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  1. J

    Can a fertile egg be refrigerated and later be put in an incubator?

    How did they know they were fertile when they bought them?
  2. J

    Don't eat that.

    Mine eat the lubbers and the stink bugs. All are still alive and doing fine. One duck was sick for a day. Maybe it was a lubber, maybe not. Where are the sources saying they are poisonous?
  3. J

    Black (eastern lubbers) grass hoppers.

    They are Plymouth Rock. I looked it up.
  4. J

    Don't eat that.

    My chickens eat stink bugs and eastern lubbers. My Pekin ducks just eat the lubbers.
  5. J

    Black (eastern lubbers) grass hoppers.

    Mine do. They have been sick randomly but I can't say for sure if it's the lubbers. We have the black and white kind of chicken and Pekin ducks. The ducks eat them too. Not sure how is ever stop them from doing it since they free range.
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    Droopy comb, runny poop, drooping tail, 4yo hen, sick

    Thank you so much for the information. What you are describing sounds pretty spot on for water belly. So it sounds like there isn't much chance she pulls through? Is a 4 yo hen old? Is there anything we could do different to prevent this in future birds? We buy the largest feed bag possible for...
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    Hatchling!

    Hi everyone I'm new her obviously. My name is Johnny and with my fiancee Stephanie we are starting a little 'homestead'. It's really just 5 acres in the nature coast of Florida. We have a horse (Gypsy), a pony (Peaches), 2 dogs (Kota and Bailey), 1 old hen (Mahi), two new hens (Nugget and...
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    Droopy comb, runny poop, drooping tail, 4yo hen, sick

    We have a 4 year old hen. We just lost one chicken that slowly lost weight and eventually stopped eating all together and I had to put her down. We tried everything short of the vet to save her... Cleaning coop, moving coop, changing food, draining for sour crop (which she had before and...
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