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    A word of warning

    I had posted previously regarding my chickens sour crop symptoms I have a hyper thyroid kitty, and was talking to the vet about test results and asked her what she thought of giving monistate...and to my surprise she said..bring her in.. and she recommended opening her up... believe it or not...
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    should i be concerned

    I just noticed. one of my chickens chest is quite distended like baseball sized,,, I did have a chicken once have an engorged crop but this dosent seem like that because it seems soft not hard. didn't seem to bother her me touching her..and I will whatch her more closely but I hadn't noticed any...
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    chiicken greif

    Two days ago, we unfortunately lost a chicken... probably to an eagle or hawk cause there are no remains just a pile of feathers... But I knew one was tramatized, i think she saw...but non of my chickens will go out in there run... they are all just moping inside there coop...normally when i...
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    where oh where could my raven be

    my chickens have a good coop and run, and 95% of the time are there...but once in a bit they line up at the door and look up at me whith there longing eyes and i let them out... so i go to count them one missing...and i find a good handful of feathers...so i guess i have to face the fact she...
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    screwed up now what do i do????

    ok...i have gotten quite a few very cheap young turkeys...was planning on brinning one for christmas 24th dinner... i don't know what i was thinking (actually i do..running out of freezer space)... but one got in the fridge...is just to the thaw point...should..i start it in a brind...or should...
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    fertilizer????

    This was our second summer in our little slice of paradise.. I took on an acre.lot.. I love it but really don't know too much about gardening.. It is looking lovely and green...and some flowers.. but the kiwi i planted last year didn't flower..nor the grapes.. and plants having odd flowers but...
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    green house question?????????

    This year I had a green house built on the deck...nothing fancy is just thick polly, with the dream of one day, finding some cheaper lexan...I did...my run of things that are now mostly planted.... I am wondering...if it is safe to start planting more...I sort of was thinking no...but now am...
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    what happened..

    ok... so picked up my alisha chicken yesterday...and her eyes started closing...and she gave a sort of pecker open breath...I though good gosh...am gonna have to whatch her...(she is one of my favorites a real sweety)...but then the evidence dropped .....right on my shoe...ha ha ....
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    cocky roo

    I was really liking how everyone has been getting on so well in my little chicken family... I have 8 7 hens,,,and getting about 4 eggs a day...so all is good... or not... my little silver speckled hamburg..rooster .is really starting to stand up to us... maybe it started over christmas when my...
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    messy messy??????????????

    Ok...planning ducks in the spring... so far designated pen space..of course will be properly protected.. dog kenel... planed to go with a filtered inground pond...and have the pond...and one very cute flower fountain.. hope to find a relatively quietish good laying breed, as there space is right...
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    water ????

    hello...planning out my future spring duck quarters... I plan just 2 get 2 ducks then if one of my chickens goes brody...put a couple duck eggs under... the space I can have for them is aproximately 270 feet... I want too have built for them a ground pond with filter system... my question 4 all...
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    new egg ??

    Ok...I have a birchin...crossed with light sussex and black star.. yesterday she started eggs song rehursals...so loud...I went out thinking...maybe a preditor was around... she was trying to mess with my other laying regal girl...who really couldn't care less, what she was up to... but no...
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    silly silly question

    ok...just wondering... are there ducky diapers...?? is that at all feasable with a duck???
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    blue swede

    Hello...I am very much getting hooked on the thought of ducks in the spring and researching...so glad my hubby is once again suportive of my whims... one that would be easily available for purchase is a blue swede... Can't seem to find information...on this breeds noise level...the run will be...
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    duck duck chickens

    Hello...i am considering getting 2 cute runner ducks...9 months old.. they come from having been housed with chickens... I am sort of hoping to do the same...or is that unrealistic have no experience with ducks... what best advice for the initiation process... I found..with...
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    wood chips

    hello... I would like to convince my hubby...we need a chipper.. tons of tree;s on our property...and might prove a handy helper... Just wondering if anyone...has used..the chips for there chickens... I currently...am using pine shavings...though they are just minimally costly... overall in...
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    winter question

    Ok...coop ventalation question... my feathered...loved ones reside in a 4X5 coop...with one huge grated window...I have been sliding the wood up at !.2 mast...don't want my sweeties to be too cold..... they also have a roofed in outside...and a 10X8 run... My gardener/ handy helper...has been...
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    whats with the Yolk

    the last two days...I have notice..that the egg had a dot in the yolk...not red...but more whitish transluscent... does this mean that my rooster has been busy..??? not complaining tasted fine.. just wondering
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    mini frostbite

    I feel very bad...and shocked...but I think a couple of my girls have a slight case of frostbite... they usually don't go out in the rain..but one day we caught them in it ...and it is a few days later. and one of them have about 1/4 inch black on her tips... and 3 others have very slight...
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    silly question i know..

    Ok...don't mean to apear nieve..however... wondering how well chickens actually take care of there heigine... had my girls..about 6 months now...noticed..today,,two are looking a bit messy in the rear end... I know some brieds can get a cloged vent...and need to be soaked... how do I know when...
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