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    Duckling with a closed eye

    My daughter had someone hatch our duck eggs for us since our duck won't sit and our broody hens have apparently drawn the line and won't sit on the duck eggs like we had hoped. Anyway, she brought home four yesterday (we traded for the hatch by letting them keep the rest). This morning one has...
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    Is it hopeless? Pekin going broody.

    So, what are the chances that a Pekin will sit and hatch a clutch of eggs? She's laying and made a nice nest- even kicked out the "fake" eggs (golf balls) that we stuck in her nest when we tried to get the hen to hatch some of her eggs- but the hen wasn't broody yet. She lays almost every day...
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    Need help with single-chicken coop

    We have a special needs hen (Cochin mix maybe smallish, or large for a bantam) that has ended up in her own coop. It's a 24" square hutch that is covered- it has a wire bottom. We originally isolated her because we thought she might have something that could spread to the rest of the flock...
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    Crossing fingers that the silkies will lay now...

    We have a tractor of 3 silkies (one is a rooster) and one random game hen that was an orphan and raised with them. They are happy, friendly, and 7 months old and still no eggs! We have other chickens that free range, but, we want pure silkies AND, honestly, I think the silkies would get eaten if...
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    Chicken with ONE swollen/infected/scabby eye

    No other symptoms, except maybe one small soar on her face near the infected eye. I've treated twice today with gentamyacin (sp?) ointment. Eating, free ranging, everything else normal. The other eye is *perfect.* I'm leaning toward just an injury that got infected. Anything else I should...
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    Escaping goat

    So, our Lamancha doe (7 months) has recently been causing some problems. She's always been very spirited, but until the past two weeks she has never gotten out of something that would be reasonably expected to keep goats in. Today, I she cleared the 4' back gate and my daughter saw her jump...
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    New, sort of

    Hi! I've been lurking around the forums for over a year, but finally registered. My daughter and I have caught the chicken bug. We started with 6 strait run chicks in March of 11, and now, um, we have a lot more, and ducks. 1 RIR rooster, 1 NN game rooster, 3 game hens, 1 Blue Orphington hen...
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