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    Nearly drowned keet hellp!!!!!!!

    Thank you for the kind reply! Unfortunately she died that night. I do appreciate you taking the time to reply though!! Bock. baaaaaawk.
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    Nearly drowned keet hellp!!!!!!!

    QUESTION: Based on the following, would you start antibiotics as a preventative to pneumonia? PLEASE ADD ANY OTHER TIPS OR HACKS YOU SUGGEST. SITUATION: 3 day old keet found drowning in brooder water dish because someone didn't put back in the rocks after filling the water. It looked dead...
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    What gender or breed is this friendly hobo?

    True for when you choose to bring in a bird. Kinda pointless when it's been ranging and nesting with your birds for a few days before you see it🤣
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    What gender or breed is this friendly hobo?

    So this chicken just showed up in our flock one day. Somebody either dumped it with ours or it ran away or got lost. No one around here has chickens. It's calm, doesn't mount our hens, has 1 inch straight spurs (not curved like our roos). Smaller than an orpington bigger than a leghorn. We free...
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    Comment by 'Tom Kathleen' in article 'Top 10 Favorite Backyard Chicken Breeds'

    we free range and have 13 different breeds and have found rhode island reds good for this. they seem to not have laying problems if they eat excess of protein (gobbling a lot of grasshoppers) and they seem to have a sense of when to hang out in the barnyard and when to go wandering. RIR were...
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    Anyone have bunch of Prairie Blues noticed sudden death?

    Thank you for the reassurance! When you've had so many chickens and you think you've "seen it all" and then something happens, it's puzzling and it really helped me that you took the time to reply! Years ago when I first got chickens I used to fret and over-react to everything and now I can...
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    Anyone have bunch of Prairie Blues noticed sudden death?

    We have 150 laying hens of about 13 different breeds. We had 15 Praire Blues that are 18 months (a blue layer mixed with a leghorn purchased from one of those national hatcheries -- so probably terrible genetics). We had never had this "breed" before and initially liked them. They were an easy...
  8. Tom Kathleen

    Unwell Chick

    I cut a tiny bit of vetwrap to use for splay leg. You can loop it around each leg, then pinch it in the middle because it's self sticking. If you need to tighten it, you can just pull it together and pinch. It's much easier than a band and I've found chicks are less likely to get it off...
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    Noticed hens breathing with open mouths, recently added ....

    absolutely! great point! i didn't even think about the geo location -- i was going on because she said night, i assumed it was in the cooler time of the day. all chickens pant during the heat of the day, but will usually do the "sweaty armpit" move with their wings too and she didn't mention...
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    A hawk attacked my duck

    also i forgot to say, when we transported our goose (they are NOT TAME AT ALL -- they are our guard geese and they do NOT like being handled) we got a box that was just a little bit bigger than her, put her in it and covered her whole body with a towel. it was dark in the box for her and the...
  11. Tom Kathleen

    Bumblefoot back and worse than ever!

    I use a very sharp tweezers (like razorman tweezers -- they're almost like little scalpels) to pull the whole circle off. It's a TWO person thing. One person holds the chicken upright and the other has to work below (I never tilt a chicken to work on them -- unless it's a crop massage with a...
  12. Tom Kathleen

    A hawk attacked my duck

    I love vetrycin pink eye gel. it's basically the exact same as regular vetrycin, but if you get it near eyes or anything, it's safe. if it were me, i'd probably spray some around bill area to try to disinfect and jump start healing -- just don't shoot it directly into nostrils -- you don't...
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    Noticed hens breathing with open mouths, recently added ....

    I would treat for gapeworm. Safeguard or fenbenzadole is a safe broad spectrum wormer. If you search on BYC you will find lots of dosage info. Remember when worming ANY animal (pet, livestock, etc.) with nearly any wormer, that with 99.9% of wormers, it's a two dose thing. You give the...
  14. Tom Kathleen

    what is wrong with my chicks eye?

    There are many possibilities, and I can't see the photo very well, but since this is in emergencies I'll try to reach out. My thoughts were: 1)Could it be an eye worm? Google chicken eye worm or i'm sure there's threads on here. It's hard to see. If it is, some folks use VetRx in the eye...
  15. Tom Kathleen

    Guinea with broken knee

    I'm pretty sure its a slipped tendon -- for which the prognosis isn't good. It gets around REALLY good, just walks weird and flops and bobs. Doesn't seem to be in any pain. My son doesn't want to put it down, which I get (I don't want to either). We have one guinea that injured its foot and...
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