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    Sick duck, possibly egg bound

    Last night my big duck had difficulty coming into the coop. I picked her up and her abdominal area appears swollen and distended. I’m not sure she’s egg bound but after watching a few videos I found she looks like she maybe. I read to give her some calcium and soak her and apply some...
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    Help, My hens are killing the chicks they are hatching!

    So this year I had two old lady birds decide to sit on a nest in my barn. Because I was in a old stall I'm not using I decided to let them. Both took up residentcy on the same nest...So I had roughly 12 eggs then they started missing...I thought maybe something was snatching them. Then there...
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    Lost two birds and I'm not sure what animals did this. Please help so I can protect my flock

    Lost two chickens out of the front yard yesterday. It was around dusk but still light out. I found feathers from whatever animal it was in multiple piles but the feathers were from the birds in the coop the two birds missing are my silver laced polish a really small bird and my rooster. Now...
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    Help with duck eggs

    We set several different breeds of duck eggs. We kept the temp and humidity right according to the paperwork sent with the eggs. We candled and marked the eggs before lock down and thought they looked good. On day 26 we had one khaki cambel duck hatch and nothing else. Today makes day 29 and...
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    Hen pulling feathers

    I have a hen that likes to pull feathers out on the other birds. My rooster doesn't even have tail feathers because of her. She's a great layer and I don't want to get rid of her. So here's my question...do I pull her out and single her out for a while and let the others heal or do I pull out...
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    Feather pecking...please help!

    I have two wayndotte hens and they went after my easter egger hen, she now has a large area of missing feathers and some raw spots that are a bit bloody. I have her quarentined and I cleaned the area and put some antiseptic on her that says it's for chickens called poultry aid. Also I put some...
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    Hatched Polish chickens...how do you tell the gender of this breed?

    Have four chicks...all are just over two weeks old. I've been trying to figure out how you tell the gender of this breed. Any help would be great. I think this is a rooster... This is a close up of that bird... I'm hoping this one will be a pretty silver laced.. This one is jet black and...
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    Help...first time hatching

    So two chicks hatched today while I was at work. They both appear to be doing fine and stand up walk a bit and fall over then fall asleep. During hatching and in walking they have managed to move the rest of the eggs to one corner of the incubator. What do I do with these eggs do I move them or...
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    Hatching for the first time!

    My husband and I decided to try hatching eggs for the first time. We put them in lock down the other day and I'm getting frustrated waiting for them to hatch. We aren't sure we did every thing right but when we put them all in and candled them they looked like they had developed correctly. I got...
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    Hi...

    So I broke down and bought three baby chicks yesterday from a local feed store. All the chicks seem to be doing well so far. I'm not too sure how my older girls will handle the new ones once they are old enough to go out to the coop. Any suggestions on how to do introductions?
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