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    Duck with hurt foot! :(

    My eight week old ducks have been free ranging with their mom and dad for a couple weeks now and just yesterday the mom took them down to our creek for the first time, which involves traveling down a somewhat steep embankment. When I went down in the evening to make sure they made it back up...
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    Emergency Inflated Rooter!

    Hi all, hoping someone can help me with this, I have a chick with this issue. I "popped" her today but she still seems puffy, though not as bad as before. Wondering if I should do it again tomorrow, and keep doing it daily until she is no longer air-filled, or if I need to wait for it to go...
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    Ruptured Air Sac - Subcutaneous Emphysema

    Hi all, I know this is an older thread but everyone here seems really knowledgable about air sac ruptures so hoping for some help. I "popped" my girl today but she still seems puffy, though not as bad as before. Wondering if I should do it again tomorrow, and keep doing it daily until she is no...
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    Problems introducing silkie chicks to flock

    The adult hens are still quite young... one hasn't even started laying yet. I don't know if I have the space or ability to give them a separate coop. Maybe they need to be sectioned off in this separate area of the run forever??
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    Problems introducing silkie chicks to flock

    Yes, I've had silkies with other types of hens before, but they were raised by a Buff Orpington mom and I guess she defended them. Should I just keep them separate for a few more weeks?
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    Problems introducing silkie chicks to flock

    Hey all, I've been keeping chickens for years but never had this much trouble introducing chicks to adult hens. I think it's because the chicks are silkies... I have only two adult hens (EE and Americauna, one laying one not yet) and one rooster, and now five silkie chicks (10-11 weeks old). I...
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    Putting baby chicks outside in winter?

    Thank you! I'm thinking when they do finally go out, I will put them in the run in a large dog crate so the other birds can see then and get used to them, and I may run an extensions cord down and put their heating plate in the run with them (it's one of the ones on legs that looks like a little...
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    Putting baby chicks outside in winter?

    They are about 5-6 weeks old now. But our nighttime temps are still getting below freezing some nights :( We've had huge swings in weather lately here...
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    Putting baby chicks outside in winter?

    I'm sorry I know there are threads about this already, but my situation is slightly unique. My chickens have always preferred to sleep open air, never actually wanting to sleep in the nice coops I have made/bought for them (eye roll) and I just built them a new run which is fully...
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    Lost my flock to a raccoon :(

    Yes it has really made me feel better <3 Thank you so much
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    Lost my flock to a raccoon :(

    Oh god I am so sorry. So glad you caught the weasel. I still have never seen a weasel in my area (Atlanta GA) but I think we have them and they scare me because they are so small and can get in anywhere. For all I know, it may have been a weasel and not a raccoon, I don't actually know for sure
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    Lost my flock to a raccoon :(

    Ugh so sorry to hear this! It's so hard!
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    Lost my flock to a raccoon :(

    That is so sweet, thank you so much
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    Lost my flock to a raccoon :(

    Ugh I am so sorry. I feel the same, always wondering what I could have done differently/better. But someone told me "we do the best we can with the knowledge that we have at the time" or something like that and I do think that's comforting...
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    Lost my flock to a raccoon :(

    Yes I noticed that they one time I actually closed them into the coop was when this happened! I thought I was protecting them but nope. Ugh :(
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