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    Two muscovy groups from same hatch growing differently?

    I bred my Muscovies, and when the ducklings were still small I sold some. For some reason, my group grew faster and have larger caruncles, but feathered out way slower. I have some males and females, as did they. Swapped one of my girls for one of her boys, and it's fully feathered while mine...
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    Broody ducks; worried about hatch?

    I've got two Muscovies sitting on a shared nest, due to hatch over the next week. I'm worried about the eggs though, as they look very different than the ones I kept back for the incubator. I am aware that the air cell needs to be very large at this stage, the ones in the incubator do look a...
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    Let's play "guess that breed!"

    I bought a "silkie" chick, to keep the silkie I hatched out myself company, as it hatched alone. Now, any chick would have done, so I'm not hung up on the breed, just curious. It isn't a silkie, that I do know. Here's the specs: Single comb. Bantam. Black chick down, black wing feathers coming...
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    Gonna lose his feet...

    My Bantam Wyandotte rooster is a suicidal idiot, and as such he looks like he is going to lose both of his entire feet to frostbite. This is the second time he's nearly killed himself, the first time he sat outside in a freezing rain storm huddled in a corner, while both his girls sat in the...
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    Muscovy has swollen, red eye!

    I am just out of the woods with Bumblefoot, and then this happens! One of my girls has a red eye, and the flesh around it is red and inflamed. Her bill is slightly open, she does not look happy. Should I separate her from my other duck? She looked fine last night. Their water dish is deep enough...
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    Getting first Muscovies soon... With Bumblefoot.

    I'm getting some white Muscovies soon, after much thinking and deliberation over my slug issue and love of natural gardening. They do have some remaining Bumblefoot, but I'm pretty confident I can handle it. Their current owner is taking good care of the problem as well. Still, this is two...
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    Hatching chilled eggs

    I'm starting a hatch soon, with eggs from my Bantams. The trouble is, they lay at seemingly random times, and I can't always get the eggs right away. It gets very cold out, sometimes. Obviously I can't hatch an egg that is frozen, but to what degree of cold should they still be viable? Some of...
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    Overhanging gourd vines?

    I came across the interesting information that gourd leaves, because they are so strong smelling and bad tasting, are rarely eaten by animals such as domestic rabbits, among other creatures, and thought it might be a good plant to grow up the wire of a chicken run. I can't seem to find specific...
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    Winter weather is all over the place; advice?

    Dealing with some unfortunate weather swings; - 17 lows , +6 highs, with barely a day in between sometimes. And it's is so damp! Every time the temp approaches 0 or above the air gets so wet you can see it, then it plummets again overnight for 24 hours of below -15. Frostbite is becoming a risk...
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    New birds have black "scab-ish" specks on comb... Mites?

    My new trio of white wyàndotte bantams have some little black pieces, that look very much like blood spots on their combs. I have no other birds presently, and if it is mites I want this felt with before my spring chicks get here. One question I do have, if I treat with ivarmectin, can I still...
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    Don't know what to do... Chicks and broody

    My Maran did a great job hatching her chicks, with some complications near the end thanks to another hen, but now that they're chicks I'm seriously concerned. She's scratching in the shavings and totally kicking them, rolling them and burying them in shavings, and pecking at them when they...
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    My wyandotte is a lazy egg thief

    So my Maran has been incubating eggs perfectly, watching them, defending them, just doing a stellar job for 20 days now. Just yesterday, however, I'm guessing the eggs started signaling they were nearly ready. Queen Wyandotte decides she'd kinda like some chicks, so she turns broody, shoulders...
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    Lost enough *insert appropriate curse* birds.

    So I lost another girl to the fox menace. The thing collapsed half her run, pinning her underneath it. She was in a temporary pen, because the other birds were picking on her. Tonight, the live trap is going out, with a chicken leg in it, but I want no one under the illusion that this is catch...
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    Best way to contain broody's chicks?

    My maran Martha Jones went militantly broody, so I got her some eggs to hatch. She insists on staying in her nest box in the coop, which is fine, I don't mind a few pecks every morning when I go to get eggs. The trouble is my coop is elevated some distance above the run, with a really slapped...
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    Challenging introduction

    So here's the deal; I bought three mottled houdans to add to my current flock of three, queen wyandotte, an ee, and a maran. They turned out to be two boys and a girl, which was fine, I'd keep the boys until they were big enough to protect the pullet at intro time, then sell them. Problem is, I...
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    When can young Roos fertaliser eggs?

    Possibly in the wrong section but... I have two mottled houdans cockerels, spurrs are growing and they're finding their crows, and I have a super broody maran. If I put the boys with the laying hens, how old do the guys have to be before I get a fertile egg from them? I can't keep them forever...
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    Mottled Houdans, boys or girls?

    I'm figuring my Houdans are at least 11 weeks old. They are all about the same size. I was told I was getting a trio of m/f/f, but it wasn't a sure thing. Looking at them, one is without doubt a boy; he's getting some red bulgy bits under his beak where his wattles are coming in. The other two...
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    Is surgical silence an option?

    I read about people caponising their own birds, and doing sour crop surgeries, but I have another question; I live in a neighborhood, so this means that thus far, I've been eating any chicken that has the misfortune to have a pair. So in my case, this would be life saving surgery. My question...
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    Fear of log?

    Anyone have any advice helping hens get over weird fears? I have this old stump that was getting all soft and full of holes, so I figured I'd throw it in for the hens to tear apart. You know, some entertainment. Day four, and they have still not left the coop to investigate. The most they'll do...
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    Heart attack?

    So, I'm feeling really crappy. My most Ameraucana looking hen just recently keeled over for no apparent reason. The other birds are looking fine, and she had been too. Until I thought they looked a bit cold and drafty in the winter cold. So I took a big piece of scrap plywood and opened up the...
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