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    Can't believe what my hubby did to my unhatched chicks!!!!!

    passive aggressive behavior for sure...he said "you have enough chickens"? I can't imagine anyone 'helping' with someone else's project, be it an incubation, painting, gardening project, whatever, without checking in with the person who is overseeing the project. You need may need to put a...
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    foot infection, disease?

    Thank you for the ideas. I never saw any blackness as I might expect with frostbite, but I'll hope it is that. Will the swelling eventually go down? It seems a little worse lately, rather than getting better. I'll also oil her feet...can't hurt, right? Thanks again!
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    foot infection, disease?

    found the camera charger!!
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    foot infection, disease?

    We have a one-year-old hen in a flock of 25 with an troublesome foot problem. It is not bumblefoot or scaly leg. It has not spread to the other chickens in the two weeks or so since I've noticed it. I don't think it is frostbite, as nothing is black. So, after getting all of that out of the...
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    Help! Chick hatched with egg yolk!

    Hi, sorry to say this, but that does not look normal, or like the egg yolk. The abdomen should look like it's swollen with a gumball --because the chick has absorbed the egg yolk into it. Whenever I've seen a partially hatched chick with the egg yolk on the outside, the egg yolk looks like...
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    Community Nest?

    I have a community nest in the corner of the coop. Two Muscovey ducks built and filled it with eggs. A third Muscovey duck joined them. There are about 20 duck eggs in it. Last week a Red Comet hen joined them. I tried to move her to a broody hutch that I have, but she refused to sit on the...
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    Do ducks take longer to die than chickens?

    Hi, perhaps an odd question, but my husband noticed that the ducks take longer to go than the chickens we've butchered. We are slicing the jugular and letting them bleed out in a killing cone. He says the ducks take a lot longer to stop twitching and he takes of the head to make sure they...
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    Long Term Prognosis for Egg Yolk Peritonitis

    I used the calcium as Cathy suggested, but gave it to her subcutaneously, not orally. Now, a few months later, the bottle is still full, but moldy. Is there any way to keep a bottle from getting moldy...there were no directions on it...but perhaps keeping it in the fridge?
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    Two or more eggs stuck in hen

    Good morning, We decided to give her the night to see if she laid by morning. She had not and was still having labored breathing, so we put her down. I have never seen a chicken die more happily, to be honest. One big sigh of relief. She went fast, no twitching. Then, I did an autopsy...
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    How many Muscovy Ducks to keep through the winter?

    Oh my goodness! Thanks for the warning. We have two drakes and like them both. It's so hard to choose which one to keep! I'm thinking I'll trim down to one drake and three hens through the winter because they are a bit crowded in the coop and I certainly don't need 90 ducklings next...
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    Two or more eggs stuck in hen

    I have an egg-bound hen. I can see the egg pushing against her vent. During a hot bath, I can put a finger in her vent and feel at least two, if not three, hard eggs lined up to come out. This is a hen who has not laid in a few months. She is probably an internal layer and every so often...
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    8-week old chicks pecking at each others' eyes

    Hi, I have a flock of about 60 chickens and ducks who free range. Eleven are pullets that were hatched out under a few broody hens. The mamas recently gave the chicks the big good-bye, so the chicks are merging into a social group...I thought. I think there are at least three roo's and...
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    Do you have a cat?

    We have two cats, but only one is interested in the poultry. He is a 17-pound overgrown teenage boy, who is all black. Thus, we play Nat-Geo Wild when he is out 'stalking' the chickens and ducks: (in a stage whisper and with a British accent) "The black panther stalks his prey. He slithers...
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    How many Muscovy Ducks to keep through the winter?

    I currently have 8 Muscovies that we hatched out this spring, under a hen. Six are ducks and two are drakes. We want to raise them for meet. Any idea how many ducks I should keep through the winter? One drake obviously. My understanding is that they do not lay in the winter, easily go...
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    Anyone try blu-cote for vent gleet?

    Hi, thanks for your replies everyone. I thought I would just post that the Blu-cote seems to work really well. Of course, I have no controls for this study. It could be the Epsom salts or feather trimming that is working. Or the fermented mash. However, I don't think it would be humane...
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