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I did a search and dindt find anything so I"m asking. Has anyone tried lanolin on a duck with wet feather? I"m thinking I"m going to try it with one of mine that has chronic wet feather I cant seem to fix it any other way. Just hoping to find out if it has been tried and if it workede or made...

Has anyone used or heard of using black walnut to treat chickens for worms? Is it safe or ar they allergic or anything. Not in crisis or anything just doing some reading discovered that native americans used the black walnut hulls in some manner to treat internal parasites and exterior wounds...

Here is the best pics I have gotten of our new Blue Swedish Ducks we picked them up on the 30th of June when I went to get my new Bantam Chicken babies. Seen em had to break my rule and get them before I am fully ready for them. Oh well who can resist the little fuzzies. If these aren't good...

I have a Light Brahma Chick about 12 weeks old that has a strange upright stance and walk. She gets around OK maybe a little slow but drags her tail because of the upright posture. I at first thought injury but think it is a genetic issue and probably a misalignment of her pelvis. Does anyone...

Well sometime over the stormy night a varmint of some kind got a Broody Silky/Duccle mix that had snuck off to try to hatch a clutch of mixxed eggs. She had found a small hole torn in the harware cloth when the Coop/Tractor was pulled out of the way when my big coop was delivered. Anyway I knew...

Couple weeks ago because I had recently moved my house babies out to my coop, I went out at sunrise to check on them. Because I was going to be out there I went ahead and let all the girls out. We usually hold off till 8:30 which we have found drastically reduces predation. So while visiting my...

Has anyone else ever known hens to adopt a young wild bird? Last couple of days a juvenile bird possibly a black bird or starlingHas been hangind around with the flock . Like scratching around for worms with them this morning and whiule a hen will try to steal a worm from another hen I watched a...

OK not imminent but I know I want to add call ducks and probably some bigger breeds to my going chicken operation. I would plan to build or add on to the chicken run so the ducks have a space kinda to themselves especially when free ranging is not happening. like deep winter or if we are going...

Yesterday evening when I went to close up the run and collect eggs I found one of our girls hanging by one toe poor girl got tangled in one of the treat strings we have out there. We had recently rearranged and put nest boxes under one, she musta got it tangled when on top of the nesting boxes...

Well we discovered a Hen hiding on a nest chick full of eggs. hers and some others as well. No idea how old so can't eat em of course. so we dug the incubator back out and crammed as many of the for sure fertile eggs into it some of them are dark enough they might be easter eggs. I figure most...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) She is a Rhode Island red, Seems healthy otherwise normal weight she is molting about done. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She was noticed limping. Later she was found huddled in a...

I'm going to try sand down over the floor of the new shed. It comes with an osb floor and I was just going to paint over it with a garage floor type epoxy paint but am having second thoughts that that may not protect the floor enough. Can anyone suugest the cheapest stuff that would be able to...

Did a quick look didn't see anything simillar but just had to share my latest cute story. Was putting my Bantams up when one of Baby's that is now full grown jumped on the edge of the door then up on my arm because I was serving up the evening scratch. My scratch can is a plastic barrel shaped...

I have two Mille Fluer D'Uccles and two Red Cochin hens that will totally empty out the nesting area of the coop. I have put pine shavings, and straw both and even some hay. but they will scatch kick every bit of it out of the nesting area of the coop leaving it completely bare I mean they do a...

I know I could just go get eggs or chicks of any sort of bantam bred from a large fowl species but I'm intrested in trying to do it myself. what would be the steps. what birds would I need to start with. And can it be explained simply or am I gonna have to give up because my brain is no longer...

I tried a search for efficiency comparisons and didn't see what I was looking for. I"m just curious if anyone has done and egg production efficiency comparison for bantam flocks compared to full sized Hens. Based on feed consumption to egg's produced probably at a rate of three bantam eggs to...

Any snow birds or Rvers have small flocks that travel with them? I have been runing this stuff over in my head and just wonder if it would work. How long does it take before tehy start laying again after travel, or can you make them comfortable enough they don't stop laying. I have bunches of...

Well since I last posted we have added substantially to our flock The wife got a couple dozen Cornish Crosses for meat this spring And I succumbed to cuteness at the farm and home and have now brought home Three ne Batam's (nobody told me there were hobitses chickens) Cutest darn things just...

Hello my wife and I started raising chickens about 8 months ago we started with a dozen 6 each of barred rocks and rhode island red one of the reds was a rooster. She then got three americana's from her sister to try out two of those ended up being roosters (what a pain) We have since decided we...