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    Considering mini dairy goats... Mini-mancha vs. Mini-Nubian?

    Great info! I, too, am just getting started in goats, and have a chance to buy a mini lamancha in milk to add to the nigerians I am getting soon...it seems like those who have them won't part with them...think I might go for it! (IF I can convince my hubby that the price is worth it)
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    HELP! SICK 10 week old hen- Only stands still and drinks with closed eyes

    I have no idea what her illness is, but if she has bugs on her, powder her good with some DE asap, and it'll at least relieve her of the bugs :)
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    New Hampshire!!

    Originally Posted by kat e wampus easter eggers they even have a shiny new golf ball to help encourage them. the signs i keep reading about are there (their little combs are red, Red, RED!) i'm soooooooo excited and can't wait for my first egg!!! BREWEDinNH: "Did you get them locally...
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    New Hampshire!!

    The girls LOVE their dust baths....I keep a pile of Diotomaceous Earth in the hen house for them to use...they love it and it keeps flies and mites away.
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    Please help - look at this picture - worm or intestine or ????

    Thanks for following up...I was curious...Glad she's ok!! :)
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    Hen under the weather...just old?

    I have a BR hen (almost 2 yrs old) who is walking very slowly, sitting a lot...not eating much or drinking since she has to stand to do so....thought she might be egg bound, so I brought her in and gave her a good 20 minute soak, which she loved once she settled....dunked her head in and drank a...
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    Hi all! I am venturing into the world of chickens as a Grammy :) My dh raised meat birds once or twice when the kids were little, but I am excited to have gotten 18 "dual purpose hens" (because a friend wanted 3 or 4, and figuring that I'd lose a few...lol...she decided not to take any and I...
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    deworming chickens????????????????

    Quote: There are no stupid questions. Not all chickens get worms, some get them from bacteria in the soil or insects they eat others get them from feces either in their food or water. We had one hen that had gotten gape worm from a bacteria that lives in the intestine of earth worms, but the...
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    dieing Silkie

    Quote: Awww.....I'm sorry....I can't imagine finding one feet up....thanks for the warning, that would have freaked me out! It is sounding like a sour crop....my grand daughters had fed them a bunch of leaves earlier that day, maybe that wasn't a good idea
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    dieing Silkie

    Quote: Sorry for your loss too! (These lil Silkies get under your skin, don't they!?)....Sounds similar...just not a "normal-feeling crop" like it was full of that goopy stuff that the kids play with....slime I think it's called....she was running around pecking at my toes like normal earlier...
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    dieing Silkie

    Ok, she's gone now....any suggestions would be helpful....my Roo died while I was gone, and I have no idea what from, so I'll appreciate all the help I can get!
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    !HELP! Turkey poult attacked by cat and poisoned?

    If he makes it thru the night, try getting some colloidal silver, and get him to drink it. It's a natural anti-biotic (we use it ourselves!) and you can't give him too much. :^)
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    dieing Silkie

    I just went out to shut the girls in, and found one of my Silkies (pullet) limp and cool...she has very little life left in her....I can feel every bone in her neck, and though her crop is puffy (almost flabby), it's not hard as though impacted. I don't expect her to last more than another hour...
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    CHICKEN SWAPS OF NH SWAP LISTINGS

    Quote: Do you have a broody hen? I had eggs broken (and eaten) when my hen was trying to steal eggs from other nest boxes...she actually succeeded occasionally, but I have no idea how!! Anyhoo, I gave her some "fake eggs" and though she occasionally moves the fake ones, she is not stealing...
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    CHICKEN SWAPS OF NH SWAP LISTINGS

    Quote: Try putting a bagof frozen peas with a little bedding to cover it under her. Works for me every time. Oh!! I'll try that!! I have a hen who's been sitting on fake eggs for a month too! I thought she'd have quit by now...before that she was stealing other hens eggs! I have NO CLUE...
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