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    Diary of a Crossbeak: Support for Special Needs Chickens and their Keepers

    Mine couldn't eat on her own at all, not with wet mash or a giant bowl all to herself. I couldn't keep up with feeding her manually with my work schedule and being out of town for days. No doubt it's a last resort, but chickens are really though and adaptable. I'd be extremely interested to see...
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    Diary of a Crossbeak: Support for Special Needs Chickens and their Keepers

    Has anyone ever tried just cutting the top beak clean off and cauterizing it? Last year I had a super sweet crossbeak that I had to put down, and this year one of my week-old bantams shows the first signs. I was going to return and exchange it, but I was thinking about poor Glitch and all her...
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    Rooster recovered from wry neck, will he crow?

    I had a chick develop wry neck after getting chewed on by an escaped rat. I thought it was a hen, so I hand-fed it for a month until it could feed itself. A couple weeks later it stopped holding its' head upside down completely, but even now he's still uncoordinated and often spins in circles...
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    I fell in love, please don't tell me this GL wyandott is a roo

    :/ It doesn't have any saddle feathers at all though, it's too young. My 8 week old chicks that are roosters are just now growing in those plastic-like feather sheaths for their saddle feathers and you can't see them at all unless you lift up their back feathers to check underneath them.
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    I fell in love, please don't tell me this GL wyandott is a roo

    It's straight run, I wanted roosters as well as hens for feathers so I didn't care to get the more expensive pullet chicks for them. It's a lot lighter colored than the other GLWs I got and grew its' feathers in slower, but the back feathers didn't lag behind in developing like my old australorp...
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    I fell in love, please don't tell me this GL wyandott is a roo

    I really wanted a house-chicken that I was going to litter train and everything, so I got a pair of day-old EE pullets in the hope that one would be pet material(1 of them might be). In the meanwhile though, one of the 4-week-old straight run gold-laced wyandotts I got for craft feathers/meat...
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    Newbie chicken enthusiast, just saying hi.

    Those are cute too, if I can find any locally I wouldn't mind one. I live in a separate building from the house, so I don't have to worry about convincing my mom too much. :) Thanks for the welcome~
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    dogs and chickens

    I have a 3y/o collie mix who's great with small animals(rats, kittens, lizards, etc). When I first put him in the shed with my chicks he went straight to finding 'presents' and the chicks ran over thinking they were losing out on food. He gave a little warning wuff(he's sometimes food aggressive...
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    Newbie chicken enthusiast, just saying hi.

    Hello~ I've been lurking for a month, reading several threads every day, and still it seems I've barely scratched the surface of chickendom. I got my first ever batch of chickens about 3 weeks ago as a source of chicken skins for my art projects, but after reading that it's possible to...
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    Something we can put in our yard to keep cats out?

    A bigger, meaner cat? :3 I have a massive spayed Siamese mix who patrols the backyard just daring any other cats(or dogs, or small humans) to step over the invisible line. She's fat and lazy otherwise though, so she doesn't do more than stare at my chicks disconcertingly.
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