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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Merry Christmas! Mary
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    Common Cold Medicine for Chickens?

    Random source (auction) birds can bring anything to your flock, which is why we never bring birds home from such places. @Eggcessive gave really good advice already. Hope your birds recover, and if things are going badly, having one or more tested for the various respiratory diseases possible...
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    Foraging Chickens eating bugs that have died from Insect Sprays

    Permethrin or the much more expensive spinosad. Mary
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    And I do remember an icebox, and the ice storage market where we got the ice blocks all summer. At my aunt's summer log cabin in NW Wisconsin, before it had either electricity or a phone. Great for me as a child, and wouldn't want to live there in winter. Mary
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    My hubby watches WW1 and WW2 programs, but never the Korean or Vietnam war stuff. Too close, and especially Vietnam, on TV daily. We were on an army base Okinawa during Vietnam, plenty close enough. Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Twice we drove long distance in freezing rain, and I agree, NEVER AGAIN!!! Mary
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    Any guesses on genders?

    Both cockerels, my best guess. Cute, too! Mary
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    Adding Infected Chickens to Flock

    I agree about hatchery eggs, but would worry about eggs from many 'backyard' folks. Like the people the OP got those birds from recently! Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    We've had snow, and cold already, so today it was kinda nice, 50F and sunny. Won't last, but nice anyway. This morning our one surviving October bantam EE chick started crowing! Cute, squeaky, and he may be a keeper. The pair of booted bantams he's been raised with will be leaving as soon as...
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    Adding Infected Chickens to Flock

    Yes, to a point. Mareks doesn't come through eggs, but Mycoplasma can. And if I ever buy an incubator, I'm doomed! The chicken explosion won't be pretty, will need way more coop space! Mary
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    Capons

    Abdominal surgery without anesthesia? Not a fan!!! Mary
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    Adding Infected Chickens to Flock

    You might have already infected your flock, if these birds were out there at all, or if you didn't keep everything they touched either washed/ disinfected, or thrown out. As mentioned, only birds from good hatcheries, or home bred, are best. And get your hatchery chicks vaccinated against...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Me too! I'm bringing the roast, everyone else is doing the rest. And the screaming kidlin's are not in my living room... Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Chick update: the one surviving Australorp/ maybe EE chick has six buddies from Meyers, two chipmonk colored chicks about the same age, and four three week olds. Two appear to be a pair of Salmon Favorelles (so much for pullets only) and two are cream/ pale gold whoevers. Maybe Orphingtons? I...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    No way can these chicks go back to mama, some of them are almost three weeks old, and only one is one week old like mine. And we don't have a good way to have her in a less cold place with chicks anyway, that was the cause of those deaths. Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio! They have a store on...
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