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    4 week old chick having seizures? Please help!

    I have a 4 week old mix breed female chick, who started carrying her head funny yesterday. She was carrying it low, like she couldnt stand up straight. Had a stiff neck look. It kept getting progressively worse, and lower, but she was eating and drinking and hoping about like everyone else in...
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    How do I make a LF Blue Barred cochin flock?

    Ok, all you chicken genetic junkies, heres one for you. I want blue barred cochins. Not like the lemon cuckoos where only the male shows the barring, but like the barred cochins, but in BLue. I understand the bbs genetics, but not the barring gene (yet). How do I make a Blue barred LF...
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    Ear infection in a silkie roo.... anyone know what to do?

    I have a young Male silkie that keeps getting ear problems. He is the only bird in my large flock to have this issue. His ear canals fill up with the stinky cheese, and then scab over. I have to keep opening them up, and he hates it. as I imagine it hurts. I am careful not to push...
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    WTB Gold Brabanter Eggs, NH or you can ship to me.

    Hello, I am seeking good quality Gold Brabanter Eggs. I would like at least a dozen, Possibly more, depending on your price, I would like to put together a small breeding flock, so I would like more than one supplier if possibly, so even if you just have a few eggs, please contact me! I will...
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    Isnt 'Splash' just blue and white?.....

    I have blue Cochins, (among other things) and I know the blue genetics, Blue black and splash etc. But recently on 'craigs list', I have been seeing people advertising Splash birds, but when I go to look at the birds, they are not white with blue markings, but something else. One lady had...
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    What is wrong with this chick? Arrested development?

    My name is Chicken Pied Piper, and I am a Hatcha-holic. I have chicks incubating or in the brooder at all times, I cant help it. However, every once in a while, I get a chick that just seems to stop growing. In the photo below, you can see this one. It is the same age as all the others...
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    Female chicks dying one by one, males fine? Ideas?

    Ok, I have a pen of 2 frizzle roosters, and a bunch of non related smooth coat frizzles and silkie hens. I get a high rate of frizzle babies. BUT, the female chicks all seem to 'fail to thrive'. They are in the same brooder, same food, same age, but they never get out of the fluff stage...
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    HELP! Need other hatchlings today! in NH/Maine

    Currently nestled in a warm spot on my body is a new baby I found on the floor of the coop today! None of my broodies are scheduled to hatch for at least two weeks, and my other hens with babies are too far along to slow down for a hatchling!! I need a few other babies that just hatched, or...
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    Chicken diapers made out of baggies and elastics?

    A year or so ago, I saw a post on here about a lady who simply used sandwich baggies and an elastic to make inexpensive chicken diapers that her birds hardly noticed. I have a house chicken who hates her lovely professionally made diaper, and tumbles all around the floor trying to get it off...
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    What is wrong with this hens head?

    I adopted a bunch of retired barred rock hens. They were well treated by an experienced old timer. they were all in great shape, except of course the fact that they were all molting. (no worries there) However. one of the hens has a naked head. not from the molt either, they have been here...
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    What is wrong with my Muscovy's wings!

    Ok, I am new to Ducks. Have raised chickens and turkeys for years. The very first duckling I get and raise seems to have some sort of weakness in her wings. Has anyone ever seen this? The wings are not broken or damaged, when she flaps them, they are shaped just like the other ducks. and we...
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    How do you keep roadside eggs 4-sale from freezing?

    I have a small hut at the end of my driveway, and we put a small fridge in it for the summer to keeps eggs handy for our customers, and they dont have to come all the way up to the house. This works great in the summer. However, come winter, when it gets cold, all the eggs freeze and crack...
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    vaccinate your own chicks! Heres how!

    Vaccine is currently available at Jeffers Livestock supply. Online Hello All, I recently discovered this wonderful article about self vaccinating chicks for Mareks. Here is a link to the article, and below is the basic info, without the photos. I suggest you go and look at the article with...
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    Chicks gasping and dieing. Please Help!!

    Ok, I have a big flock of free range chickens and Turkeys. (I know they are not supposed to be together, but they are, and are doing fine.) My problem is with my chicks. at between 2-4 weeks of age, about 30-40% of every batch of free range chicks start doing this wierd Gasping behavior...
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    Is this cochin Lemon Blue?

    Hello, I picked up this beauty at a swap, and love his coloring! She said it was a Blue/Red Cochin, well, he is that! But I cant find any other reference to this color, and want to know more about it, and what I should breed him to to produce more! I am sorry the pics are all of his backside...
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    Ever put hatchery chicks under a hen?

    Normally I wouldnt do it, but I have an odd situation, I have 5 broody banties, all in the same coop. they all had eggs to begin with, but as I kept checking I noticed that something weird was going on, they were playing musical nests, and the number of eggs under each hen was changing! I now...
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    Want to buy rare color polish in NH

    Greetings! I was doing some research on our beloved Polish, and discovered all the ASTONISHING colors they come in, Now, I have a bunch of the run of the mills, but I am looking for those really different ones to add to the flock, I am willing to travel for the right birds, and will even...
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    Seeking owner of lost homer in Florida

    A neighbor has rescued a Homer from a hawk in her yard It is wearing FSIF #87 Band (Florida Suncoast Invitational Futurity) We contacted Race officials and they cant seem to come up with an owners name! It is over a week now and neighbr is eager to get bird out of her sun porch. If any one...
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    Ever traveled with your favorite Chicken?

    Ok, I have a special young Blue Ameracauna, whom I love to pieces. His name is Anakin. He is about 4 months old. He has been out in the coop with other birds for some time now, and is not doing well, he acts and looks like he is starving, all hunched up, under the lights, and his face is...
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    Fresh Egg salad with out ever peeling another egg!!! EUREKA!!

    I have long been a fan of the famous boil it for 18 minutes, and then chill it to peel it. And I still firmly believe this is the best way to make deviled eggs. HOWEVER.... have you ever wanted to just make egg salad quickly, or wanted to use up all those bantam eggs or OEGB eggs, with out...
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