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    Why is my hen's head turning sideways?

    I have a very nice buff Orpington hen whose feathers have never been full since I got her, they start growing back, then fall out again. She still lays some eggs, not often, but she's a nice girl. I put Pic-No-More and blu-cote on her and treated her for lice, but recently her head has been...
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    How do I introduce my ducks to their new home?

    No answers for ou, but I recently brought a wild duck home. Let me explain, we lost 2 ducks and my drake was really frustrated, and was taking it out on my chickens. He has only 1 girl left. So I found a duck with her nest of 14 eggs. I bropught them home and kept them isolated from the others...
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    Give that rooster a prize!

    I now have 2 cockerels,I'll call them roosters, because they are breeding age. They are both progeny of Lucky Roo, one seems to be from Wyandotte, he's quite bold, the other may be from Austrolorpe, he is huge. I cannot keep them, any takers?
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    Give that rooster a prize!

    We can arrange that. We have 7 of his offspring, 1 is crowing and trying to breed the hens already.
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    Give that rooster a prize!

    My babies get treats every day! I get scraps from a local restaurant. They especially enjoy spaghetti noodles, they think they have a worm, and will chase each other for it! But they are pasture raised, so they eat whatever they find, also layer crumbles are available at all times, and I...
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    Give that rooster a prize!

    Here is a pic of my Lucky Roo. He got his name because he was attacked by a dog last summer when he was only about 4 months old, and survived. My gold laced wyandotte was not so fortunate. Now it seems he has cheated death once again, and saved one of my girls in the process!
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    Give that rooster a prize!

    I've always thought he was a Dominique, but he doesn't have a rose comb, so does that mean he's a barred Rock?
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    Give that rooster a prize!

    So yesterday, as I was dealing with Christmas decorations, I heard a ruckus in the yard. I looked out the kitchen window, and saw several of my chickens running toward the house, panicked. I scanned the field for a predator, but couldn't see any. Then my "Lucky Roo" went flying across the...
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    crossbreed chicks

    I'm so excited to see what they will look like. Already seeing some "blond" on a couple of the chicks, one has black feet from the Americauna, another has a little black on its feet. Guess I will have to wait a while. I also have 2 chicks about 5 weeks old, one has definite barring already, all...
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    crossbreed chicks

    I recently (10 days ago) hatched 6 chicks from 6 different hens, all bred by a dominique rooster. All of them are black with various degrees of light-colored down and white spots on their heads. As the feathers are beginning to develop, they all appear to have some dominique coloring. Should I...
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    rescue duck

    I found a mallard (I think) duck behind a local restaurant with no tail feathers at all, apparently she had been attacked by something. We captured her and brought her home to rehabilitate. I moved my other ducks temporarily back into the chicken coop at night so that she could have the...
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    Could my 5 month old hen be broody already?

    My hens just barely started laying, and now she doesn't want to leave the nest, even though there is only a plastic egg in there.
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    Dominique Thread!

    My #1 rooster started crowing at about 3 months, give or take. I had noticed that the "hen" Dominique looked every bit as large, with huge feet the same size as his. I worried that she was the same size, and had a much larger comb than the other hens, but those 2 are the only dominiques i have...
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    Dominique Thread!

    Well, this morning,, I got another surprise. The Dominique hen with the large comb began crowing! Still learning, but definitely crowing. My husband said, what's wrong with your rooster, he sounds hoarse, then we realized it was the other one. Both are very good boys, but I think I need to...
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    Dominique Thread!

    I have 2. They were supposed to be pullets, but one day I heard a very garbled, muted crow, and realized it was coming from my rooster! The other one also has a very large comb, but I still think she's a hen. Both are beautiful, and are becoming quite tame.
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