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    shipped weak chick incubator or brooder

    Thank you for your help. Nutridrench is a wonderful thing.
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    shipped weak chick incubator or brooder

    Thank you so very much for your reply. I did drop the temp down to 93 degrees with a small cooling period. I just wanted to make sure that 93 wouldn't be too warm for her. The last thing she needed was to overheat as well.
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    shipped weak chick incubator or brooder

    So I had an order of peeps shipped and they ended up at the wrong post office. When we got them home, all were doing well except one. She is a bit smaller than the others and barely moving when they arrived. I gave her some sugar water to pep her up and popped her in the incubator to get...
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    Calmest large breed rooster?

    Each Rooster is their own and I have had some brothers with very different personalities but I have found over the years that it is their raising as much as breed that can affect their overall personality. Now when looking for a Rooster, I try to find one that has been hen raised and/or lived...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens?

    I got into raising chickens because we were the only family in my son's Montessori school that lived in the country and they needed somewhere for those silkie babies to go once they started to stink up the classroom. Good thing we lived in the country because we had 3 Roosters in the bunch...
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    I have a blind chicken--anybody here have that issue?

    I have a rooster who is entirely blind due to a fox attack. He lives with a very elderly silkie rooster and a couple of silkie hens. As long as I keep his coop the same he does well. I do have to carry him in at night as he isn't always able to find his way back into the coop. I have never...
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    introducing new "flock" to 1 chicken

    When I have to introduce one to a larger flock, what I do is pick one of the birds from the big flock and introduce her to the one so they become a pair. Then I introduce the pair together. This seems to work really well and it gives my lone chicken a friend while they are transitioning and...
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    Fox attacked by Chicken - do I crate her, or put her out?

    One suggestion that you might consider depending on where you live and such is flies. I live in the deep south and any wounds tend to bring the flies. I usually treat with vetrycin and then put a small amount of SWAT to keep the flies out. I will then sometimes give some Apple cider vinegar...
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    Parrot eating a bad batch of food

    Not 100 percent sure but he likes to swing his toys and then stand under them to use them as a back scratcher. Ever since he gave himself a black eye with one about 20 year ago, I try to keep his toys fairly light. It may have hit himself with a toy. We also had a young kitten who liked to...
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    Parrot eating a bad batch of food

    Mine loves peas, bananas, apples, cooked carrots and rice. I have had him for 35 years. He started out on a seed diet as there were no pelleted diets back then. Then i switched him to the ZuPreem pelleted diet which he was on for probably 15 years until he became sick. He developed a...
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    Parrot eating a bad batch of food

    What brand of pelleted diet do you feed?
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    I need help identifying this egg please!

    Looks more chicken than duck to me but I am no expert. Do you have a thermometer that you can keep the heat lamp set so that you don't get the egg too hot or too cold. If its moving it may be close to hatching. You also might want to but a damp rag in with it to up the humidity a little...
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    Parrot eating a bad batch of food

    I have a 35 year old African Grey named Walter. Well many months ago I had him on a specific type of feed and he became ill. After an expensive round with the vet we got him healed up and feeling better. (We didn't think that it had anything to do with the food as he had also gotten a...
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    Japanese Beetles eradication method

    I have had some luck using the lures to lure them right into my chicken pen where my girls enjoy the extra snack. I will also go out and shake the trees but then I put them in a bucket of plain water and bring them to my girls. Its like cereal in milk. They gobble them up pretty quickly...
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