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  1. ChickDancer

    Looking for baldness/pluck answers for Macaw

    Yesterday, I received a rescued B&G Macaw. It is an assumed female, who was abandoned. Tenants moved out of a rental house and left her behind - locked in her cage for several weeks alone. I've owned parrots before, but not one in this horrible shape! I'll start looking for a good avian vet...
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    Cockatiel breeding questions

    I recently received four cockatiels, all housed in one cage together. One pair is about 14 years old, so I wasn't expecting much from them. The other is about 7 years old. Or so I've been told, anyway. I wanted to split up the pairs because the cage wasn't all that big, and the younger female...
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    Baby Royal Palm strutting photos (just three weeks old)

    This little poult decided my sister's cat was a threat. The cat isn't. He hasn't hurt a single chick since I started raising chickens - bantams included. He was in the area chasing me for attention. That's all he wanted. He showed up on my sister's door step 12 years ago, already full grown. So...
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    Spraddle/Splayed leg or...?

    Lately I've had a few chicks hatch that can't stand or walk within a few hours like they are supposed to. But their legs don't actually spread out to the sides, either. They do walk on their hocks like a spraddle leg chick will sometimes do. But their actual feet are up by their head - or...
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    Are ants okay?

    I took both of my little poults outside today and let them play in a pen for a bit. During this time, I tossed some mealworms in with them, and one of them HAPPILY ate them. Of course he had to fight the chicks for his first bite, but once he got a taste of them, it was on! The other one didn't...
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    So how did you lose YOUR poults?

    I got six Royal Palm hatching eggs from a seller here on BYC and it's my very first time owning turkeys at all. One had a detached air cell, and didn't make it very far into development. No big deal. Another died a few days before it was due. And a third I probably helped out when I shouldn't...
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    The quest to stop predators...

    I lost my best roo recently to a fox. It was a huge loss for me, as he was my big baby, and I took it hard. So in the past 2+ weeks, I've been on a quest to build something to secure chickens in (or the ducks and geese we acquired this year) to protect them. No more free-ranging, simply because...
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    How did I do? (Emergency Crop Surgery)

    I went outside to feed the chickens some scratch grain I had just bought. Turned around to leave their pen and one cornish rock is flopping around and gasping. Now I hate the idea of going through so much trouble for a cornish rock. But then it was too small to just finish off and process, and...
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    "Pest repellers" Can chickens "hear" them?

    I'm devastated today. Predators have been worse than normal this year. I'm thinking the bad winter may have killed off a few of their favorite "dishes" leaving them to raid my flock. The full story of what happened today is HERE. But let's get down to business. I've read and seen several...
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    Oops... cool!

    So completely unintentional... I purchased and set six Royal Palm turkey eggs on April 28th, of all the dates on the calendar... That leaves them due to hatch on Memorial Day. Sweet, huh?
  11. ChickDancer

    12+ BLACK SUMATRA HATCHING EGGS

    Selling one dozen rare SUMATRA hatching eggs. Sumatras are originally from the island of Sumatra, off of Asia. They are considered a rare breed, and critically endangered according to the Livestock Conservacy. They love to free-range and adults are very adept at escaping predators. They have a...
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    How common is it for swedish ducks to have a crest?

    I just picked up a blue and black duckling as a "replacement" for a pekin duckling that my nephew lost to an unknown predator. They have since been moved to a MUCH more secure pen, so I'm not worried about that happening again. I got them from a bin of "mixed ducklings" but they appeared to be...
  13. ChickDancer

    WANTED: POMERANIAN GOOSE HATCHING EGGS

    I am looking for someone with Pomeranian geese, who would be willing to sell and ship some hatching eggs to me. I know most of the geese out there are probably going broody about now, so if I have to wait until next year, I will. Just let me know if you raise these, and how much you'd sell the...
  14. ChickDancer

    Help with a roo missing part of his scalp - skull exposed

    I don't want to post pics of the actual wound yet. It's gruesome. He's alive, but is missing about a 1-inch circular area of his scalp. His skull is actually exposed. So far, I have taken a non-stick gauze pad and coated it with Vaseline. Then I applied it to his exposed skull, and used...
  15. ChickDancer

    *Sniffle* *sniffle* *cry*

    http://atlanta.craigslist.org/sat/pet/4388050595.html
  16. ChickDancer

    How exactly do you calibrate a thermometer?

    I've got five thermometers. Two are digital thermometer/hygrometers. They are the kind you get from Wal-mart for $8. Then I've got three bulb-style thermometers. Two came with my LG incubators, and one is a cheap $1 bulb-style that came glued to a piece of plastic with the numbers on it. ALL...
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