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    Poor chick

    Thank you for your kind advice, I have considered euthanasia but if the one eye is fine, so it is. A heat lamp would be easier but I live off grid and things that create heat from electricity are a no go. So hot water bottle it is. At this point it s not suffering that I can see. Act just like...
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    Poor chick

    Truthfully, I brought the chick inside to die in peace. I have two of the worst broodies in the world and this lone 8 hour old chick was a bloody mess on the floor of the coop. Day 3 has me refilling the jars of hot water to keep it warm, giving it water with an old syringe. One eye is gone, the...
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    broody again

    You would think after years of chickens, I would have seen it all. I have a speckled Sussex that went broody a while back ( and a poor broody she was, she smothered the first chick, one disappeare, and she has one left.) They had been sleeping on the roost together, but now she has decided to...
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    Feather changes in an older roo

    I am still working on how to post Picts from iPhone or iPad. My have to pull out my laptop.
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    Feather changes in an older roo

    I have a 6 year old hatchery white leghorn roo that has had a change in the texture of his feathers. A year or so ago his feather had the normal smooth surface of a leghorn, now most of his feather are fluffy like a mixed breed silkie. Is this a normal happening? I have been able to find info...
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    Re-integrating post broody hen.

    I have had to segregate a hen to a corner of my duck pen since some hen cannibalized one of the pekin duck eggs she is sitting on. Hatch day is tomorrow and life if crazy in the duck pen too. She is in a fenced off area with a pair of eight week old ducks that are being terrorized by the grown...
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    Introducing young ducks to the rest of the flock

    Glad to see this tread, I have been trying to integrate an eight week old pekin hen and runner drake to my grown pekin drake and pair of hens. They have been in a portion of the run divided by a board. Yesterday I tried adding them in but it ended up bloody. This morning two of the grown ups had...
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    Pekin behaviors

    OH thank you, I love having, the conversations can be pretty funny.
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    Pekin behaviors

    Ah shucks, I was hoping for some words of wisdom about egg laying patterns and odd mating behaviors in Pekins.
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    Pekin behaviors

    In March I got a turkey and a pair of Pekins and a pair of runner ducks. All was good, I even got M/F pairs of each. They where all in one coop. Along came the Valley fire and my last step was to open the coops as I left. When I was able to come home a week later( yes I was very luck) I had lost...
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    How to keep a rooster but still have edible eggs?

    Oh, and there is a pretty cool discription of making a capon (castrating) on here somewhere. But it is surgery.
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    How to keep a rooster but still have edible eggs?

    One of the differences that home grown eggs is that eggs with "defects" ( blood spots, or random bits of odd looking tissue) are found by the end consumer (you.) In commercial operations those ends are separated and not sold for the whole eggs market. If it bothers you crack the egg into a...
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    Ok to feed flock raiser to chicks and hens?

    Flock raiser should be fine. I use it after my chicks finish the medicated bag so that I only need to buy one type of feed. It even has a higher protein content as I remember. This is also the feed to use if you have chicks hatched by your broody as it is not medicated and OK for the rest of the...
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    Can I make one of my friendly silkies "adopt" new cochin chicks?

    If you have hens that are truly broody they might take the chicks. I think you are suppose to sneak them under when the hen is sleeping (at night) Otherwise best to raise them apart and merge later when they are at decent size. (This is what I do)
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    Fattening up a dual purpose roo

    Today I gave him the last of the fried rice. I like the idea of scratch and mash. I will report how it works. Thanks for the input.
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