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    I need help I think my hen is egg bound!

    Well she's gone She died while in my hands while I was soaking her. So I oiled my finger and probed inside her the egg was right at the vent but it was outside her laying tract so I think she laid internally. thanks for the help anyways guys.
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    I need help I think my hen is egg bound!

    So today when I went to go check on my hens I noticed my Brown leghorn was acting a little strange. I thought it may have been because she was getting ready to lay for the day, so I fed watered and gathered the eggs already in the boxes and went about my day. Well I just went to let them out for...
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    Help my 9 week old austrolorp is crop bound I think!

    I came home from work today to find one of my eight 9 week old chicks to have a distended and squishy crop I think it might be crop bound so I turned her upside down and drained some of the crop contents and some small feathers and food came out, her crop is still pretty full but doesn't look...
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    Help with Introduction.

    I've been allowing the banties to run around the old coops run while the standard hens are inside for about a week now, but My black sex-link is the lowest in the pecking order of the standard hens and she just goes straight for the banties anytime I let them run around the yard together.
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    Help with Introduction.

    So just last year I took in 3 banties that were Easter chicks and the parents didn't want them after they got bigger so I took them. But I also have 4 standard sized hen that are between the ages of 3-4, the standard sized hens have never been around banties but I want to keep them together, I...
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    Pecking problem

    vicks as in vicks vapor rub? And do you separate them?
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    Pecking problem

    So I've had my 4 hens for 3 years now, and all of a sudden my black sex-link is getting pecked on, and today I came out to feed and water and her tail is bleeding, could it have to do with the fact that my hens a molting? What can I do to keep them form picking on her. And should I separate her...
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    My Baby hatched!

    Thank you kyrose, he/she is alone he/she was from a friend's hen she was killed by a coon so I told her I'd hatch it out so she could have it. And he/she has a stuffed chick in there for company.
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    My Baby hatched!

    Do I need to remove the water from the bottom of the incubator or can it stay in there? Will he dry out fine with the water still in there? and How long should I leave him in there? Sorry for the questions this is my first hatch I'm kinda stressed/excited at the same time.
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    Molting question

    I don't have a rooster and no I haven't seen any blood, She is 1 year and 7 months old this is her first molt since being a little baby.
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    Nightcrawler Hunting and Vermiculture question

    Yes, It's not to hard to keep worms. If you have a basement like I do this is a way to keep them make a 3 ft wide by 3 Ft long by10 in. deep square box out of wood. Then get a plastic liner I used some old pond lining we had. Get some dirt from outside to fill the box, go to a place with no...
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    Molting question

    I thought my oldest hen Luna was molting but now I'm not to sure, because she has lost all the feathers on her back. Is this normal or are the others hens picking on her?
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    Cleaning the fish water

    Here at my house I do a 25% water change once a week, all you do is use a gravel vac to remove 25% of the water in the tank, fill up a bucket (we use a 5 gal bucket just for fish water changes) follow directions on bottle and add de-chlorinator, this stuff called black water extract (lowers Ph...
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    Turtle help

    Like others have stated try some live foods like crickets (With back legs removed), meal worms, earth worms, live fish like guppies, even some chicken liver (small enough pieces for him to eat). Also do you have a lamp with UVB and UVA rays ( this helps them absorb nutrients), may also be that...
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    Anybody ever own an African Clawed frog?

    Just an interesting fact about these guys they use them to develop pregnancy tests in labs.
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    Gold fishes-What did I do wrong?

    Not to advertise but if you need fish help there is a form called Badmans just Google it I use it all the time we have some people on there that have 40 yrs experience with fish keeping, and fish breeding, and a marine biologist. Then thing with Gold fish is they make a lot of ammonia which is...
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    Anybody ever own an African Clawed frog?

    They will get to 4 inches long, you can keep 1 of them in a 10 tank, water temps need to be between 71.6-77 F, they will live up to 15 years, water in tank should be no deeper then 12 inches if it's any deeper they will not be able to get to the top to breath, do not use small gravel in the tank...
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    Incubating Bearded Dragon Eggs- Using Little Giant

    That sexing by temperature thing doesnt work with all reptiles, just some, such as leopard geckos. I know that but that is what I've been told and read in my reptile books so just going on info read and given to me.
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