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    Ate a bird, now she's sick.

    Can the .5% cattle powder be used? I don't see the goat version on tractor supply's site and the powder is nearly half the price of the horse paste
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    Ate a bird, now she's sick.

    About a month and a half ago I went outside and saw my hen Cherry with something in her mouth. It was a wild baby bird and she scarfed if down. Now for the last couple weeks I have noticed her comb turning pink and her butt is all poopified. She is eating fine and none of the other birds are...
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    HELP! Chick with torn skin

    Has anyone used silver sulfadiazine cream? My father has some from a severe burn. We didn't have any neosporin so I have applied the silver cream twice today. The chick and its family have range of our basement for now. The patch of missing skin seems pretty big, taking up a good portion of the...
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    HELP! Chick with torn skin

    I have a hen with 2, two week old chicks. They have been with the majority of the flock since they hatched, occasionally the chicks will be pecked at but just a few minutes ago a gent latched on to one chicks neck and pulled a pinky nail sucked piece of skin off.. I am seperatinh the hen and...
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    Broody or egg bound.. Help!

    Just wanted to let everyone know that a friend gave me some fertile eggs and Annabelle successfully hatched 3 chicks a week ago
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    Brooding hen and hot weather

    I've got a broody red sexlink that I just set 5 eggs under yesterday and I was just reading that over the next couple days we're going to have highs around 90.. The hen is in a small 4'x4' coop, nesting in a milk crate. Is the hot weather going to hurt her or the eggs?
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    Broody or egg bound.. Help!

    She's broody for sure. I got 5 fertile eggs from a friend so she can do her thing. With 6 other layers I didn't see a need to break her. Since she is a commercial breed what is the likelihood that she'll follow through and hatch the eggs?
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    Broody or egg bound.. Help!

    I have a RSL that is about 15 months old.. I was out of town for a few days and returned to find Annabelle walking around all fluffed up and clucking oddly and constantly. We have 7 hens that usually lay daily but my sister had been collecting less than 7 eggs. Annabelle still seems very bright...
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    Bearded araucana laying tan eggs?

    Thanks. I think I paid $6 for her at 12 weeks old. She's a character for sure. It's worth adding that those are old pictures. Her comb is a bit bigger and red now. I bought her at a swap and the lady said she'd lay Easter eggs. Just confused because she isn't
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    Bearded araucana laying tan eggs?

    She's not rumpless
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    Bearded araucana laying tan eggs?

    I have 7 pullets that are all around 7-8 months old. I have 4 red sex links, 2 welsummer/EE mixes and a bearded araucana. I know that the EE mixes lay blue and green eggs, l have seen them both lay. Most days I get 3 or 4 brown eggs and one eggs that is a sort of pinkish tan color. I usually...
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    Chicks in elevated box

    My friends had a chicken that was broody for quite sine time.. A number of months yet she never successfully hatched any chicks. She finally came off the nest and another hen went broody. Now chicks are hatching. I'm concerned though, because they are in a 3-4 foot high nest box without a ramp...
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    Polish cockerals. Roanoke, va

    I needed one boy but picked up 3 for $5. I need to find a home for 2 polish boys, one is a white crested black and the other is a buff polish. They are 12 weeks old. The black one has lost feathers on his head due to his previous owners girls picking on him. Just trying to find homes for them...
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    Feed dispencer/hopper plans?

    I should have been more specific. I wasn't talking about a feeder but rather a storage device. Something where I can hold a bowl under it and dispence food into it.
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Got our first REAL chicken eggs today.. Not guinea eggs this time.. I'm disappointed though I went and bought oyster shell. These two were laid off the roost. A third egg was laid after these but it was shell-less and even smaller. Are these two from different girls? Or would being soft...
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    Feed dispencer/hopper plans?

    We are about to start building our coop. While we are at it I was also thinking about making some kind of hopper or dispencer that we could mount on the wall in side. I've got a general idea in my mind but would anyone happen to have and plans for something like this?
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    Cockeral lost his girl. Now what?

    I may be able to find a similar age bird on craigslist.. Or would he be able to bond with guineas? I have 14 that are nearly a week and a half old.. I could give him two as friends
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    Cockeral lost his girl. Now what?

    I started out with 6 bantam chick from tractor supply. Later I accumulated 7 pullets. I ended up loosing 3 of the bantams to illness and a 4th because it squeezed out of the pen and a dog got it. We had one Phoenix cockeral and a mille fleur pullet. They were inceperable. Recently we had a storm...
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    17 & 20 week RSLs.. No eggs

    How long does it take for them to lay their first egg? She's still not roosting. She didn't go in the milk crate either. She's just laying down. Around her vent is damp but I don't see any discharge or anything. Earlier she tried to look at her rear end a few times, like she was trying to figure...
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    17 & 20 week RSLs.. No eggs

    I don't know about that? This particular bird isn't roosting now. She's in the coop but not roosting with the others now. I put a milk crate in there, it has cardboard in the bottom with shavings on top. She was looking at it like an alien. I stuck a egg in there too
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