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    Pregnant (?) Rabbit - diet needs?

    Hi! Last week we brought home an American Chinchilla Rabbit and she had been with a buck, so we're treating her as pregnant. With a potential due date of February 19th. She is getting a good 2nd cut Timothy Hay and pellets. Is there any changes that I need to make to her diet before she...
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    New to geese ❤️ Can I add a new mate?

    Good morning! I have raise all of the farm animals for years....pigs, goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks.... but never ever geese. Yesterday, I acquired 3 Geese. Two Pilgrim (a mating pair) and an single Embden Gander. He lost his mate last winter and is just the tag-a-long at this point. They...
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    Goat with an infected castration band - Updated

    We have a 14 week old goat that we banded 4 weeks ago. I'm not exactly sure what happened (never had a problem before) but last night I noticed that where we banded him was discolored. His scrotum has been hard and cold for a few weeks now and I usually just take a quick glance. So last night I...
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    Adding a Pygmy with two Alpines

    So we have 2 8 month old Alpine girls now and my daughter wants a Pygmy. How would we go about adding a pygmy that's only 10 weeks old? I have a large dog kennel that I can seperate the little one a night when they are in the barn if that helps? Just curious if this possible....
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    Hatchery Silkies and giant wattles already?

    These are obviously the first silkies I have had and I'm now thinking I have at least 4 boys out of 6 :( But these are hatchery silkies and so we all know how that goes..... 3 have straight combs. Yes, straight combs. And 1 has 3 rows of a straight comb....kinda like an Easter Egger roo, but...
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    Fertile 5 month old Khaki Campbell drake?

    My khaki Campbell's were hatched out mid-March and I have 1 male and 3 females.....which have all been laying a month(ish). I have seen the bullseye in the eggs so I "think" they're fertile? The reason I'm asking is someone wants to buy hatching eggs from me and I'm such a newbie with that...
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    Blood in poop? (Gross picture)

    This morning I went out and one of my 21 week old Easter Egger was listless and not eating/drinking.....this was the first that I noticed any problem. She was dead about 4 hours later, I tried nutrition-drench. When I picked her up I noticed that she was very thin!!! Hardly any muscles on...
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    Jerking head and very vocal

    I have one pullet that about 21 weeks old and she's always been the vocal one....noticed about a month ago that she shakes/jerks her head a lot and now it seems to be almost constant. She just walks around jerks her head to the side, she will sometimes scratch the side of her head but not...
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    Khaki campbell duck flew away :( UPDATE: She came back in the morning!

    Every night we go out to the duck run and lock them up in their house...but tonight one of our ducks flew up and found a small hole in the netting overtop the run. She landed a few feet away from the run , in our yard, so I thought I would just "herd" her back to the run. Imagine my surprise...
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    We processed our first Roos....*Graphic story, no pictures*

    I am just warning everyone that this story is graphic! So as the story goes, we had too many cockerels this year (5 as a matter of fact) and I've been waiting to see which ones would be the keepers. After a few weeks of watching them getting more and more aggressive, both towards the females...
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    Do feathered legs breed true?

    Hello! I just had my first broody hatch out some eggs....YAY! I had to get eggs from someone else since my boys aren't old enough and I'm curious as to what I have. One was a mystery egg and I was told that it either came from a buff Orpington hen X barnyard mix Roo or a Brahma hen X the same...
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    Broody with mite and chicks are hatching :(

    So my broody's eggs started hatching yesterday and I went to check in her but walked out with teeny, tiny black bugs all over my arms!!! I'm assuming these are mites because I have never deal with them. What do I do for my hens....but especially my day old chicks!!!!
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    Easter Egger Cockerel & Speckled Sussex Cockerel - OH

    I have two roosters that I need to rehome. The first one is a very handsome Easter Egger and second one is a Speckled Sussex. Both are 12 weeks old from Mcmurray Hatchery....vaccinated for Mareks and Cocci. I'm sorry but I cannot ship, but I am willing to meet at an understandable distance. I...
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    First time and I have a predicament

    So my Australorp went broody 3 days ago and so I decided to get some fertile eggs for her. I'm on my way to pick them up and the lady calls me and told me that she has 3 eggs that had been set on for over a week (maybe 2?) and then 3 eggs that were just laid today? What do I do? Do I put the...
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    Which Khaki Campbell drake do I keep?

    We have six 13 week old khaki Campbell ducks and I now know that 3 are ducks and 3 are drakes. We don't have space to get more females so I am only able to keep one drake. I don't know drake personalities yet and so I need help figuring out which one I should keep for my females. Suitor # 1...
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    I told myself I wouldn't ask......

    I'm wondering if my "pullet" speckled Sussex is actually a roo.... I'm pretty sure it is (wasn't suppose to be), but everyone here knows how it goes :) They're from a hatchery and 6 1/2 weeks old now. Pic above...s/he is at the bottom right hand side of picture Then there's two of my 6...
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    Do I need to quarantine?

    I have 22 chicks that are 6 weeks old....and they're going out to their coop tomorrow! Yay! I'm getting one more 6 week old chick from a friend and I need to know if I need to quarantine? Mine came from McMurray and hers came from TSC...which they get their chicks from Mt. Healthy.
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    5 week old chicks, just sneezing

    My 22 chicks will be 5 weeks old tomorrow I was hoping to get them out in their coop next weekend (darn weather!).... Well, now a few of them are sneezing! They don't sound congested, no discharge, eyes are clear, but occasional sneezing. I put electrolytes and vitamins back in their water last...
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    The age old question

    I'm just going to start with this :hide And now I will ask.....my 6 khaki Campbell ducks will be 6 weeks old this weekend and they HAVE to go outside!!!! Their brooder box (fridge box) is quite literally falling apart from the water they throw around and poor things are running out of room :(...
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    1 week old polish chick making a clicking noise

    I received my group of chicks this week from Mcmurray....yay! The "extra" chick was a silver polish and was the one that has struggled since I got them on Monday. With Nutri-drench helping, I thought he would be good. He's struggled with a little pasty butt, not too bad though. And his umbilical...
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