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    Dehydration: Symptoms, Cure and Prevention

    How old is she could she be broody? Is there a chance she's too hot? What breed? Have you felt her going to see if it's full hard squishy?
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    Can you MAKE a hen go BROODY?

    In that case I should bring them in and continue to let them think summer continues... They each have been broody 3x this year. although I am little worried about having them Broody again. usually I just let them go twice a year.
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    Can you MAKE a hen go BROODY?

    I'm wondering if I can induce the natural hormone by tricking my broody hens into thinking that it's really warm weather and time to be broody in November. I live in Vancouver BC so the winters are not usually harsh but I was considering moving them into a furnace room in wire dog crates and...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I don't think you would hurt in the process. But be very gentle with those eggs
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    A Day With My Flock

    Here's hoping I can help someone else. As Pumpkin the turkey spoke earlier she has something going on with her sinuses. Last night a friend and I drained 3 cc's of fluid from her nasal passage. To do this we used a 16 gauge needle with a 5 CC syringe. I held the bird and she inserted the...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    We'll just make sure they're safe from predators weather and have a shallow bowl of water and took scratch and I'm sure she'll do the rest for you! There's such miraculous creatures aren't they? One of my Icelandic X brahmas hatched out 7 turkey poults for me!
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Broody love...
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    A Day With My Flock

    Hi! What you looking at? Is it my turn? Hello my name is Lucy. That is with a fur on the end of it. Get it? Lucifer/Lucy? As others have told you Mom can not sex a chick for her life! Or maybe it was just wishful hoping that I was a girl. Well I'm not a girl! I am the Lucifer and if I can find...
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    A Day With My Flock

    My name is Pumpkin. I don't feel very well. I have sinusitis and pretty soon mom's going to have to do something about it. She's just trying to get up the nerve as a week and a half of antibiotics did not do the trick. I am a sweet turkey that never gets into any trouble. Unlike my big sister...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    My OEGB, Olivia likes to co brood with her Frizzle friend Lily usually only once a year. This year they hatched out six guinea fowl and she looked after them till they were 3 months old and three times the size of herself! Have you left the eggs under your Henrietta? Then swap the chicks for...
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    A Day With My Flock

    Well my friends, it's been a long time. Just over a year and a lot has changed. I've started hatching my own Barnyard eggs between the Icelandic brahmas X with a beautiful Americana rooster named L.D.Silver! He's very active shall we say! And the ladies are getting used to him. My chicken math...
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    Dehydration: Symptoms, Cure and Prevention

    @ leash a worm Is your baby still alive?
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    A Day With My Flock

    Hello fellow chicken lovers! I'm so happy! I got myself a serema roo! At least that is what I was told it was. Body shape is right but a little bigger then what they are suppose to be. Anyway, the reason I am writing today it that this 1.5 y/o roo had very long spurs. He hasn't been...
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    A Day With My Flock

    Hi! Today my name is Angel. This is my itty bitty self. I'm a splashed Frizzle x Cochin bantam. My mom, Bo loves me the best! Aunt Harmony is a crazy broody who wants to kill us tiny chicks. Everyone else is really nice to us. I'm glad mom decided to let Bo keep us. I'm only 3 weeks old. I am...
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    A Day With My Flock

    it is a gland all chickens have them you will often see them rubbing it and then on their feathers
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