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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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    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.

    Big Boss is probably a cockerel as well, pink wattles. Also keep an eye on Speck as those are thick legs it has, if it has pink wattles as well then it will be a cockerel. You can essentially cross any chicken breed with any other chicken breed or jungle fowl. When crossing though common sense...
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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.

    🙂 you don't need tail and wing feathers to see that huge pink, curved on top comb of his. If you look at your pullets they all have virtually no comb and it is straight on top.
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    Tasmania

    Sorry this is the best that I can find: http://www.backyardpoultry.com/directory/category/chickens-softfeather/australorp/location/tasmania/ http://backyardpoultry.com/noticeboard/index.php?cat_id=6 It looks like most of the Tasmanian breeders have pulled their listings off eggsellent for...
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    Roos? Americana + OE

    The Sapphire Olive Egger is a roo, it has pink wattles already. I have no idea on the Americana as they have a pea comb so I usually have to hold them and play around with them to see which sex they are.
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