    There's now more to the story which had been included in the 2nd post made to the emergecy/illnesss group 3 hours or so after this one. To update as much as i can recall without going back and forth, came home several hours later, he had freed one leg, but was still in the egg. So I repeated...
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    'Slow to hatch' egg.... smelly?

    I am hatching chicks. They started hatching roughly 36 hours ago. One was zipping.... had been zipping....for a while. I could hear him peeping and griping while everyone ran him over. Moved the chicks to their brooder a little while ago so I could tend to him. I chipped a little of the...
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    Is this normal? 3 year old Isa browns dropping....

    I do appreciate it, thank you.
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