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    Hen 911 Something caught in her mouth

    Hi. We just found one of our hens in the shed. She swallowed part of a long piece of twine and now it is caught. We tried pulling on it but it seems caught. What do we do?!
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    Just kidded need help! Update with Pics

    I'm searching online places but I knew this would be the best source of info. Back story... Our 1+ yro pygmy Barbara just kidded 2 babies, like just now. DH and I have been talking the past few weeks because she was looking rounder and rounder. She lives with her spouse George and around...
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    Is this from the Roo? Missing feathers.

    I've been looking all over, besides BYC (because of the board issues tonight). A few hens in the coop are missing their feathers on the back end above the tail. Our coop holds up to 24 birds, but we only have 12 in there. We checked the birds for mites, lice, etc and found none. We also...
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    Neighbors dogs and cats

    I am sorry I am not sure where to post this it is a law question about predators... My neighbor has several dogs that get away from them and come to my house to chase the chickens and harrass the goats, cow, and MY dogs. They also have an ever increasing population of cats that come at night...
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    Weaning baby goat

    We got a baby goat that had lost it's mama. She is about 7wks. I can get her to take a bottle, it takes a little encouragement but it can be done, but she will also drink the same milk from a small bowl. Is it important that she gets the milk from a bottle or is it all the same no matter how...
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    Chickens will not go in the house...

    Hi guys. I have given them long enough it's time I asked this question. I have some free range chickens ( about 25), they were in coops until summer got here and they came of age. Most of them are at least of laying age, with 4 or 5 a little younger. It is a mix of breeds and sexes. We have...
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    Chicken calculator dummy...

    I really did try the chicken calculator but I just didn't get it. We have two Old English Bantam hens one of them has started laying. If the eggs are fertile there are two possibilities on who the Roo is... Possibility #1 Clyde our resident top dog bantam who has been hanging with these...
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    Do Roos know their babies?

    I was just wondering if a rooster knows its babies? We had two hens who hatched chicks from the same rooster, we also incubated and hatched chicks from this rooster, it seems when out and about he prefers "his" chicks over others. At this point we have lost both of those hens, and the chicks...
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    broken breast bone by dog Roo didn't make it.

    One of our Cochin Roos got inside the dogs pen. Innitially I thought the dog had killed the chicken, but when I got him out he was breathing. DH came home and took the Roo to his work. He works at an exotic animal ranch, and there were many people there who could help, and the meds and...
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    Coolest thing ever just happened!!

    Alrighty...so ever since we started letting our chickens free range I have been spending more time outside watching them, yes even in this heat. It has been soooo entertaining. I was worried about them getting in the goat pen, and they did, AND they goats love them. I didn't even worry about...
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    Help with my goats.....pretty please.

    We have two pygmy goats George and Barbara. We got George first and then brought Barbara home for him. The lady we purchased her from said she had shared a pen with other goats male and female so it was possible for her to already be pregnant. We got her in June, and were told if we didn't...
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    Cochin Roos....right?

    We got some bantams and RIR's and the lady threw in a few others for free. Two of them we are told are Cochins, looking at pics I believe they are. Most of our chickens free range, with the exception of a few bantam hens and our RIR hens, which are for laying. So in the pics are the two that...
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    Help!! Need help with new mom and chicks

    This is a long story so I am just asking the question... I have 7 bantam hatchlings who are from the same clutch except 2 were incubated and hatched 1 week before the other 5. I was thinking of adding the 2 to the 5 who are with mama. Will she accept them? Or kill them? Any ideas?
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    Clean the yolk sack?

    One of my chicks hatched with the yolk sack attached. Should I clean the area? And if so with what?
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    Candeled egg Does this look right?

    This is my bantam egg on it's 12th day of incubation. I was checking some others and thought I'd look at him\her for...well curiosity's sake. I have 3 other bantams and have never seen so much detail. So obviously one of the groups are not doing well. This one was set on the 20th, the other...
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    Why did this happen?

    Today was hatch day for my RR's. I was concerned at lockdown because I couldn't see any movement. Today I spoke with a man at the farm store and purchased a new digital thermo with humidity display. There was a little temp diff in my new and old gauges. The new one was reading under 100...
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    Movement in the egg?

    Should I see movement in the egg? We are on day 18 fixing to start lockdown and I can see a dark shadow "move" when I move the egg, but it is not moving on its own. The eggs themselves are dark in color and are a mixed RR. Just not sure what is going on in there. I can see the air sac...
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    Emergency egg/hen questionf

    First off i want to thank you for readinh this. Alright I have a broody hen/egg question(s).  In October our middle aged hen Princess Lay-A started laying. At first it was sporadic then it was every day then it tapered off to about one a week. We want to increase our flock so we left her alone...
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