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    Best Rooster Food?

    Hi everyone, TLDR: ISO a delicious varied feed for a rooster with no hens, available in the US. I've taken in a little rescue bantam rooster. I don't have any chicken hens, just a few ducks, with whom he has integrated beautifully. I'm looking for a nutritious food for him that he will love as...
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    Feathered Roo's Red Legs (normal?)

    ah, gotcha, thank you
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    Feathered Roo's Red Legs (normal?)

    Pull the feathers out??? Can you please elaborate on how and why I would do this?
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    Feathered Roo's Red Legs (normal?)

    Thank you. I haven't observed any pecking at his legs, but I will keep an extra eye out for it now. I put salve on his clear injuries and his legs daily for the first week that I had him and it seemed like he was a bit extra sensitive to me touching his legs, but it wasn't so dramatic as to be...
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    Feathered Roo's Red Legs (normal?)

    I recently rescued this young little frizzle rooster. He was in bad shape with scabs and wounds all over his comb, super underweight, tail, wing, and leg feathers mostly all broken. I think he'd lived all of his short life in an overcrowded wire cage. Anyhow, I've never had a chicken with...
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    Is it relaxation or is it a stress response?

    I'm about to bathe a little rescue roo that has landed in my care unexpectedly. He is filthy, underweight, and has a lot of damaged feathers, red inflamed skin, places where he has been pecked. I want to clean him and get a better look at his skin. Since I've never bathed a chicken before I...
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    Fall Dumped Ducklings. Not a Recipe!

    I know this is a very old thread, but one of my ducks is going to be euthanized and I asked the vet if there was as sedative I could give him before taking him to the vet's as I didn't want his last hour to be so frightened (riding in car, being at vet) and said to give him 30 mg of...
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    Thank you so much for all of the time you took responding to my duck troubles here; so kind. I now think that it may be the joint that most of us would think of as his knee. Tomorrow I'll see if I can get him to walk so I can film him. He is off his feed, but tonight I got him to eat some...
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    thank you - I think that I had seen some photos of bumbles that weren't really bumbles then. I'm sort of relieved it's not bumble foot, but of course, that leaves me in the mystery. I'll try to take him to a vet next week, but historically even our local vets who seemingly know ducks, have...
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    no, doesn't flinch much no matter where I palpate, all up and down foot and leg (he is very stoic)
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    Hmmmm, not bumbles? If that is the case I'm back to original thought which was that he had injured leg higher up. He's in a crate in the house now, just sitting (his complacency is highly unusual) so I cannot get a video of him walking, but I can tell you that he can barely walk at all and for...
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    Okay, I thought it was just his left leg that was hurt, but looking closely, I think he has bumbles on both feet. I'm new to bumbles, so confirmation would be great. Thing is, his left leg which is the one has been obviously hurting him, might have something else going on as well? It's very...
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    omg, thank you so much! I so appreciate the step by step - wading through endless conversations trying to parse it out was confusing and exhausting. I'm about to have a closer look at him (he's been having a bath first) and will likely return with questions.
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    Master thread on Bumble Foot?

    I searched the stickies and I'm surprised that it seems like we don't have a primary information post about bumble foot. Am I missing something? I'll go read the many individual conversations, but hoping I'm missing a centralized information thread.
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    Ducks and Cannabis

    I just returned to this topic and wanted to say that birds indeed have endocannabinoid systems just like humans, other mammals, and reptiles. Even fish and mollusks have endocannabinoid systems.
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