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    Lump on skin outside vagina, trying to lay—What is this? I thought she was egg bound! Is she dying? Is this a symptom of something worse?

    Calcium gets my vote I have had an egg bound Isa brown. I put her in a large warm kettle of water with Epsom salts.(Recommended ) Some ppl will use a plastic tote with a head hole cut in the lid. I would recommend the second way, because after 10 min, she jumped out of the soak (throwing Epsom...
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    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    She looks so velvety and snuggly. Love my ducklings!
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    Building a floating duck raft/platform..?

    I am way late to post on this, but I have the same idea using capped PVC tubes for pontoons. I have a duck house and Muscovies who don't feel they need to follow rules. I have fox coyote and mink for predators, and until the pond freezes, I am trying to keep the miscreants safe.
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    New Duck House, not too happy.

    Oh fellow flocksters, I am heartsick. I awoke this morning after a night of 17 degree temps and the ducks not wanting anything to do with the house I built. The pond is frozen over,but not enough to walk on. I see an awful sight. Two of my 5 Muscovies are standing on the pond where two coves...
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    How many toes does a standard cochin normally have?

    I am butchering a Cochins roo who was not playing well with the flock. On scalding and plucking the heavily feathered (outside edges only) feet, I found what appears to be an anomaly in toes as well. First toe that would correspond to a index finger and second toes are all good and as expected...
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    Show me pictures of your mixed breeds

    This is an EE x Isa Brown. I guess the back story on the Isa is a Delaware white. But her mom was quite a lot like herm
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    Sick duck

    Have a small bowl of herbal tea and extracts to give him by itself, so you know he is drinking some. Garlic is a natural antibiotic. I crush this and put it in their water. A clove (small piece, not a whole head) apple cider vinegar with the mother (grainy cloudy parts) like Bragg's ( one capful...
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    Comment by 'Stealth Squabs' in article 'Keeping Muscovy Ducks'

    I hatched 7 of 8:eggs in an incubator before I knew Muscovies were "hard" to hatch. Ignorance is bliss. One male of the 7 started picking at the other ducklings' incoming primaries on their wings while they had a blood supply. I came home from work to a real mess. I butchered the male after...
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    chicken cloaca covered, maggot infested! help!

    I would give her "magic water", a few small chips of garlic clove(antibiotic) a capful of apple cider vinegar with the mother in it for gut health and resilience, and a drizzle of molasses for energy in a quart of warm water, so the molasses dissolves. The blackened portion above the trimmed...
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    Hello from snowy OH

    I have 9 chickens, transitioning from pullet to hen. Today, in Feb., when they are supposed to be laying off of laying eggs, I got a personal best of 6 eggs. One looks like a newbie egg. Two are black australorps, 3 are black sex links, three are Isa browns and there is one barred...
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    literature on urban hen benefits?

    Hi Susan! I've been looking around the backyard chicken raising idea most of the summer. I think it's wonderful to be more self sufficient and to take a big part in where the food on the table comes from. Right now I would starve living out of my back yard, but the gardens will be expanded and I...
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