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    Is my Pekin Bantam Rooster sick or dying of old age ?

    Update, I found him dead this morning 😥 all his women were standing around him, so sad 🩷 RIP El Macho, he was a good rooster for 5 1/2 years and looked after his flock so well. For future reference, I'm just wondering how he could have gone downhill so fast with a blocked crop ? Maybe he had...
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    Is my Pekin Bantam Rooster sick or dying of old age ?

    Update....I tried to "empty him" this evening - there's a lot in there and it got squishier as I massaged but not a drop came out. (I've done this many times over the years so I know the technique). Although his comb stayed red he went sort of floppy and I wondered whether he had aspirated...
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    Is my Pekin Bantam Rooster sick or dying of old age ?

    My Pekin Bantam Rooster (El Macho !!) is 5 1/2 now. This is quite old but not THAT old as two of his siblings are still alive. Anyway the last 2 days I've noticed he's gone rapidly downhill, quite lethargic, not roosting up but crouched on the floor at night, not moving around in the day or...
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    How to divide up this year's chicks ?

    @Mrs. K Thank you. If I put the pullets in with a rooster before they are laying, will he mate them ? hurt them ? Yes got to do something about the roosters but still waiting to see which looks the best for next generation breeding !
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    How to divide up this year's chicks ?

    I've got 17 pullets and cockerels all hatched this spring, all in the same nursery pen: 6 Pekin Bantams (3 Male & 3 Female) around 22 weeks - females don't lay until 24-28 weeks 5 Hamburgs (2 Male & 3 Female) around 22 weeks - females might be about to lay 6 Old English Game Fowl (guessing 3...
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    Female Guinea laying but not sitting

    @R2elk @SamLockwood Thank you for your helpful comments. If she does go broody, should I leave the male in the run with her or put him back with the other guineas ?
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    Female Guinea laying but not sitting

    @R2elk It's about 4m wide, 2.5 m high and 8m long - concrete base with litter and some mud. Has a little shed at one end where they can roost up, the eggs are littered on the floor under the roosting area.....
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    Female Guinea laying but not sitting

    I've put together a guinea fowl pair in their own run. Male is about 3, female is 14 months and has started laying for the first time at the beginning of June. I've put a nesting box at ground level in a corner of the indoor part of the run. The run has a concrete floor but about 4 inches of...
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    What to do with solo chick

    OK, before I give up could I try with a different bantam female ? How long before they settle down if they are going to ? Or with 2 different bantam females would that be better or worse ? If that doesn't work I'll try a pen next to the others. Thank you.
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    What to do with solo chick

    @Buckeye Amy OK I put the lone chick in with the most docile female Pekin bantam into a new crate and for the next 20 minutes she bullied the chick until it was cowering in the corner, so I took out the bantam. Not sure what to do now - would it have settled down eventually ? How long should I...
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    What to do with solo chick

    @Buckeye Amy thank you I will give that a try.
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    What to do with solo chick

    I have a healthy Old English Gamefowl (fighting cock) chick that is 5 weeks old and the sole survivor of a bad hatch where the humidity was too low and the rest didn't hatch properly. It is really lonely especially since its only other hatching mate died of wry neck/splay legs at 4 weeks. I'm...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    Update: This rooster has now fully recovered but he really doesn't get on with his roomate who injured him - they were lunging at each other through netting. So I've put him in a run with a hen that I don't want to breed for company and I've let the other rooster stay with the hens for...
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    Questions about hatching some dirty and maybe cold eggs ?

    Update: In the end we put about 15 eggs under the hen but she wasn't properly broody and by the time we realised she was leaving them cold it was too late to bring them to an incubator. But the good news is they are still laying and this time I've made sure they are in clean runs with clean...
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    Hamburgh rooster injured by fighting

    @Eggcessive thank you for this. This morning the comb has dried out but it's really shrunken and very dark red (not fleshy and pale red). Can I put a human antibiotic cream ? Or I have a chlortetracycline Hcl 2.45% spray that my vet gave me for general animal wounds..... I have another pen...
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