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    How Long Should I Keep a Jerk Separated?

    I’m buildin I’m buildin! Concrete is scheduled for Friday!
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    Duckling spent the night upside down

    Side note in case anyone else happens across this later: probably the biggest reason I kept him in the house for as long as I did was to make sure he had enough wing to stay upright despite having the wibblewobbles.
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    How Long Should I Keep a Jerk Separated?

    I have 11 Ameraucana chicks that are 7 weeks old. They’re in a space that is admitedly a little small (an XXL dog kennel inside the barn)(barn itself is not predator-proof) for the next week or so while the new coop is getting built. I usually sit with them for a while every day, and yesterday...
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    Duckling spent the night upside down

    Thank you for your replies! Everybody had been getting niacin but I’d forgotten about vitamins (even though I looked straight at them that morning). As an update to close this out: I kept him “hospitalized” in the house with a buddy for a few days, had aquatherapy in the tub once or twice a...
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    Duckling spent the night upside down

    About a week ago I put my 4-week-old batch of ducklings in the coop with my dozen year-old Anconas. Everything was going well. Yesterday morning I opened the coop and they all came boiling out together like normal, but I heard cheeping from inside the coop. I opened the door and saw a duckling...
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