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    Chicken fell in horse water tank

    I let my chickens out and went out an hour later to find one in the horse water tank. She was floating around with her head out of the water, but was soaked. I brought her in and used the blow dryer to dry her. She is now in front of the really warm heater and is alert. She just started eating...
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    broody hen has floppy comb and diarrhea, what can I do?

    we have d'uccles and cochins that go broody on us often. Nothing too unusual about your chicken from our experiences... amateur thought here... the droopy low blood comb 'could' signify the blood rushing to her brood, as it's supposed to. But our broodies sit right out straight quite often...
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    Droopy chicken question.

    EDIT: to start, we did the epsom salts last night w/ some molasses, and also got some baby vitamins... forget the name. She was writhing all night with her head on the ground, and this morning she got another shot of molasses. And then sometime this morning she came around. Now her head is up...
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    Droopy chicken question.

    That sounds like it:( Did you start the polyvisol right away? Sunday night and all the pet/large animal stores are closed. I could do the Epsom salt and offer molasses tonight, but don't have any bird vitamins on hand -- only human vitamins, but I suspect their needs are different than ours...
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    Droopy chicken question.

    We had a chicken go down on us 5 or 6 months ago. Head was drooping, 24 hours later it wasn't moving around at all, and then a few hours later there was no saving it. Never realized it happened so fast... it was not egg bound, not hot, no new chickens, just died, so we assumed it was bacterial...
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    ? Can you ever have 2 roosters without issues? New ? Post #16

    Small question. 2 roosters, but it's the ladies taking the beating. The bantam roo is the older leader and the much larger cochin roo is the yearling that runs around scared... but cochin is always violently jumping the girls for his two seconds of glory when bantam roo isn't looking. He does...
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    Early morning Mink battle *pictures* graphic

    sorry for the long reply. I believe it was one of his dead chickens he used when trapping. We figured the skunk was being curious.
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    Early morning Mink battle *pictures* graphic

    That sounds awful, I'd hate to lose any of ours. Almost thought we lost one just this week, till we found the broody d'uccle hiding under the porch in a crawl space under the house, stuck solid to the ground in a frozen puddle. After a bucket of water thawing her off the ground and a night...
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    Organic vs. regular layer feed

    And on that vein of imitation and eating well, I've just read a book that blew me away. Imitation foods don't need to be labeled as such if their nutrient value is the same. Even though it's obvious that honey contains many more nutrients than processed corn syrup, does the FDA acknowledge any...
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    Need to preserve lots of small chili peppers

    I'm a big fan of, 'why ask when you can google?' lol google 'pickled thai peppers' for lotsa info. or google anything, it's fun.
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    How long can i safely store eegs in the fridge?

    I've also read about the frozen egg thing... except you fill an ice tray with scrambled, not beaten, eggs. Each 'cube' is supposedly about one egg's worth of egg. Seven months though, wow, gonna have to leave one in the fridge just to see lol. Edit* Does the length an egg last change if it...
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    Error found.

    Just an fyi... I recently received an Order Update from the BYC store. Link was dead due to a folder repeat in the address: http://www.coopedup.net/store/store/account_history_info.php?order_id=xxx Once I removed the extra /store, I saw the page had a number of PHP errors in the delivery...
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    BYC Bumper Stickers - Favorites In Stock and On Sale

    As of this post, your "adhesive" link is dead, 'Product not found"... I can wait. I know your just teasing me.
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    Looking for Winter Advice- What do you wish you had known

    ams3651, 3x8 spaces are plenty for ventilating a space, and depending on the direction of the weather in your area, it is a possible draft problem. If draft is an issue, a board about 2 inches inside/outside the space is enough to stop direct breezes from blasting in, but still provide...
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    Organic vs. regular layer feed

    Quote: Wanted to go OT for a moment, a lot of farmers here, I'm a commercial fisherman. Pesticides bad, yes. But! It is NPK(our 3 big fertilizing nutrients) that is literally destroying the ocean as we know it. NPK is good for plants, and algae too. Increased algae increases O2...
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