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    🙏 Please help! baby serama with leg issues 🙏

    Hi, This baby was born 5 days ago. I thought it was straddle leg so I did the standard glass therapy, splint, selenium B it's etc. Unfortunately, no improvement. Her legs actually point out to the sides in an l shape, perhaps from the hip. She is otherwise thriving, but I am worried for her...
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    Please help!!!

    I posted yesterday about my little chick that seems to have an injured leg/foot. Upon reading a lot of previous threads with a lot of similar stories, I’ve isolated her and used vet tape to wrap the affected leg. She’s been in solution for 24 hours now and mostly sleeps, eats, drinks, and poops...
  3. newchickychick

    Wry Neck? - Few-Day Old Silkie Chick

    Context; We got this baby and 14 others this morning. They were shipped. This one was underneath all the other chicks however was NOT showing any signs of listlessness. It is, however, frequently bent over backwards or with its head turned to the side. My concern is that it is wry neck, and if...
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    HELP Chick Not Absorbing Veins and Yolk

    I found this chick pipped under the broody hen 26 hours ago. His beak was not at the pip location so I picked the egg up to investigate and the membrane was dry, there was no movement, and I didn’t hear any pips. I placed him in the incubator for a few hours while I did some research. I read...
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    Day 23 and still movement! What is going on?

    I’m an elementary school science teacher in NYC. Normally we hatch eggs and our security guard takes them to his farm and in the spring brings us new eggs to hatch. It’s such an amazing collaboration and we talk about our grand-babies. This year a fox got all but one hen and 1 rooster so I had...
  6. BrittleViolets

    Please Help! Something is Off With One of My Eggs

    I candled this egg today and saw this black spot inside the egg. The embryo is still alive it seems, but none of the other eggs have this dark spot. The embryo is on the other side of the egg in this picture. I would appreciate it if someone could explain what is wrong! Do I need to discard the egg?
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    Day Old Chicks HELP

    Hello, I’m new here but have raised day old chicks for years and I’m completely stumped. I got 6 chicks yesterday (McMurray Hatchery shipped) and they seemed to be doing well. I had one that was little off but I always expect that with chicks shipments. Now I have 2 almost dead twisting, gasping...
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    Chicken molting

    Hello, I’m a new chicken owner so I’m still learning. I have a chicken who is molting around her neck. The other girls haven’t been bugging her neck up until today… it looks really irritated and red in the area. Any recommendations on what to use on her that would stop the others from pecking...
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    Rodent Problem - Please help & give advice

    First time chicken mom here- I’ve had my chickens since last spring. I started with 6 and recently have 4. One of my hens passed to due egg yolk peritonitis and the other one was an unexpected death. She was fine one night then the next morning she was acting off and died within hours. I’m...
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  10. Quail_

    Bad weather preparation tips!

    Before I start i just wanted to say if this is in the wrong area for asking, I'm sorry lol. For people who get tornados or worse weather and have chickens, what do you do to keep your flock safe? I'm not in an area with tornadoes but we've gotten warnings before. I just want some suggestions on...
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    Mixed flock, 4 weeks and 1 week old

    Hi (sorry this is long), So I’m new to backyard chickens, and I wanted to get a few layer hens. I had done all the research about which breed I wanted and when I went (Sunday) into the local feed store to pick up the supplies to set up the brooders, I was talking to the employee about when the...
  12. A

    Fowl Pox - Help!

    hello, i have a 2 year (ish) old hen and i believe she has fowl pox. its pretty late stage, affected her face and eyes, she has warts on her comb and wattle, they arent black, just pink/pale/yellow , she can barely see, i have to gently pry open her eyes every morning (its been about 2 days with...
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    Failure to Thrive - HELP!

    I have a polish chick that is sleeping almost constantly. Like I truly never see it do anything besides sleep. It’s 6 or 7 days old now (I’ve had so many hatches lately I can’t remember for certain) and is growing in new wing feathers but still just seems so tiny and so so sleepy. Wondering if I...
  14. Bitterrse55

    I hatched Blue Tolbunt Polish ?

    I recently hatched some tolbunt polish eggs that I bought from a breeder. Some chicks have very light grey coloring on their body instead of black. The breeder said those ones are blue tolbunt polish.(?) I've never heard of that. Has anyone else heard of blue tolbunt and if so, do you have...
  15. C

    help!!!

    i have 30 eggs and 11 eggs hatched on day 19, 1 egg hatched on day 20. On day 21, nothing else hatched, but i decided to wait till day 23, today is day 22 by the way, do you think those eggs will still hatch ?? :'>> and what do you think went wrong? im using a diy forced draft incubator...
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    HELP! Chick getting bullied in incubator by others

    I’m in the middle of a hatch and a chick that just hatched is getting pecked to bits (even has a bloody spot on its back) by two 20ish hour old chicks. Terrified to open the incubator as I have a chick zipping right now and don’t want to shrink wrap it. What do I do?!
  17. ih8frijoles

    guinea fowl acting lethargic

    Hello ! So i have a year old guinea, truthfully i don’t know if its a hen or not, and noticed that she’s not acting right. While giving the flock some fruit i noticed she would walk and then put her head down. They usually never let me grab them so i was really surprised when she let herself be...
  18. C

    Help! Chick has one leg out but cant get out!

    Chick has been hatching for almost 24 hours. It did not zip, rather it got most of the side of the egg gone. It has one leg out, but not the other and doesn't seem to me able to move the head. It's still vigorous and will chirp in response to chirping noises. Should I help out or leave ot put...
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    Ameraucana injury & broken nail?

    I have an Ameraucana hen whose foot is injured and I am not sure what to do. I have treated lethargic chickens, scissor beak chickens, and generally sick chickens, but nothing like this. I went to collect eggs and I found her sitting in one of the boxes, which isn't out of the ordinary, but then...
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    Burnt heads & pecking??

    I have three polish bantams, they’ve all gotten a burn on their heads from the heat plate overnight despite it being raised according to their growth, I’ve put it up again since the burns showed up 3 days ago. I cleaned them daily with saline & I am spraying their heads with anti-peck spray...
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