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    Pekin eating SOOOO much feed

    Hey y'all! I haven't been on here in years. We live in town and have had backyard chickens for years. We got some pekin ducks in the spring, 2 hens and a drake, as ducklings. They have access to grass and clean water all day long and we feed DuMor layer pellets twice a day. It is costing a...
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    Help!. Hawk injury

    I've searched the threads,i saw to glue but it's too big. My chicken wss grabbed by a hawk. She's alert but very stressed and in pain. What do I do?. I've washed it out.
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    Can you keep a goose with ducks?

    Good Morning! I asked this on the NC thread (only one I'm on), but can't get an answer, so hoping you those with geese can help me out! I have a big section of my yard closed off for the chickens to roam around and a rather large pen for my pair of crested pekin ducks. I don't keep the...
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    BEST Famous Women inspired Chicken names????

    We hatched eggs and waited to name until we were sure the genders of our birds. The rooster is Cluck Norris. His ladies need some fun names that are chicken related and inspired by famous people (actors, singers, celebrities, authors, whoever). What are your favorite fun chicken names...
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    Guess this chick?

    I've asked around to some friends and we're stumped! It's not a type of Leghorn. Standard size. I think it's pretty apparent that it is a cockerel. About 3-4 weeks old. Single comb, yellow legs, can't tell the lobe color yet obviously. Slow to feather in. White chick, but has some dark on the...
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    What breed of ducks are these?

    I'm new to ducks. Ideal Poultry ran an emergency sale on ducks because too many hatched so on a whim I got 20 (17 made it here alive). It was hatchery choice, straight run, whatever was extra. Unfortunately my 3 that arrived dead were the prettiest! I know the bigger yellow ones are white...
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    3 Week Old Lavender Orpingtons, gender guesses???

    I'm usually pretty good and guessing sexes of chicks, but these have me stumped! I hatched out 16, sold 12, and these are the 4 I kept. A few I got rid of were clearly roosters. I was really hoping I ended up with mostly girls. Out of all 16 they all had the same leg thickness. I tried to...
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    Chick hatched still attached to umbilical cord? HELP!

    I don't know if chicks even have umbilical cords, but there is a strong string, looks yolky with a red line guessing some sort of vein. It is coming out of the chicks stomach and attached to a hunk of yellow yolk still stuck to the shell. The chick is breathing, but can't really move around...
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    Can you eat a chicken that had Coryza?

    I know this is probably a crazy question, as common sense would tell me no, but I've searched this site and google and I haven't come across an answer (maybe I'm the only one who would think this was plausible...) I think I have to cull some chickens that I think had coryza. I have too many...
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    Robin Attacked by Crow or Black Bird

    As if I didn't have enough chicken problems of my own right now, nature wants to throw in robins! We have a pair of robins that build a nest right over my chicken coop. My kids love them and have named them and made them honorary pets. One of the eggs never hatched so mama threw it out of the...
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    Genetic Traits of Mixed Breeds? What's dominant?

    Hi everyone! I recently hatched some mail order mystery eggs where there was a whole list of possibilities for the dad and possibilities for the mom. In trying to guess what these little guys are, I started questioning dominance and recessiveness in chicken genes, but couldn't find anything on...
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    Upside Down Eyelid?

    This was my first time hatching chicks. Yesterday I had one that was from a barnyard mystery dozen (I don't know I think it has some type of Polish Top Hat in the mix?) is my favorite. Upon looking at him/her closely I noticed that it has a birth defect-- an upside down eyelid. Instead of...
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    MYSTERY CHICK!!!

    I just had my first hatch. A dozen eggs were Olive Eggers from one seller and the rest were a barnyard mystery pack by a second seller. This little guy (hopefully girl!) is my favorite out of the bunch, I wanted some guesses on what it is!!! Coloring: Head all white with little black spots...
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    PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

    I'm holding a chicken sobbing hysterically while I try to type this. I have called every emergency vet, the ones that are open no one treats chickens we live in the city. My husband is in the army trying to get in touch with the unit's vet, but no luck. I would rather lose my entire flock than...
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    What do you feed meat Broilers?

    Honestly, I don't know what to do. I try so hard to do what's best for my family, what's best for animals, and what's best for the Earth. When I became enlightened on factory farming and just how disgusting the American meat industry is I converted my family to vegan meats (we still eat our...
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    Deworming Bunnies???

    Long story short we added a few adult birds to the flock not knowing proper protocol on it, and they brought in tape worms. I gave all birds in my flock Zimecterin Gold to treat them for it, and I can see them coming out. Now my question is about deworming other animals: We have 2 lionhead...
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    How to sex Silver Spangled Hamburg Chicks?

    I posted on the Hamburg thread a few days ago, but no one will acknowledge me.... I picked up 7 Silver Spangled Hamburg chicks from a chicken auction last weekend. They are about 10 days old. I can't keep all 7, I want to pick out the 3 that are most likely females. How can you determine sex...
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    Can you train a rooster not to crow so much?

    You can train a dog not bark. You can train a chicken not to be broody. Is there anything you can do to cut down on your rooster crowing??? I have a silkie that is my baby. At 5 months old we found out Princess was really Prince when he started to crow. It wasn't very long and only around 7am...
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    Is this Cuckoo Maran a Pullet or Cockeral??? 3 weeks old

    I have a 3 week old Cuckoo Maran that I paid extra for as a sexed pullet. But we all know how often these hatcheries make mistakes. I really think I was sent a cockeral, but there was only one in the order so I don't have another for comparison. I'm going by the head pattern, the defined bar...
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    Is it too late to quarantine???

    We picked up some healthy looking chickens today at a chicken auction. My flock has coops and a pen, but they free range all day. I just assumed it was okay to let all the chickens in the yard since they were healthy, now I'm finding out I needed to quarantine. They've already shared a feeder...
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