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    Sick duck, possibly egg bound

    I found a huge article on Timber Creek Farms about water belly and I’m just going to play it by ear.
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    Sick duck, possibly egg bound

    She seemed good this morning and was up walking in the cage. My husband just checked a bit ago and thought she looked the same. I’m planning on pulling a bit more fluid off her tonight then I’ll leave that alone and see. I’ve been doing a bit of research on water belly and I’ll have to just see...
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    Sick duck, possibly egg bound

    I’m thinking it’s water belly. I can’t feel and egg at all and I did some research and tried to aspirate some fluid. I got this tannish fluid. No odor. It’s not puss just tan brown and had I had a bigger syringe I could have taken a lot off of her. She played in water and even cleaned herself...
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    Sick duck, possibly egg bound

    Last night my big duck had difficulty coming into the coop. I picked her up and her abdominal area appears swollen and distended. I’m not sure she’s egg bound but after watching a few videos I found she looks like she maybe. I read to give her some calcium and soak her and apply some...
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    Help, My hens are killing the chicks they are hatching!

    At least the baby looks good
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    Help, My hens are killing the chicks they are hatching!

    So should I pull the other eggs and incubate them and hope they hatch or let them hatch under a bird and hope I get to them quick enough?
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    Help, My hens are killing the chicks they are hatching!

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    Help, My hens are killing the chicks they are hatching!

    So this year I had two old lady birds decide to sit on a nest in my barn. Because I was in a old stall I'm not using I decided to let them. Both took up residentcy on the same nest...So I had roughly 12 eggs then they started missing...I thought maybe something was snatching them. Then there...
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    Lost two birds and I'm not sure what animals did this. Please help so I can protect my flock

    Lost two chickens out of the front yard yesterday. It was around dusk but still light out. I found feathers from whatever animal it was in multiple piles but the feathers were from the birds in the coop the two birds missing are my silver laced polish a really small bird and my rooster. Now...
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    Help with duck eggs

    We set several different breeds of duck eggs. We kept the temp and humidity right according to the paperwork sent with the eggs. We candled and marked the eggs before lock down and thought they looked good. On day 26 we had one khaki cambel duck hatch and nothing else. Today makes day 29 and...
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    Hatched Polish chickens...how do you tell the gender of this breed?

    No the black, silver laced and one gold laced all turned out to be hens with a gold laced rooster. He's gorgous:)
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    Hen pulling feathers

    I have a hen that likes to pull feathers out on the other birds. My rooster doesn't even have tail feathers because of her. She's a great layer and I don't want to get rid of her. So here's my question...do I pull her out and single her out for a while and let the others heal or do I pull out...
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    Feather pecking...please help!

    I put her in a seperate cage with water, food and a forage block to keep her occupied. She just wants to peck and her but a bit and is also fluffed up as well. I did buy some poultry nutri-drench suppliment and thought I would give her a dose tonight just to perk her up and help her heal faster...
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    Feather pecking...please help!

    I have two wayndotte hens and they went after my easter egger hen, she now has a large area of missing feathers and some raw spots that are a bit bloody. I have her quarentined and I cleaned the area and put some antiseptic on her that says it's for chickens called poultry aid. Also I put some...
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    Review by '' on item 'Black Sex Link chicken'

    Love my two girls...They are just wonderful. Easy to tame and very friendly, both of mine are easy to pick up and like people. They lay on average an egg a day for the most part sometimes every other day. I do live in Michigan and do not keep lights on them so some of my egg production is due to...
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