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    Is this flystrike? If so how can I treat?

    We have no idea what this is. Bulging sac filled with maggots below her vent. We've been told it is likely flystrike and by the looks of it, pretty severe We feel so negligent. The brown surrounding the opening is not feces as we first thought. We believe it’s necrotic tissue. She smells of...
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    Sex-Linked Chocolate Orpington Fertile Eggs - Standard Size!

    One of our black Australorps, aptly named Moody, went broody for the 3rd time. She is 3 yrs and our flock sadly was down-sized by a sudden, unexplained death in March and a dog attack in April. Anyhoo, instead of breaking her AGAIN, we decided to get her some fertile eggs once we determined she...
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    No Idea Why Our Girl Died!

    Out of town for 3 1/2 days and had a neighbor opening up the door to the run in the AM (not checking on birds) and allowing the girls to free range for a bit in the evening (not checking but aware of them coming out of run/coop) before closing up the coop at dark. Left Thursday afternoon, her...
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    built huge run to keep neighbors dog from killing our girls but now have another predator....oyyyy

    My daughter went to check on our 3 remaining girls at 3pm, in their new run that my husband erected after losing 2 of our girls on very cold, snowy day to neighbors dog that entered the coop, girls wouldn't leave because of 6 inches of snow on ground, only to find her favorite New Hamp. Red with...
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    My girls are feeling a little cooped up...lol...hanging cabbage didnt work

    On day 4 of snow covered ground, frigid temps with no end in sight per weather station. Any suggestions other than the hanging cabbage to entertain my girls. They didn't like it when I tried it yesterday. It's not horribly cold, 15 degrees, but they hate the snow. They are given regular...
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    should I follow thru with animal control complaint

    I am still reeling from our neighbors dog coming into our yard and killing 2 of our chickens last Friday. I realize now it is in part my fault for not protecting them properly (I have ordered Premier-1 permanet plus) The day the attack occurred the chickens wouldn't leave the coop due to the...
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    Confused need advice/info on electric fencing for keeping birds in and predators out

    I am so confused about electric fencing for chickens. It's my understanding the chickens are still able to get out when netting is used and that it can easily short out from grass, leaves or branches. Also because it is netting it is prone to sagging. Any advice info on what is best to keep...
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    Sweetest, favorite chicken killed today by dog

    Well we've had a sad few months here but today was the worst ever!!! Our favorite Pekin went missing at dusk a few days before thanksgiving. We never figured out what happened to her so we were gradually able to adjust to her absence. Our 3 mallards decided it was their time to find mates and...
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    duck dilemma ....makes me so sad everynight

    We had 3 female mallards and one female pekin...inseparable. Pekin was the leader, serious mother "goose". Right before cooping up for the night about 5 weeks ago (11/24/13) she and 2 mallards were spooked off by something. Not sure what is was but relatively certain is was not fox, eagle or...
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    New Hampshire Red "bit" by hungarian hunting dog

    8 1/2 month old NHR got into neighbors fenced in yard and was not really attacked or bit but the dog had her in his mouth. She was really freaked out of course. I checked her and found no signs of major injury, blood, just loss of feathers. Mostly tail area, the hollow shaft quill is still...
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    broody mallard....is it ok if she sits on the eggs...could be fertile???

    One of my 3 mallards has gone broody. We have wild mallards in our area and our mallards fly off a few times a day and my husband has seen a male mallard in our yard ONCE. Is it unhealthy if she sits on eggs that will never hatch (we have a pekin and 5 chickens also) so she is sitting on some...
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    Mallard eggs

    I have 3 female mallards and 1 Pekin that I'm 99.9% certain is female. One or more of my Mallards is laying eggs (they're all 4 months old). They are not sitting on them. I just find them in the coop they share with our 5 chickens in the morning. I'm assuming they are not fertile but they do...
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    Whose egg it this??

    I just found the egg on the left (for comparison the white egg is run of the mill store bought large egg) pretty much in the middle of our yard. I have no idea who it belongs to. At first it appeared greenish gray. I took it over to the flock and of course all the chickens (2 buff orpingtons, 1...
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    chickens spooked by neighbors cat at dusk, 2 missing

    My 4 month old chickens put themselves to bed in coop between 8:30 and 8:45. They share the coop with 3 mallards and 1 pekin. Tonight I saw the chickens start their slow ritual of getting into the coop and up on their roosts. The ducks always need a little coaxing to get in. I had to go inside...
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