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  1. HSerChickLady

    they refuse to eat

    I've been fighting both my chicken flocks for several weeks now in their refusal to eat their feed. I thought maybe there was something wrong with the bag i had at first, but now we've tried 3 different brands and they refuse them all. One coop will suffer through and eat about 1/3-1/2 of...
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    goat with a rough coat

    We are getting our first goat's and being new to goat's i have a question about one of them. She's a nice Oberhasli doe, giving lots of milk, but her coat is a bit rough compared to the other 2 we are taking as well. Our friends we're getting her from said she was fine till she ate a bunch of...
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    garden weeds

    I have been feeding my hens the weeds from our garden-they're unsprayed. They like them since it gives them something to pick through as well as a snack. Is there any harm in doing this long term though? My girls don't get to free range due to predators so this makes a free entertainment...
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    egg yolk peritonitis questions

    We've lost a few hens over the past few months and our local vet couldn't find anything so she finally had me send one of them to Cornell to have a full exam done. Everything that they tested for was clean which is great-that means my girls are healthy. But they did find that particular bird...
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    by what age to feathers tell sex?

    I'm still waiting to see what my straight run TSC ducklings will be and i can't find an age in my books. How old should they be before i'm sure of what they are? I'm starting to get excited that i might have actually gotten 5 out of 6 females which would just be the greatest luck ever for me...
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    can possums give my flock germs

    I have lost another hen today. The first two were a few months ago and the vet couldn't find any cause of death but they did have mites which we've been treating for since. This hen displayed the same symptoms as the first two and she had been treated for mites. But we have a major problem...
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    what to use for a base in pens?

    We have to keep our ducks penned for several reasons. We originally started with what we thought was a reasonable dry spot in the yard. The ducks promptly turned that into 4 inches deep mud that refused to dry out. So we scooped out the mud and filled it in with small rounded gravel. No more...
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    mixed flock question

    Can there be problems from putting larger drakes in with smaller females? We may be combining two flocks and would have this predicament. If there are potential problems what might we be looking at? Also what about having drakes of different sizes together? We'd be mixing mallard, rouen, and...
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    need tips for adding to our flock

    Our new ducklings are almost 6 weeks old and need to go outside asap if the weather will cooperate. We want to move them in with our flock of 2 yr old adults at some point this summer. They will be getting temporary quarters very soon (dog kennel and a small house that hubby will make). I...
  10. HSerChickLady

    Flock Raiser feed

    I've never used this before but I'm wondering how others have made out with it for their ducklings? I never used it with my older ducks but we're trying to decide what food to move our new ducklings to when their bag of DuMor chick starter runs out. I want something better quality than DuMor...
  11. HSerChickLady

    sickly duckling: UPDATE

    I have one Crested duckling that I brought home that is still not doing well. I brought them home from TSC this past Wednesday. Right from the start this duckling seemed to be having trouble. I changed my brooder set-up to make things warmer and that seemed to help. At least then it was up...
  12. HSerChickLady

    homemade scratch/snack mix

    I'm not thrilled with the nutritional content of scratch grain and buying healthy seed and veggie based mixes is very expensive. They get bored without something to pick at since I can't free range them and its nice to lure them in early when I have to be gone before their usual bedtime. Does...
  13. HSerChickLady

    duckling not acting right

    I brought home 6 ducklings last night from TSC and 2 were having some trouble but seam to be perking up this afternoon now that I've gotten the temp right (I was using a Brinsea brooder but it wasn't keeping them warm enough). But I've got one who has started acting strange in a different way...
  14. HSerChickLady

    major mite infestation-need help

    Sadly we have suddenly lost two of our laying hens. I just dropped the second one off at the vet for a postmortem examination. The one thing we do know is that upon their deaths both birds were seriously infested with some sort of mite/other pest. The vet wants me to dust the rest of that...
  15. HSerChickLady

    need nest box ideas

    I have a coop full of large hens who are in need of a set of nest boxes and then this weekend my nest boxes in my other coop broke and is not reparable. I am on a really tight budget and not able to build anything right now either. So i need some way to make next boxes for my girls that is...
  16. HSerChickLady

    will this work for housing?

    I absolutely have to seperate one of my flocks. The olders have started beating the youngers all of a sudden and they must get seperated before they kill someone. I have no money or time right now to build another coop and run for the snotty hens. My DH would rather eat them-we really don't...
  17. HSerChickLady

    how to remove blood marks?

    My all white Americauna came out of the coop with blood on her this morning. I crated her because they were picking at her and i had to leave. It's not her blood as far as i can tell-couldn't find any injuries (also can't find who it did come from). How can i get the marks off her? I was...
  18. HSerChickLady

    Flock still not getting along

    I originally had 8 hens from last year (2011) and i added in 10 more several months ago. They're mostly tollerating each other but we still have some occasional skirmishes and the older hens rarely let the youngers out into the run. They've been together all summer so we thought they'd have...
  19. HSerChickLady

    poultry first aid kit

    Since i'm now being caught without anything to treat wounds i'm curious what i should keep on hand for the future in a poultry first aid kit for both my chickens and my ducks?
  20. HSerChickLady

    injured hen

    I found one of my hens this morning had apparently gotten beat up on while i was away yesterday and since it was well after dark before i got home i couldn't see the injury last night when i shut them in. It's on the back of her neck. Looks like someone plucked the feathers out of her and...
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