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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I am really sorry you are losing your Silvers. Some breeds/lines/varieties are naturally more robust and resistant to coccidiosis, while some are very susceptible to it. The Silver Leghorns have been just as prone to it as the Games, while the Legbars and Marans, and random crosses are very...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I am going to invest in a microscope one of these days so I can run my own fecals on the animals. I would be a supreme nerd then, for sure. lol
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Are you seeing that coccidia in your area is becoming resistant to Corid? I am thinking about doing a trial of metronidazole in their water to see if that helps. It is an antibiotic that has antiprotozoal properties as well.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That is insane! Laying hens for $1 each!! :eek: That would be worth it just to butcher them and eat them or feed to the dogs at that price! I don't even try to sell any roosters around here. You can give them away, but I would rather eat them myself or feed them to my dogs.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I hear that. We have a ton of roosters to butcher, and will have even more when the young cockerels free ranging grow out more. We were going to butcher the Sussex roosters and 2 more White Legbar roosters today, but it was so miserably drenching hot, and my husband and son had to finish up a...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Lost a Silver Leghorn rooster yesterday. He just seemed to fail to thrive as he didn’t seem to be ill and none of the others in the large group he is in are ill. Luckily I have 9 others. I am also losing a juvenile free ranging here and there, mainly because they just can’t resist finding a...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    We have been looking into installing a mini split Mr Cool or similar brand AC. Definitely no extra cash for that now but maybe eventually. You can do the installation yourself which is definitely a plus.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Oh no!! I’m so sorry! 😭 On the bright side, at least you have a million other backup incubators to throw the eggs in. :hugs
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    If they are laying anyway there is no harm in hatching pullet eggs once they are decent size, especially when you only have a small pool of birds to work with anyway as is my situation for now. I have hatched from pullet eggs before and the offspring are fine. Hatching pullet eggs isn’t ideal...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have noticed that my Buff Leghorns do not act like typical Leghorns. They are very calm and docile, and not flighty. So whatever breed was used to outcross to bring in those genes (eWh, Co, Di, Mh, Db) (Minorcas?) must have been a docile one. That and I’m sure breeder selection has...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Well I can’t hatch eggs without eggs, so laying is of prime importance. 😆
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I moved the last group of chicks out of the brooder building, so all are in the outdoor brooders now. Now to impatiently wait for the pullets to reach point of lay.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    He has nice type and his color is lovely. So it wouldn’t be mahagany since his hackle is still gold. More like extra autosomal red. Or some other red enhancer gene. I think the deeper red will look nice in the creles. I look forward to seeing them! 😁
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Two of the crele chicks have very light head markings, are those cockerels?
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