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    Magpie Geese

    I just hatched some for the local zoo in Darwin, Northern Territory. Very different to regular geese, as these you have to assist with feeding as babies. I wet the crumble and handfeed it to the bub as close to a dabbling bill as I can get so he can eat it from my fingers. I constantly dip it...
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    Spots in light sussex neck lacing. What causes this?

    I've noticed quite a lot of light sussex chickens sold in my area have really bad "spots" throughout their lacing. I've been told by a few breeders that it's the result of inbreeding, or breeding a coronation parent over a light sussex, then breeding another generation from the young resulting...
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    How to train my Border Collie to herd my chickens

    I have an elderly friend who has a kelpieXborder collie that she uses to herd her rhode island red chickens every afternoon, and in the morning there is one pair my friend likes to keep locked up, and she can make the dog keep them separate so that they stay in the pen, or herd them back in if...
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    sexing salmon faverolles--still confused (update)

    Lol whoops, my bad. Just scrolling on by and was like "Hey, I can answer this question." Guess I was 5 years too late haha!
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    sexing salmon faverolles--still confused (update)

    My first ever faverolles chick I hatched (local pick up eggs and only hatched 1 chick!!) I noticed the wings were black at that young age and I got so upset, as I really wanted a girl. Then a week or so later it turned out to be a girl. So just wait it out, I was just lucky that I didn't sell it...
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    Can I Add A Cool Down Horse Feed Into My Chickens' Diet To Help Them In My Hot Climate?

    Bit of a different question. I live in a really hot and humid tropical climate; great for bantams. However I have a friend with a salmon faverolles hen that is really struggling with this heat. My faverolles is doing very well, I'm not sure if it's diet difference, different ventilation in our...
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    what other birds can be housed with Red Golden Pheasants?

    I have pigeons, japs and bobwhites in with my goldens. My goldens are terribly friendly, but if I am raking out the aviary and one of my chickens walks in the pheasants will "ram" the chicken to kick them out. I've never had pheasants get out as it is an enormous run and they tend to stay at one...
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    Slipped Tendon in Chick

    Thank you both for your replies. Ciqala, mine has her leg at an almost 90 degree angle, she's a little worse than yours but I'll try wrap it like that, might give her a bit of a break from her ankle being leaned on all the time. It's nice to see however that she is functioning quite fine with...
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    Slipped Tendon in Chick

    I hatched my first lot of welsummers ending up with only 5 chicks, all hens. One of them however on the second day I noticed an injury so I isolated her indoors. Each day the leg got worse not matter how I tried to fix it (I assumed splayed legs) so I did a bit more research. Turns out its a...
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    Can you clip ringneck pheasants wings so they can't fly?

    I've lost numerous gamebirds to self injury and had to switch to a shade cloth roof as to not loose my pheasants like the many quails before them ever going in there, however if something really wanted to get into the aviary I don't think the shade cloth will do much good apart from just cutting...
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    What breeds to use to make a Lakenvelder???

    We can't get lakenvelders or vorwerks in Australia, I was hoping someone could answer what lakenvelders are bred from :( Pretty shitty import laws here, can't get anything from outside of Australia and when people tried legally, it backfired from one case of salmonella so 4000 baby chicks, 10...
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    Rolling head on duckling?

    I have a khaki campbell duckling that was born on the 7th of July (its the 15th now) and he has been healthy up until today when I went to feed him in the morning. I noticed him curled up and his head rolling into his back, and not as enthusiastic to come up to me, at all. I took him out for a...
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    What Are The Funniest Places You Have Found Your Chicken Hiding Her Eggs?

    Haha clever chooks! I can just imagine going to scoop some pine chips out to find a egg sitting on top. I'm surprised mine haven't thought of that with the opened soil/mulch bags I have lying around the garden.... And the clothes peg bag! Man mine is a basket hanging up high on a hills-hoist...
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    What Are The Funniest Places You Have Found Your Chicken Hiding Her Eggs?

    Just out of curiousity, as I have had some clever chooks over the years to know what creativity everyone else has seen with their girls. Doesn't have to be chooks, can be ducks, turkeys, geese, doves and more. Mine personally was the front seat of a single cabin ute/pick up. The chook kept...
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    Are sebrights a hard or soft feather bantam? My local poultry show does not have a true bantam secti

    I have having difficulties trying to figure out how to put my sebrights into the correct category for my local poultry show. Being a very small scale poultry show, it doesn't even have a section just for sebrights (they do have a pretty detailed section for OEG though including every colour...
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