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    Who’s the daddy?

    I have a weird question, hopefully I can phrase it correctly. My hens free range with a BCM rooster. I also have 2 other roos but they’re in a “bachelor pad” separately. I want to cross my BCM girls to my olive egger rooster, but she’s been with the BCM roo for months. How long do I have...
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    Sensing sick rooster?

    Poor guy. At least he had a few good last weeks and he passed quickly. He hatched here so I was rather attached to him.
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    Sensing sick rooster?

    Just the big one. They never touched one another prior. What surprised me was the RIR ran from him screaming. That would normally never ever happen. Maybe the BCM saw weakness in that. I thought the BCM had lost his mind honestly because it was obvious he was trying to kill him. I let him loose...
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    Sensing sick rooster?

    I posted a few months ago about my roosters fighting and wanted to update what ended up happening. I had 2 roosters in a flock of 28. The RIR roo was the alpha and BCM was younger. The RIR would chase the BCM away but it never progressed to fighting. There was an order and everything was...
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    Who has a bachelor pad?

    They don’t fly out?
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    Who has a bachelor pad?

    We are building 2 bachelor pads for our Roos in our breeding program and I was wondering if anyone had pics of there’s?
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    Sick young drake

    Not sure if this has anything to do with what’s going on with him but he started to sound wheezy so I thought he had a URI, upon inspection he had a nasty wad of straw all the way up in his nostril. So far up I could only see it with a flashlight. Took me 2 hours to work out. Came out with a...
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    Sick young drake

    I have him inside in a zippered pet play pen until I figure out what’s going on with him. You can tell he doesn’t feel well so I’m worried everyone will pick on him just because even if that’s not the initial cause.
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    Sick young drake

    He was born August 20. He’d be 4 months now
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    Sick young drake

    Yes I’m sure he got better in the house. I found him almost unresponsive and unable to walk a few weeks ago. It was also very cold out, so I warmed him up. After a few days inside he was biting the crap out of me again and eating vivaciously which is his normal personality. It’s not cold...
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    Sick young drake

    His feather were clipped. He almost flew over our privacy fence and my neighbor has aggressive dogs. This was done a while ago.
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    Sick young drake

    2 of the female are Pekin. They’re terrified of life I doubt they’re bullying anyone.
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    Sick young drake

    At night he goes up with his dad and 4 female ducks including mom. We also have geese and turkeys. Everyone free ranges on 3 acres during the day. Their feeding station is two 9 foot long PVC pipes.
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    Sick young drake

    Hey all! I have a mama who was sitting on eggs for what seemed like forever. One actually hatched and he’s a couple months old now. We have had no issues with him til now. Normally he is feisty like mom and will bite the crap out of us. I found him one day in the yard and he looked weird. I...
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    Caring for my hen in the end

    Wanted to post another update. We got another 2 months out of Laverne. She went back outside and had a normal life for about a month, I brought her inside on her perch when it was extreme cold and she ended up choosing not to go outside anymore. She passed away on Sunday peacefully. Probably her...
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