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    Duck swelling in foot, normal for injury?

    I have a 4 month old Pekin that must have gotten cut on some barbed wire, yesterday. She has a good size gash on her upper leg, where it meets her body. My main concern is that her foot started swelling with blood. Is this normal for a leg injury? I've treated the area and she is in a kennel but...
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    Duck thinks she's a dog?

    I have a 5 month old duck who may think she's a dog. In the past 5 months she's lost her sister to a dog attack was attacked herself causing a wing injury and was recently attacked again while we were away for the day. After the first attack she calmed WAY down. When she sees me pull in she...
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    Request PHOTOS of your nesting box

    Does this design still work for you? We are building a new coop and will have a pop out nesting box. Our current chickens like to roost on anything and will roost on the front of their current boxes in poop where they lay. this would be a great option to keep the eggs clean. Just wondering how...
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    Duck wing injury

    Afternoon everyone! We had a horrible stray dog attack over the weekend. Had to put down one of my lovelies and one has a wing injury. The surviving Pekin has puncture wounds on her head, left eye and beak that I was able to clean and apply neosporin to. Her wing is hanging though. She...
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    Guinea Housing

    Newbie to the forum and to Guineas. We will be getting month old guineas but wasn't sure on necessary housing. My sister coops her's with the chickens so she couldn't really help. We are in East Texas and normally our winters never get below freezing and if they do only for short stretches...
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