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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    They did pathology on the fluid but it didn't give any answers other than it is NOT egg products. Although they did not find any cells to back it up, the vet suspects cancer because of the abnormal accumulation of fluid. Based on what people are saying here it sounds like heart and liver...
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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    I have a 3 year old red sex link with this, too. I took her to the vet last week and they drained 750 ml of that clear urine looking fluid and there was still more in her! The vet was amazed that she was still breathing fine, walking around and keeping her feathers clean despite that impressive...
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    The khaki-Campbell duck Thread !!!!!!!!

    We've only had one female KC who laid eggs and she was 9 1/2 months old before her first egg! She was hatched the very beginning of May last year and laid her first egg mid-Feb of this year. We've hatched 8 of her eggs and kept 2 girls. They were hatched in mid-April and no eggs so far. I expect...
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    When can ducklings be put in with drakes?

    The older duck has been with the drakes for over a year, since hatching. She actually misses her boys and doesn't seem to suffer from over mating! However, the set up we have now, the girls are in the duck pen (with the pond) during the day while the boys are just loose in the backyard and we...
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    When can ducklings be put in with drakes?

    We have 1 adult duck and 2 adult drakes. 9 weeks ago a broody chicken hatched out 2 more (female) ducks. They are already just as big as the adults! Right now we have the 3 ducks together and 2 drakes separated but I would really like to combine the two groups! The drakes are pretty aggressive...
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    Khaki Campbell ducks 22 weeks and no eggs yet. Just got one I think (picture) added.

    My KC didn't starting laying until 42 weeks! I'd nearly given up on her...Now she lays very reliably, almost every day! A couple of times we didn't find eggs in the coop and found they had been laid in the pond which is annoying! Now she always lays outside of the coop but she has her favorite...
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    Keeping drakes with layers

    Drakes can eat the same thing as the layers. It won't hurt them. :) However, you don't want to keep drakes with chickens because they will try to breed with them and the chickens can be hurt.
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    Colorado

    Is anyone looking for Khaki Campbell drake? We've had him for a year, since he was a baby but when we got our ducklings we ended up with 2 males and 1 female. He took a long time coming into his maleness but now he's fighting with our other drake (nothing serious, though) and the female is being...
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    Grey Khaki Campbell?

    I don't believe the grey one is a Campbell. He stands taller and is quite a bit thinner than the other ones. The crested one also turned out to be a boy. Thankfully they have been able to live together (1 girl, 2 boys) and not over mate the female. Grey is more aggressive and even chases the...
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    Hen pecked, vent gleet, sour crop?

    This morning her crop was still full and soft, but smaller than before. I bathed her in Epsom salt and she tolerated it fine. While she was drying, I wiped her bottom area and the white that I had seen was just poop on her feathers, not at all related to her vent! The pecked area was above the...
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    Hen pecked, vent gleet, sour crop?

    Thank you for the response! Her crop is soft and squishy again (but very full). She has been eating yogurt and drinking water which I think is a good sign! Her vent area is scabbed over bloody. I will get an anti fungal, remove her seeds and feed her soft foods. Thank you!
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    Hen pecked, vent gleet, sour crop?

    Our sickie is a black copper Marans about 1 year old. She looks completely healthy, lots of shiny feathers, red comb. I never would have suspected anything wrong with her. Yesterday my husband went to collect eggs and found 3 chickens in one (large) nest box. 2 of them were pecking this girl's...
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    Not laying for 6 months!

    The chicks are 31 weeks. I have seen one of the older girls mounting other girls, but she's mounted several of them. Why would only one have marks from it? And what can I do to protect her so her back so her feathers grow back? These are also hatchery stock. :) I Surely hope it's just a patience...
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    Not laying for 6 months!

    I have 23 chickens. 9 are from last year and 15 were hatched early May this year. When the chicks were 3 weeks we put them in a run next to the older girls. At 6 weeks we let them run together during the day and separated them at night. At 8 weeks they were together full time. We fed them grower...
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    Help with 6 week old polish, EE and Welsummer

    I have read that about the protein so I've been giving them (15 chicks) a can of tuna every other day. It has gotten better (he picked the polish until he was bleeding a few weeks ago!) so maybe it's just a process. Now he just walks around pulling at one feather on each chick (sometimes even...
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