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    Help! Chicken w/gurgling cough&new ducklings and eviction!

    if you can, I would recommend selling all the ducklings ASAP and getting rid of the eggs the broody hen is sitting on. If you can’t isolate any of the sick animals, then you will have to plan for them all becoming sick, and without a vet or tests you don’t know with what. Try and keep them...
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    Are Cheetos organic?

    Such a philosophical question! I too was intrigued in general about what makes any meat or dairy product organic (like does organic steak mean the cow only ate Organic food?) and that is not the case. The USDA organic requirements for meat and dairy aren’t that stringent, so it is a really good...
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    Goose is dizzy, can't walk, falls over?

    I don’t have an answer for you, but I had a Chinese gander who had this exact thing a couple of years ago. I believe it was a virus, or maybe an infection, do they have access to fresh water? Mine had it when we only had a small pond for them that would get dirty quickly, he declined quickly, I...
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    Weird (possibly neurological?) chicken illness

    I’ve had a strange illness that about 4 or 5 of my chickens have suffered from over the last two years. they have been varying ages, and no particular breeds. (they have been a mix of Orpingtons, austrolorpes, barreds and RIRs). Symptoms lethargy uncoordinated leg movements eye rolling...
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    Predator took all 5 hens last night! I feel horrible!

    I feel so sorry for you! As everyone else said, please don’t dwell on it. We’ve all made mistakes, and sometimes we get away with it and sometimes we don’t. I’ve had a gang of raccoons try to take off with about 7 chickens at once, they tend to be very good a climbing, quiet and may leave...
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    Review by 'SarahSmalls' in article 'Pecking! Not all pecks are equal.'

    I always like reading about other people’s experiences with their own chickens, it’s also a good way to gauge if your chickens are “normal”. Thanks for the article!
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    Breeding Sussex Chickens (Colour Genetics)

    I know this post is a couple of years old now, but did you ever do the lavendar/Sussex cross? What did they come out like???
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    Breeding Sussex Chickens (Colour Genetics)

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    Gorgeous white Chinese Ganders for Sale

    Hmm, I noticed there were a few private shipping companies that could do it, but again, pretty pricey! That is a wonderful idea about the NC thread, do you know if it's OK to post a link in there to this thread? I don't want to break the rules!!!
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    Gorgeous white Chinese Ganders for Sale

    We could ship to Canada! I'm willing to try anything to find them a good home! If you wanted to pay for shipping I would give them to you "for free". do you know the best way to do it? I also managed to get a picture of Bluey, not quite as regal as he doesn't stand still, but he's a bigger boy...
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    Gorgeous white Chinese Ganders for Sale

    I'm looking to sell my two pure white Chinese Ganders (Derek and Bluey). Derek is a year and a half and Bluey is 6 months old. Bluey is Dereks son (so we know he is able to reproduce, he has fathered 3 goslings already). They get along with all other poultry (turkeys, ducks, chickens (including...
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    New chicks! One acting odd...

    Just to make sure nothing is stuck in her crop, hold her upside down. If she drank water and that falls out it could indicate a blockage!
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    Unwell Gander

    Thank you for replying! They do have a pond, So I think if respiratory it would be lower rather than upper, hopefully not though. When he wasn’t feeling well (and still rummaging around his chest area a bit) I got a good look under his feathers and couldn’t see any notes etc, the skin looked...
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    Unwell Gander

    I have a 9 month old gander that has recently been very ill. He stopped eating his food and looked extremely lethargic. I hand fed him Gatorade and dried worms (his favourite treat), and used wazine 17 dewormer on him, his last goose friend and all of our chickens. He seems to be getting better...
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