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    Possibly sick Chicken, several questions

    One of my Buff Orps (10 months old) seemed fine this morning but this evening my husband notices she is sluggish and won't eat. He's been feeding them bread in the afternoon when he gets home from work and today she won't any and was hiding under a bush. I went out and had a look, not that I'm...
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    Re-introducing previously injured chicken

    Ok, so we have a girl who was attacked by ???? on the 4th and had a nasty wound on her neck. I followed my general instincts about such injuries and the advice given from other chicken lovers and she's healed faster than I ever could have imagined. She's not perfect but the wound is totally...
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    Names for Chickens!

    I JUST finished naming all of my girls. It's taken a while for the australorps to get names b/c it was difficult to tell them apart. So anyway we have Jeepers, and Peppers the buff orps. Then Lacey who's supposed to be a sliver laced wyndotte but ???? Then the Lorps are Peckers, Rivers, and...
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    Another Wound Care/Injured Chicken Question

    So basically it's going to be a good long while before she can rejoin the flock. Bummer. Hopefully she'll heal as quickly as chickenly possible then so she can start being reintroduced. I'm sure she's lonely. Wish being lonely made her more friendly but oh well. lol. Injured as she is she is...
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    Another Wound Care/Injured Chicken Question

    Ah ok, well good. I'll just let it be then aside from the cleaning. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something in the wound care department. I have never dealt with a wound quite like hers before that wasn't stitched or treated in some way surgically. I think I'll just make my husband...
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    Snakes - Waaaaaay Too Many Snakes

    Quote: I would have to agree as a new chicken keeper with the advice to prevent rather than kill if you can. I haven't dealt with many issues with chickens yet so maybe over time my opinion will change? We just found an oak snake in our coop two days ago and I was logging onto this part of the...
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    Another Wound Care/Injured Chicken Question

    My 7 mo old girl Lacey was attacked by ??? on the 4th leaving a wound on her neck where the skin all the way down to muscle was basically peeled up from almost the base of her neck to almost the base of her skull. I flushed with water and have been trying to continue to do so daily and applying...
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    Huge wound on neck, what now?

    She seems to be feeling even better tonight. She is back to her 'ol don't touch me self. I haven't been able to clean her neck this evening b/c I'm having a devil of a time getting her out of the dog crate. She hogged out on a scrambled egg and then she went ahead and laid and egg so I suppose...
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    Huge wound on neck, what now?

    Thanks guys. I haven't been able to find a vet that won't charge me an arm and a leg and my first born for treatment here which is annoying I found a vet on the list at the top of the page but they are two hours away I just can't do that with on my own with a toddler in tow. I guess I'll just...
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    Huge wound on neck, what now?

    So it's about 2am here and I had to get up and let the dog out to potty. Standing on the back porch I notice that one of the girls is on top of her coop rather than IN her coop. My husband is the one who took care of the birds this evening and he fed, watered, and locked them in for the night...
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    more tsc ducklings - no, I didn't bring any home

    I'm jealous. Our TSC only has what I assume are pekins. We even went to another TCS an hour away and they had the same. I guess ours aren't getting any different ducks. Of course we aren't looking for ducklings we're looking for an adult (which might get really easy to find on craigslist in the...
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    Week old mallards had their 1st swim today....video

    Ah that's really adorable
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    What is a better idea?

    Adult or Duckling for our lone duck? I have no idea how old exactly she is but I guess she is about a year since I'm pretty sure she was an Easter duckling, we've had her about a month now and we love her. We want to do right by her and get her a friend. I'm having a harder time getting ahold of...
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    What age can you start to confirm sex?

    Quote: Yes I do. I will get more updated photos of them when the baby goes down for his nap.... if he goes down for a nap My computer croaked with all my photos on it so I haven't been able to get on here and post them. Anyway, I notice that his/her comb has not gotten any redder or any...
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    TSC dangers (ducklings)

    wow what a great find.... how did you resist taking home the whole lot? Hehe. My husband has already banned me from TSC. He says he will go on his own to buy chick and dog food b/c he doesn't want to hear it when I see something adorable lol.
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