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    Need help quick

    There are chickens in a separate pen.
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    Need help quick

    have a 3 yr old Narragansett tom who is not doing well. Thought it was gapeworm, not responding to treatment. Symptoms are swollen snood, lethargic, extending his neck often, standing upright (for lack of a better term), darker head, not gobbling, watery droppings Please help
  3. das fisch

    Need help quick

    I have a 3 yr old Narragansett tom who is not doing well. Thought it was gapeworm, not responding to treatment. Symptoms are swollen snood, lethargic, extending his neck often, standing upright (for lack of a better term), darker head, not gobbling, watery droppings Please help
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    Turkey poult; drooping wings and tremors.need advice

    After isolating I treated him and the others with wazine. Still doing ok, energetic seems to be eating and drinking and the others aren't showing signs. Keeping my fingers crossed!
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    Turkey poult; drooping wings and tremors.need advice

    Sorry. They are narragansetts. No other real symptoms. Head is not dropping or withdrawn, mature feathers growing in. One thing is the second joints on the wings are very exposed, so much so that I thought there were compound fractures, but they are not. What I believe is a Tom is segregated at...
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    Turkey poult; drooping wings and tremors.need advice

    We have about a flock of eight 10 week old turkey poults (with hen) that are very energetic. Yesterday one poult developed a symptom of drooping wings and what appears to be muscle tremors in the wings. It is eating, drinking, energetic, etc. I have isolated it from the others. Is this early...
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    best way to stop one from pecking the others

    so far my plan has backfired. there are two which were getting pecked and lost the feathers on their chest, well now that they have been segregated from the others they have been pecking each other and taking the feathers off of their necks too. I'll have to seperate them into seperate crates...
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    best way to stop one from pecking the others

    i've segregated the two "victims" of the pecking, except for when they're out of the pen and have free range of the yard/woods/etc. figured then they have plenty of room to seperate and the pecker has enough distractions to keep her busy. with lows predicted down into the teens and possibly...
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    best way to stop one from pecking the others

    So I have I believe one older hen who is pecking the chest feathers off of two other hens of her same age. What is the best way to stop this from happening? I don't want to rid the flock of her as we just had to get rid of the cockerels. Also with the cold weather we have, I'm thinking of...
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    Has anybody tried ultrasonic mouse/rat control in their coops?

    in my work as a nuisance wildlife control operator, i see these frequently. It's pretty funny when I'm doing a rodent inspection or similar and the customer points out this gadget which keeps critters at bay. But all the while I'm thinking to myself; "If this darn thing works so well, why am I...
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    can high heat/humidity cause diareah?

    i've noticed in my 1+ yr old RIR's a few are having episodes of diareah. this seems to happen when we have a stretch of high heat and humidity. I was thinking that maybe it was due to drinking more water during these periods? also have a new batch or RIR's which have integrated very well, but in...
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    now who can guess this one?

    This youngin' was in a batch of four hatched by my sons class, she/he is now about 8 weeks old. I have no idea what breed this one is. size is smaller than the other three she/he came with (two what I believe are NH reds and one all white bird). Just noticed today the extra toe protruding off...
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    BATS????

    I own/operate a nuisance animal control firm in southern Maine and bat calls are a regular part of our business. If you are seeing a healthy bat population in your area, by all means do what you can to keep them in the GENERAL area. As you all have probably heard bats here on the east coast are...
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    OMG! What is this dead thing in my driveway?????

    definitely weasel, ermine in winter. i trap all mentioned above (besides mongoose). wolfwoman, do you happen to be over on t-man too?
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    Is it too early to predict if they are boys or girls.

    we're playing the same game with our four week old RIR's (or at least three look like rir's, a few might be a buff/red mix, different coloring). here's a few pics of the suspect and a pullet together. bodies are that much different, legs aren't different, just the comb seems larger and more...
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