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    Looking at them, you’d think there isn’t a single perch.

    Oh no, Mum. Five metres of empty perches and four more empty cubbies aren’t the same. This is the only good spot.
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    Preserving chicken skin with feathers attached?

    Hi! I wound up with three gorgeous hybrid roosters that I can’t use for stud. I’d like to sell their capes intact. How did you cut the skin to keep it whole?
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    What to do with chicken skin?

    Hi there! I know this is an old post, but I’ve not seen anything else helpful. What pattern/method did you follow to cut away the skin in a single piece?
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    Any advice for a special needs duckling

    hi! Rivet has been away from her hatching group for four or five days now. We tried reintroducing her at 4d. She did not keep up and was being pecked and stepped upon. I have not put any aids on her for the last two days because she eats less when wearing the brace. She’s also prone to getting...
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    Any advice for a special needs duckling

    Thank you! I accidentally posted before I was done writing. If you've got any insight (now that I've written the whole thing lol) I would really appreciate it :)
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    Any advice for a special needs duckling

    This is Rivet. She* is 10 days old and one of 27 ducklings from her nest. Right now, I'm raising her indoors because she has a bad twist in her spine that essentially makes her hunchbacked. She was knocked out of the nest when she was still wet from hatching. After three days in the indoor...
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    do you kiss/cuddle your ducks?

    I spend a great deal of time with my birds. Right now I'm house-raising a duckling that has a bad twist in her spine. I try to cuddle and carry etc. with her as much of the day as I'm able to keep her socialized and not feeling lonely. I don't eat or drink when I'm handling her; try to keep her...
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    [MEDIA] Yesterday Rivet found a worm bigger than herself

    Yesterday Rivet found a worm bigger than herself
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    Hunchback duckling. HELP!

    I don’t have an answer for why the deformation happened. She was in a nest of ~38 eggs shared by two hens. We had 27 successful hatches. Ten eggs were pushed out halfway through, and I put them in the indoor incubator. After a few days we pitched the eggs that had obviously died and returned the...
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    Duckling hunched over, lethargic. Advice please

    I would recommend grit—we use crushed oyster shells for our Muscovies—as it sounds like that’s missing from his diet. Ducks don’t have teeth, so they must consume grit to do the work of grinding up the food in their bellies. Without that gut process a bird cannot access the nutrition available...
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    Hunchback duckling. HELP!

    Rivet is a one-week-old Muscovy with a prominent twist and hunch in her spine. (Unsexed, we just call the duckling female.) I brought her inside the day she hatched because she had been knocked out of the nest and neither Mama 1 or Mama 2 were interested in getting her back with the group...
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    How to encourage consistent whole-flock laying times?

    My question: is there anything we can do to get the girls to lay timed more closely together? DETAILS: We purchased five adult hens (three bantams and two cochin x) and nine white sapphire chicks a month ago from a bad overcrowded environment. They were tightly individually caged and the lights...
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    Do Quails Need Sandbath Boxes?

    Hi! How much DE for how many birds? My partner and I recently had a DE scare and I want to keep him from any more guesswork accidents.
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