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    Possible vitamin deficient rooster not getting better.

    That is where we differ a bit, I don't care where she gets her information from and with the amount of products that get recalled every year because they may kill or maim their customers means that logical or illogical doesn't even enter the equation for me as I saw it more as a "don't overlook...
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    Possible vitamin deficient rooster not getting better.

    Personally I had never heard of it before, I had only heard of wheat being sprayed for weevils from an old truck driver that used to drive wheat trucks, but she seemed to know a lot of info about it and seemed to be very disappointed in the feed companies. By commercial feed she was meaning bags...
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    Possible vitamin deficient rooster not getting better.

    With that timeline it would have to be a weak strain of Marek's or he would have to have already been vitamin deficient when you changed feed for it to be vitamin deficiency. Was your old feed fortified with vitamins?
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    Possible vitamin deficient rooster not getting better.

    The feed could be a coincidence, but someone was telling me the other day that she no longer feeds her flock with commercial feed because some of the feed manufacturers spray their feed with something (I am not sure what the 3 letters were that she told me) to stop rodents being attracted to it...
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    Advice on low hatch rates.

    Avian vets are few and far between in Oz but any vet should be able to do a swab test and send it off for you.
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    Advice on low hatch rates.

    It's not the feed, I know breeders still getting good results using Barastoc Golden Yolk. It sounds more like a vertically transmitted disease to me given what you know about the other breeders incubator setup.
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    Linoleum: How to Keep it Down

    I have found the standard liquid nails dries out too much and fails after a while. A good mate put me onto the Soudal T-REX with 320 tonne/m2 bonding strength that will stick to almost anything, I was totally impressed that it bonded stainless steel to plastic for me.
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    Portable Air Conditioner

    When it is humid leave the swamp cooler running but turn the water off to it and you are essentially doing the same thing, the swamp cooler adds humidity to the air via it's water source.
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    Linoleum: How to Keep it Down

    If it is big enough to put down in one piece then just use screw down edging strips and give it a bit of a stretch while screwing it.
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    Do not have only ONE nest box!

    Ok then, plan B it is... do they still sell Super Soaker's or would a Nerf work better? 🤣 🤣
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    Roos? Americana + OE

    20 hens will be enough for 2 roo's but it is a difficult task to try to house them together if that is what you are thinking of. If you have 2 or more coops then housing them shouldn't be an issue. Roo's don't really care about the age of a pullet or a hen, all they go off is if her comb and...
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    Do not have only ONE nest box!

    I have been thinking on a solution to this for a while now, not because of broodies but for higher pecking order birds screaming and kicking lower pecking order birds out as a power trip. The only thing that I can come up with so far is a rollaway nesting box, wide enough to take 5 or 6 hens...
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    What Gender Are These Two?

    "A" looks like a cockerel and "B" is most likely a pullet.
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    Is Ivermectin recommended?

    That is not too bad, but what are you going to do with half a litre? Do you keep livestock as well? Avimec usually costs me about $19 for 50ml from the stock 'n' feed and I never get through it in the 12 month expiry period. You want scabs when the kernel comes out, if it is just a crater left...
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    Finally met my predator match. Need help.

    Seven states 🤔... when did they add another one, I must have missed that announcement, doh.
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    Is Ivermectin recommended?

    It is great that they are making a recovery but I wish I had of caught this thread earlier as cattle pour on is the expensive way to buy Ivermectin when you are only going to use a few ml before it expires, Avimec from the stock 'n' feed or Petbarn is usually cheaper and comes in smaller...
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    Can anyone tell me if my chicks are roos or hens. I bought 8 chicks and have 7 left. One for sure turken, 4RIR, 2 pullet, and the other yellow one.

    🙂 I was meaning things more like ducks need access to water to swim and chickens don't, they both have different feed requirements, etc., but if you have kept them before then you would know that and already have a pond in there for them plus a way of feeding them differently and things like...
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    Grass Seed for Raising Geese

    https://opensanctuary.org/things-that-are-toxic-to-geese/ scroll down to T.
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    Is this chick a Roo 9 week old bantum mix breeds

    Yep thats a cockerel mate.
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    Its too late now, but I'm wondering...

    Reading your post my initial thought was a vertical disease passed through the egg as that is one of the major causes of bad hatch rates with low to no survival rates of chicks. The only variable was if you were inexperienced in hatching but as you have done other hatches it rules out...
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