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    Leg Injury - Help needed

    Hello all. A week ago my flock was attacked by fox. All birds that survived are recovering well except for Varia. Varia is large pekin cross. Her only visible injury was a nasty tooth gouge in her back which is healing well. The vet gave her a few days of metcam and antibiotics.Her left...
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    more fox trouble

    Hello my dear duck friends. Since the dog is no more, the fox has been getting closer and closer. The other day my partner saw it in the pen. I was being extra careful and having issues with my favourite call, Leelu who is a wanderer. Just about every day I was crying thinking she was a goner...
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    Trouble with my littlest call

    Little Leelu has been having trouble for weeks now. Her eyelid got ripped off by a nasty drake and barely escaped infection, it is still healing. Despite my attempts to keep him away from her he kept getting to her and I'm worried he's done some damage. She's looked awful the last week, ragged...
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    bird died not long after ivermectin dose?

    Hi all. One of my young birds quickly collapsed and died after being given ivermectin. I'm dosing them for worms and mites as well as using permethrin spray for feather mites. I've been dosing 0.2ml per bird. He went paralysed in one leg, then the other, then full collapse in under 2 minutes. I...
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    foamy eye trouble

    Some weeks ago I noticed my favourite call girl, Leelu, had a sore eye. It was not ever foamy, just obvious that she was rubbing it a lot. She kept telling me it was fine until the other day I determined to wash it and found her fluffed up and depressed with the eye all closed over. Not red, not...
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    What colour is this call?

    My friend says hes black bibbed, but the bib is too big. I think hes part chocolate, as the body is too brown compared to the head. Hes my new outcross from my snowys, hes breeding snowy girls, a blue and a black bibbed. I have NO IDEA about colours. The combos do my head in. I just go for...
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    8 eggs set and go!

    About a week ago set 9 eggs. One broke, had to toss it, clean the bator, freaked me out I might upset the hatch. I candled 8 today and all look live. Wonderful veins! They will all be call or call cross. I have snowy drakes, 2 snowy girls, a blue girl, a black bibbed girl and one drake who is...
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    Broody scovy, most likely on nothin

    So Gina went broody and I let her have it...I usually take the eggs immediately because I cant take the devastation when nothing happens. I either incubate myself or put them straight in the fridge. She hit 5 eggs the other day and seems to have stopped, built a beautiful soft downy nest...
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    Abbey again

    Abbey has a small chunk of metal caught over the edge of his beak. Its right against his face and initially, I thought it was just caught over his beak. It is actually in the flesh on the outside, cant see the inside. He's booked for vet tomorrow. Hopefully bit of sedation, pliers or cutters...
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    Duck with cut leg

    Got a new girl the other day, I didnt know her wings werent clipped. She got away from me and got hooked by the leg on barbed wire. The cut is very small, less than half an inch, But very deep. She is very sore. Ive been cleaning it with buffered iodine spray. I let her go in with the other...
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    One roo, or two?

    Im pretty sure I know the answer. Just want to confirm. Heres me boys. The more brightly coloured with the good plumey tail is Roo Beast. Ive known he was a rooster since he was a chick. Crooked tail was going to be Velvet but now gets Val Kilmer. Ive been holding on to a vain...
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    My little Wist

    Last Tuesday afternoon my favoured drake Wist was killed by my dog Simon. Ive created a new album for Wist https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/7031749/wist/ Im just shattered. Still cant believe this has happened. The dog was on the chain as he always is when the birds are out. Just a few...
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    Cloudy thick egg whites?

    My recently acquired rescue chook is a 5 year old Isa brown. The guy who gave her to me said she doesn't lay eggs but she's been giving me a nice big egg each day. Only trouble is the whites are thick, cloudy and yellowish. What is it and can they still be eaten? The egg appears healthy...
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    Question about ACV

    Some time ago I was on a thread where we were discussing Apple Cider Vinegar and its uses with poultry. Some one was talking about how if you have the organic one with mother in it you can make more by adding water and letting it ferment. Im wondering if anyone can remember what dimensions...
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    Sold my first duck today

    Sold little Thorne! He was the one I most needed to get rid of, just way too agressive to the other boys and hard on the girls, I thought no one would want him because his brothers are far more brightly coloured. The guy fell in love with him straight away and said my calls were very dainty and...
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    Any idea of breed?

    Hello All, I got these guys just before Easter, they were rescued. I'm pretty sure Ive got 2 girls and a roo, and the little girl is an Isa Brown, but I have no idea what the bigger ones are. I thought they were just broilers but they are going creamish brown over their backs and wings...
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    Do your eggs taste different every time?

    I have 7 girl ducks and 2 chickens and they free range. My eggs always taste different depending on what they eat. Do you have this problem and what you do?
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    My new chicks

    I think they are about 4 weeks old. I'm starting to think the one looking up at the camera is a roo. He's always apart from the others. He stands up to me when I go in. I've started playing with him a bit, letting him peck me and play fight my hand. Should I be doing this, or should I treat him...
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    No Eggs?

    No duck eggs for over a month! I had to buy eggs the other day.... Yes, everyone is moulting, but they are just finishing. Usually even through moult the 3 big pekin crosses will keep dropping an egg or two. I have 7 girls and 2 chickens. Ive started picking up the odd one from the australorp...
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    My fox repellent - anyone with fowl and dogs please comment

    Ok so this is Simon Hes a maremma shepard X lab that I rescued from the pound. Over the first few days I felt kinda like I brought home a cane toad....No more fox problem but a great big dog problem! He tries to chase EVERYTHING! I was worried he might have lived rough and hunted but I...
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