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    Egg Bound??

    Hi, One of my Japanese bantam hens is acting a little strange. She's been rather puffed up and quiet today. She seems like she has been trying to lay an egg all day so my firsts thought was that she is egg bound, but she has not been standing like a penguin. I brought her inside because it is...
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    Chick Ailing--Please Help!!!

    She is actually doing much better, she is sitting up and she is drinking.
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    Buggy Mint Plants

    We have a large patch of mint in my garden and it seems to be buggy. The leaves have holes in them and I have seen both caterpillars and small black bugs. Our chickens rarely go to the front of the house where the garden is, but the mint is the only buggy plant. I have read that cutting back...
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    Maggots ( unable to remove all from wound)????

    There is a paste called Swat that is antiseptic and will ward off insects. I have used it on horses before and it really helps. I have always ordered it online, but you might find it in a store like Tractor Supply or maybe in a tack shop like Dover. Good luck!
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    Sick Chick

    We have two chicks that are about a week old and maybe a day apart. One, the younger is much smaller than the other, but still normally very chirpy. This morning I found her on her side. The water dish was full of shavings so they didn't have water. I have been giving her sugar water with...
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    New chick not walking properly

    I think I had a similar situation with a baby Cochin. Her butt was too heavy for her and she had to drag it. She got stronger in a few days, but what I did to help her was to hold her butt up while she walked so she could get used to walking.
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    Chick Ailing--Please Help!!!

    We have two baby chicks in the same box. They are about a week old, maybe a day apart This morning the younger and smaller chick was found on her side in in the shavings. The water bowl was full of shavings so she may have not been able to get water. She is normally quite vigorous even...
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    Single Chick

    We had a bit of a surprise today in the form of a little fluffy baby under one of my hens, but only one. I'm a little worried about one single baby and being late June, there are no places with day old chicks. There are also very drastic temperature changes at my house, around 80 in the day and...
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    Comment by 'pek' in article 'Louisiana coop- Picture heavy'

    What a wonderful coop!
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    Canaries sick? or are we doing something wrong?

    Okay, thank you! It is fifty degrees outside, but more like seventy in the house. Although being near a window, the cage would be closer to outside temperatures.
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    What killed my chickens??

    I'm so sorry for your loss! I had a similar thing happen but over the course of a few nights. We thought it might be a fox or fisher-cat, but I am nearly positive it was a fisher-cat. Fisher-cats are awful; they don't eat much of the chicken, but they'll kill a whole flock. If you listen at...
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    Canaries sick? or are we doing something wrong?

    We recently had a few casualties concerning our canaries. We were given a pair of canaries from a friend of ours who breeds all kinds of birds and he had come to visit them several times and thought they were doing marvelously. My grandmother has been taking care of them mostly because she lives...
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    considering a new pet bird.

    I had a parrolet and, yes, she would snuggle with me and bite my parents. But even without the question of the species, I had a wonderful budgie for several years who was hand-fed. I would definitely look into getting a hand-fed bird because this bird we had always wanted to be with us. As son...
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    mew sound

    Is she eating? Does she look heathly? If her eyes are red, her bum pasty, or anything else unusual, she might be sick. Is she old enough to lay and if so has she continued to lay? Sometimes birds will act different with weather change. You may want to bring her inside and feed her scrambled eggs.
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    can two female budgies live together?

    Especailly when a the male is bigger, as I image he would be, she should not pick on him. If his deformity effected his size, she might; birds will sometimes pick on birds that are smaller than them. And the idea of introducing the birds slowly is an excellent idea. We took care of my friend's...
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    Canaries Nesting??

    Hello, everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful evening (or whatever time you happeen to be reading this). I have a pair of canaries that were a gift from a breeder friend of mine. I believe they were used to breed before. I was told that if I wished them to breed I should get a nesting box...
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    Looking to get three - six chicks?

    The birds your thinking of seem to be good choices for what your looking for. I have an amaraucana (almost the same as Araucanas) that I love, she's an amazing bird, she even survived a fox attack. You also might want to consider a Columbian Rock. Or, I'm just biased as a New Englander, New...
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    Sleepy Chicks

    I have four chicks that are 5-1 days old. The two youngest seem very groggy all the time. I think it is because of the heat, it is almost 90 degrees in the house with the heat light off, but I was wondering if it was something else? They have access to sugar water and to food. There isn't much...
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    Over-long Beak: Should I Trim?

    Okay, thank you so much!
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    Over-long Beak: Should I Trim?

    One of my bantams, who eats just layer pellets, has a very long beak that hooks over almost half an inch. She does not appear to have any more trouble than the other birds and is not under weight, but it makes me worried. Should I trim it or file it or just leave it be? I can post a picture...
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