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If you want a professional to do a necropsy, you're looking at a vet. Here it's even more expensive ($100) to have a dead chicken examined than a live one ($55). For that though, my own vet (who is familiar with my flock) examines the chicken thoroughly and sends me a report on her findings (or lack...

Here's an example of exactly what I mean by changing the IMG tags.

The top one is what you have, the bottom one is what you need:

You don't need to delete it - just edit it. There's a button on your post somewhere around the top right of what you wrote that says 'Edit'. The problem is that you have [img]twice at the start of each picture and [ /img] twice at the end. From each line remove one [img] and one [ /img] so that ther...

My shiny new cabinet incubator has produced chicks. Two different sets of chicks; some from eggs mailed from the central NI during some lovely hot weather, and some from whatever hens of mine were still laying when I was looking to fill the incubator. From my own hens and my lovely buff with blue co...

I bought a whole lot of cheap ones (metal) which at least got them, but we spent quite a bit of time replacing every nut/washer that fell off and adding feet (so it didn't tip over) One of my (3) grandpa feeders had issues with the nuts forever unwinding from the bolts. Just that one, not the other...

I haven't used that specific feeder, but I do own several automatic feeders of varying other brands. My main general comments on automatic feeders are: * I strongly prefer those where the chooks eat from the bottom and I fill from the top; this means that I can fill up at any time without having to ...

Aw, now you're making me want to ditch my work and go outside and take chick photos. I like the chook in the middle of the first photo that looks like she is pale buff with blue bits - pretty! Right, I' off to photograph chicks - ha ha! Nothing wrong with ditching work to take chick photos. And I a...

The incubator was filled with duck this spring. My gaggle of broodies were anything but broody, which put paid to hatching anything until I was done with ducks. I'm actually quite liking this hatching-in-summer thing - I don't need to worry quite so much about chicks getting cold as a result of gett...

Gratuitous picture of the chicks from the first photo in this thread. I had 17 chicks, 10 girls, 6 boys, 1 undetermined as yet (amazing, but still doesn't nearly correct my long term rooster:hen ratio). Most of the girls are now in their new home, leaving me with a bunch of roosters and a momma hen ...

They are large breed silver pencilled wyandottes, so I am quite excited to see how they feather up! And it was a bit traumatic getting them to this point - first time broody who accidentally crushed 4 of the eggs, and 3 of the eggs had large and odd shaped air sacs because I put the eggs under befo...

:lol: seatil - that will be an explosion - what's the incubator? Brinsea Ova Easy 100 with humidity pump. Nice "little" thing. Dead easy and stress free so far. Another couple of weeks to go on the eggs in it though, including 24 posted eggs and as many large breed frizzle eggs as I could...

Wild type chicks... what breed?

I've got a minor (or major now that I've read back on what I typed...) chick explosion about to happen. Had 18 eggs in the rcom 20, then a hen went broody on random eggs. Then I got a shiny new incubator and chucked in 60 eggs, and then found two more broodies. :/

Hi Nic. Welcome to Poultry Central. For the blue laced wyandottes - I think I saw some advertised on TradeMe about a year ago in the Whangarei area (at least I think they were the blues). The Whangarei Poultry show is at the end of May, so you might find some contacts there if you're still looking t...

If only my chicks (11 and 19 week olds) would learn to roost - I'm routinely removing them from the nest boxes every night at the moment but starting to think I might have to block them off before bed time because they don't seem to be taking the hint!! Are they being bullied off the roost by older...

I have a hen with 17 chicks that's been living in our walk in pen along with a couple of escapologists and project motzle's backup rooster: http://chez.geek.nz/chooks/HenAndChicks-201601.jpg Recently I've started letting them out during the day. The other night I went out to check that they'd put th...