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    I'm Sending Feed to be Analyzed

    Yes, I understand that- that's why I clarified the ages of my birds... I have 4 hens that will be 3 in May- everyone else is under 2 years old, some are in their first winter. I'm in Minnesota, my birds always molt in the fall. Also we've had a very mild winter this year, the warmest winter...
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    I'm Sending Feed to be Analyzed

    (Disclaimer: I didn't read through the whole thread) My hens quit laying right before Halloween, which is abnormal. My oldest hens will be 3 in May and my youngest will be 1 in July. I have a very wide variety of breeds. I've gone through several winters with chickens, so I know that my older...
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    Urgent! Please respond ASAP if possible

    High humidity does not cause large air cells- low humidity does. The higher the humidity, the less moisture can escape the eggs during incubation. Can you post pictures of what the eggs look like candled? Are these your eggs or were they shipped?
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    Anyone stopped eating chicken after raising chicken?

    Not to steer this off topic, but you know the "chicken" at McDonald's is hardly chicken meat at all, right? Very very different than raising your own birds to process and eat. With home grown chicken, you control what those birds have eaten, if they've been medicated, how they were raised and...
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    Ahh okay, then how about Luhmann Homestead?
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    Announcement April Fools 2022 - Reserve Your New Username NOW!

    Can I just do "MorningGlory"?
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    Bumble foot

    That's very interesting, thank you. I didn't see the post where OP said this chick hadn't been exposed to freezing temps, I thought they had said the chick was outside without bedding in January. Being a Minnesotan, I assumed frostbite. I suppose all of OP's chicks would have similar feet issues...
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    Bumble foot

    That's why I said "forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something".... it really looks like frostbite to me, but since you mentioned it- what else can lead to necrotic toes? I've never heard of anything else causing it, and I'd like to learn (and others probably would too) so it can be avoided in...
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    Bumble foot

    Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something, but how did a chick get frostbite so bad that he's losing his feet if you have them inside under a heat lamp? That's just not possible. I'm not sure where you're from, but I raise Silkies in northern Minnesota and I've only ever had one get...
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    Bumble foot

    I was just going to say this... That's definitely frostbite, and that chick is definitely too young to have been outside in winter. Especially with no bedding... Do you have other chicks outside? They should be in a secure, draft free building with a heat lamp and lots of clean bedding. If this...
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    Great Pyrenees - to buy or not to buy?

    I have an almost 7 year old great pyr. We actually had him years before we got other animals so he wasn't trained to guard as a pup, but he's amazing with all of them. Never so much as snapped at my chickens, goats or turkeys. I've never heard of them being aggressive towards anything. We bought...
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    What is my Rooster trying to tell me?

    I don't want to be a party pooper, but I had a rooster that behaved similar to yours (never a lap bird though) When he was about a year old, it turned into full on attacking. He was my first cockerel too, and I spent a lot of time holding and feeding him. As soon as he got that surge of...
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    About perianal adenoma

    Oh gosh, I'm sorry, I totally read that wrong! Again, I have no experience with this, never even heard of it before- I just thought it was odd to suggest neutering a dog of such an advanced age and figured the vet would've suggested it if it would help.
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    About perianal adenoma

    I have no experience with perianal edema (which sounds like swelling and fluid build up, not tumors...) but I personally wouldn't neuter a 13 year old dog... He's only got a few years left, max- why put him through the pain of that procedure? The vet probably would've suggested it if it would help.
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    Dealing with Opossums and chickens

    That's good! I might be a little paranoid because I lost 3 Silkie hens and 7 chicks in one darn night to a mink! We didn't even know he/she was hanging around until I made the mistake of leaving the pop doors open one night... My husband found the nest under the back part of the coop, the mink...
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