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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Cross beak

« on: September 26, 2017, 04:52:42 PM »

Thank you guys for the information it's extremely helpful.

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Housing, Health & Hatching / Cross beak

« on: September 26, 2017, 12:34:45 AM »

While observing our chick's today my wife and I noticed one of our (blue Ameraucana) chick's has cross beak. While we have no intention of breeding this chick due to the deformity we are wondering if this chick is a pullet, like we think how negativity will this affect this chick as it developes. If the chick is a pullet and the cross beak will not physically pain the chick or hurt its ability to eat and produce eggs we'll simply keep it as an egg layer since we are still developing our flock but,  ultimately we want to do what's best for the chick and treat it as humanly as possible.

Thanks for any advise or help.

Mitch and Tiffany

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Housing, Health & Hatching / Baby Chick Trouble

« on: September 14, 2017, 09:20:17 PM »

We just received our order of baby Ameraucana chick's and while they all made it alive through the mail, one of our chicks is struggling. It can walk and get around ok but, lays on it's side quite a bit and rolls on its back sometimes and struggles rolling back over. We are making sure it is eating and drinking and have separated it from our group of ten trying to give it a better chance of survival since they (the other chicks) would run over top of it. We are currently supplementing their water with electrolytes trying to help them recover from shipment (9 out of 10 are doing well) along with providing free choice feed and are monitoring the brooder temperature to make sure we are at the correct temperature.

Any information or advice on this matter is appreciated.

Thanks

Mitch and Tiffany