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    Eggs with Rough Texture, Thin Shells

    Recently, I've been getting many defective eggs from my small flock of backyard chickens. 1. The shell texture is rough, almost like sandpaper with tiny little bumps 2. The shells are generally very thin 3. The whites of the egg are gooey and clumpy and seem to have a lot of water (lots of...
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    "Processing" service in Bay Area, CA

    I have a small flock of backyard chickens, geese, and ducks (~20). My family and I are leaving town for an extended period of time, and would like to slaughter and process the birds before we leave. Unfortunately my experience with this is pretty limited; I've done a duck and a chicken roughly a...
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    Is this normal breathing behavior for goslings?

    These three gosling have been my first experience raising these adorable little things, but I'm worried sick that there may be something wrong with them! I'm not sure what normal breathing behavior for goslings are (these three are 5 days, 3 days, and 2 days) but it seems to me that they are...
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    Gosling Just Hatched unexpectedly, first time raising, need help!

    So I've been placing my fertile geese eggs under my broody hen in hopes that she'd manage to hatch them. To be honest, I was under the impression that the chances of them hatching would be close to impossible, since I've heard a lot about how the chicken can't keep the large geese eggs warm...
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    First Incubation Help!

    So, my call ducks have been having eggs this past spring, and it just so happened that my Orpington became broody roughly a week and a half ago. Not thinking much, I put any eggs I found under her (whenever I'd find one, I'd stick it under.) However, four days ago, I was surprised to see that...
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    Can I place eggs in an incubator after they've been incubated by a hen

    Okay, this may be a bit of an odd question. But one of my hens has been broody, so I placed a few of my call duck eggs under her. It's been a week since I placed them there. But now I may have to leave on vacation for a good month, and I don't have anyone willing to watch over a broody hen...
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    Sick duckling!!

    I posted this earlier in the Duck section of the forum, but didn't get a reply. Hopefully, I can get some more advice here. Around a week ago, I adopted three Pekin ducklings from a friend, who hatched them from eggs as a project for her third grade class. One of the ducklings has been having...
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    Sick Duckling?

    Hi there! So around a week ago, I got three Pekin ducklings from a friend of mines, who incubated the eggs and hatched them for her third grade class. One of them is, to my best knowledge blind. His eyes are watery and the pupils are kind of rolled back, and his beak is a bit deformed. However...
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    Question about my new ducklings

    Hi there! So, a one of our family friend's daughter is a third grade school teacher, and apparently, every year they have a duck hatching project. But once the ducks grow older, they end up giving them away to farms. This year, I told her that I could take the ducks, since I have three call...
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    Are my chickens molting?

    Yesterday, I was shocked to discover that two of my hens were losing feathers by the handful. There were feathers all over the coop and the ground. I took a grab at them to check them out, and discovered that their feathers seemed to be breaking(?) off, and they felt "bony" all over. Afraid...
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    Ectiban D on lice?

    Just today I discovered that one of my chickens is infested with what I think is lice (small white specks.) She's been loosing a lot of feathers lately, and a closer inspection revealed little tiny white dots around the feathers. I have a bottle of Ectiban D (Poultry and Livestock Dust) which...
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    Call Ducks

    So, I just got three new call ducks yesterday afternoon, one male and two females. This morning, one of the females had laid an egg! This got me thinking, however... The owner told us that the trio are around two years old. Now, I know that chickens start laying less and less into their second...
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    Bald Butts

    Two of my chickens have been balding around the vent butt and neck area. I haven't seen any of my other chickens actively attacking them, and I don't own any roosters. I'm afraid it might be mites or lice. Any advice?
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    Hawk or Dog?

    Long, long story: So, I usually let my chickens out of their coop in the early afternoon to wander around my yard and they always find their way back inside by sunset, in which I go and lock them in. Two days ago, I go to lock them in and find that I'm missing one of my Sussex. I spend the...
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    Who laid these?

    So recently, I bought three Sussex hens and two Golden Comets, all who are supposedly "already laying." I've had them for almost two months with no eggs, and just recently I've been getting one egg a day. One of the Golden Comet's comb and wattle has gotten larger and redder, and she seemed more...
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    Intense Pecking

    Hello! I'm new to the forum and new to chicken raising. A few weeks ago, a friend of mine gave me three of her young chickens because she wasn't able to keep that many. Anyway, they're around three months old and really cute. Although I can't tell their sexes yet, I know that one's a RIR, one's...
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