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    Newly hatched poults can't stand, has floppy neck.

    HELP! We had 6 poults hatch out of 14 eggs, 2 died with in 90 min and 2 others can't seem to stand up. They keep shooting their legs strait out and pushing themselves along the bottom of the brooder on their sides. Their heads seem a little floppy too. I looked up wry neck and this doesn't seem...
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    One of my Australorps gave me a HEART ATTACK today.

    OK! STORY TIME! So, I have about 6-9 bird that's are early layers and are done by 9 am, then we have the jerks that will lay alllll the way til SIX PM. So, today, I went up to collect the eggs around 4:40 (gotta love DLS and extra day light) and I go left tho right, and I get to the last box to...
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    Bourbon Red Heritage Hatching Eggs

    Hi everyone, So after our BBB Turks sudden escape/disappearance around the 7 week mark, we decided to get Bourbon Red Heritage Turks. So they came in around early July, and started laying Monday March 11th. So, first, it doesn't matter how clean the boxes are, it's been muddy and they're MESSY...
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    Eggs, Winter, and Egg Stands

    Greetings, So we put up an egg stand 2 weeks ago (finally got it done) and it's been pretty warm for winter in PA zone 7b and barely dips below freezing...until now. This week is suppsoed to be really really cold. We have 2 more months of winter to go and was hoping to keep my nice new...
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    New Favorite Roost!

    I took her out to check how she was doing after i had to clip a slight beak overhang She hopped right up, this is her new fav spot.
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    Culling/Harvesting Success!

    Somehow I managed to do it I thought I was going to wind up being all talk even after getting the drill plucker and the stand ready and buying the dual sink table for outside I really thought I was going to chicken out. But even though I was violently shaking I gave them hugs I gave them nice...
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    Why are Only 1/3rd of my Hens laying?

    We have roughly 20 hens that are of laying age, but I'm only getting SIX eggs a day. The coop is more than large enough and our run is 40x40. I always have food and water both inside and outside and we have 10 nesting boxes and 8 roosts. Below is a list of breeds and when we got the chicks: 1...
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    Are these Buckeyes? Or Blacktail Cotwolds?

    Around April 25th we went ahead and bought four more chickens from Tractor Supply and I was told they were cream leg bars the biggest reason we wanted these was for their blue eggs. I said got older they got darker and darker and recently I've noticed a couple black feathers in the tail. After...
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    Weird, but Successful Flock Coexisting in Coop/ Chickens, Guineas, Ducks, and Turkey all Together! Weird? Concerns? Ok?

    We have 50 chickens including our new hatch, our red bourbon turkeys are separate.... However we have two ducks that are in with all of our chickens and they've done really well we learned not to put open water containers inside the coop and just have a big 5 gallon waterer and it stopped them...
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    Learning and Loving it!

    We just got started with chickens in late February early March here in PA we're up to 50 birds including two ducks and 12 turkeys! Raising them was no problem but recently we started incubating eggs and I didn't think there was much to it until we got our incubator and I started reading up on...
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