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    Emergency! Goose unae to walk, shaking!!!

    I've attached a video. Young goose. Unable to walk, drunken behavior, shaking horribly. I have no idea what's wrong with her.
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    Ingrown feather? Feather cyst? Fluid on wing!

    Hello! I have an 8 week old African gosling. I have attached pictures of her wing. A couple of days ago I noticed her wing was starting to lay outward, I instantly thought it was angel wing. But upon inspection when we were putting them to bed we found her lower part of her wing is full of...
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    Duck vomiting white chunks!

    So in oregon we have gotten so much snow in the past two days. I locked a much ducks in their house. Tonight when I went out to check on them and feed we have a duck that is lame. I brought her in, have her a warm bath and she perked up. Now she is drinking but also every time she quacks or when...
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    Supplement flock raiser?

    I was just wondering is anyone has supplemented their animal feed. I feed all my flock, flock raiser and I was wondering if anyone added like sunflower seed or beet pulp or anything!
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    Scared of their new area.

    How long does it take your ducks to not be absolutely terrified of their new area?!? My husband and I double our duck area. We put it in our field, it's awesome! We put up aviary netting, hanging feeders and a nice hoop house! We put them in yesterday afternoon and they have confined...
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    Wet ducks....

    Does anyone else have this problem. I live in oregon and it rains pretty much everyday. It's also getting cold right now. And the are always wet. We have two dog houses and we have hung up tarps. Any suggestions? Are they ok wet? Here are some pictures of them after I let them out of the pen.
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    Worried about my 27 adult ducks.

    I hope I am simply being paranoid but do you ever just get the feeling that something isn't right? Well I am overwhelmed with that feeling. My flock consists of 27 khaki Campbell's. 9 males and 18 females. We started out with 7 and one of my momma ducks managed to hatch out 20 babies. Needless...
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    Hidden duck eggs hatched

    So evidently my female khaki Campbell had eggs I was in aware of deep in there nest, and I found an alert beautiful baby today. I was wondering and wanting advice from people should I bring that baby inside or allow the mom to take care of her?
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    Possible egg bound duck? Maybe something else?

    So Sunday I went out to do my normal routine and I notice one of my girl khakis so slow, she can not keep up with everyone else. She wasnt limping or anything but i pick her up and check her feet, we have had a couple get bumble foot, her feet are fine but she really didnt want held. And I also...
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    Antibiotics causing a plugged nose?

    This may completely stupid but I have my girl in the house. I took her to the vet on Saturday for bumblefoot we picked up some antibiotics, but now I am noticing she is panting and her nose is plugged it sounds.....I give her water to snort it out but that just seems to make it worse, any thoughts?
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    Sex of our geese.

    So as my geese get older I am thinking more and more that I have two boys and one girl. We thought we were purchasing 2 girls and 1 boy but they look completely different! These are he two that I think are male, they look pretty much alike. I just realized this is the only picture I...
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    Geese filling their pool with rocks?!

    So I was wondering if anyone is having the same problem I am. We have 3 african geese and they have full access to a kiddie pool all day and at night when I go to dump it, I actually have to scoop out rocks, and I mean a ton of rocks, just to dump it......anyone know why they do this? Or have a...
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    So getting another male seems to have backfired.....

    So our duck flock started out with 2 girls, than I added a boy, then I added 4 more girls and then we added one more boy to provide more awareness for our girls because they are care free and never pay attention. When it was just the one boy things went pretty well he would fight the chickens...
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    In need of insight on my geese killing my duck.

    I am still very emotionally raw this morning. When I got home last night I came home to a dead duck in the goose pool. They are in separate pins but she probably flew over. But up until 4 days ago they were in the same pin and no problems and now I came home to a duck with a broken neck dead in...
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    Different things they will eat?!

    I am trying to create a list of things that the below animals would eat, I am not saying that I would raise all of them right now but I am looking into raising things to reduce food cost! Any help would be great thanks! Buckeye and Rhode Island Red Chickens: Meal Worm Veggies Worms Snakes Mice...
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    What Homesteading book do you recommend?

    My boyfriend and I have purchased a few homesteading books and honestly none of they have wowed us....we are looking for one with everything. So what if you favorite go to homesteading book?!
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    Has anyone tackled feeding their flock with out purchasing food?

    So my goal over the next few months is to be able to feed all my animals with out having to purchase food for them. We currently have 8 ducks, 3 geese, 3 chickens and 4 dogs. I have done all the research for my dogs. I know exactly what they are going too need. So as long as my girls produce...
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    Duck shoes and bumblefoot.

    So I am pretty sure all of my 6 female ducks have bumblefoot. We live in a very rocky area which is probably why they are having this problem and we are going to be treating them at home. So has anyone put shoes on there ducks to live outside to protect their feet? Any particular ones you like?
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    Anyone burn a counter top?

    So cooking last night the pan was really hot and ended up burning me and I placed it on the counter top not even thinking about it and it burned the crap out of it......anyone have this happen and repaired it? Any tips?
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    Buckeye Chicken?!?

    So my boyfriend and I decided that we wanted buckeye chickens and once we pick a breed that is all we want because we know we are going to want to hatch babies eventually. Well what we thought we had were 2 girl buckeye chickens and a rooster. BUT after a couple weeks of our girl chicken being...
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