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  1. CandylandRanch

    Rabbits with chickens

    i have an extremely large chicken house, 16x25 or so.. My husband came home with a rabbit just now.. Can it live in the coop with the chickens?
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    Are your Marans mean?

    i ordered 18 chickens from my pet chicken. They are mixed flock and they arrived in March. They are now almost 14 weeks old. I have 4 BCMs. (Although two are missing the copper). I found one of the Orpingtons a couple weeks ago ripped to shreds and limping. I observed everyone and saw a BCM...
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    Help please, large skin wound.

    i went to let my 18, 13 week olds out in the run today and found this. One of my little lavander Orpingtons laying down with her all her feathers missing and a lot of skin scrapped off. I have rinsed her with betadine and sprayed with vetericyn, I will apply triple antibiotic ointment. Do I...
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    Antibiotics?

    what type of antibiotics do I need for a bad bumble foot? My husband says I can get the same medicines at tractor supply that a vet has, is that true? The only vet in my area wants $73 just to walk through the door :(
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    Bumble foot gone terribly wrong!

    im so sad.. My 3 month old BCM Pullet has bumble foot. I tried my hand at doing an in home surgery over a week ago , all seemed fine until I went to change her bandage and the same yucky black scan was back, it seemed swollen again and some blood was oozing out from the edge of the scab. I re...
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    Wry neck- poly vi sol dosage?

    thanks to the helpful people here on BYC I have been able to diagnose my 10 week old salmon faverolle with wry neck. I just picked up some poly vi sol and wondered how much I give her and how often? Thank you! I don't want to overdose the poor thing.
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    Puts head between legs and walks backwards

    i have a 10 week old salmon faverolle pullet who I have noticed a few times now she puts her head between her legs in a sort of frantic episode and walks/runs backwards, like she is almost going to fall over. It sounds harmless but it looks pretty frantic.. My 9 year old started balling watching...
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    Lavender orpington gender guess

    I have two lavender orps and not a lot is making me think this one is a cockerel except for the sounds it is making. No crows yet but all the other hens still sound like peeping chicks (all 10weeks old) and this one makes those "young boy who's voice is changing" sounds.. Like a cockerels...
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    Feather plucking meany

    So this Is Joan rivers. And she had plucked every saddle feather out of one of my Orpingtons, has started on another, and now is plucking the neck feathers out of my favorite chicken! Do I attempt to retrain her? Or do I invite her to dinner? I have never killed one of my babies before.. But I...
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    Drying sand

    So I recently invested in 6 cubic yards of sand for my large coop. We live in Michigan and its spring so it's been rainy. The Sand was not dry when he loaded it into the coop, but we thought it would dry better inside of the coop than it would continually being rained on in our driveway. And...
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    cleaning & bedding - how much/how often?

    How much and how often should the coop be cleaned. I know it will vary depending on the size of the coop and number of birds.. But is there some kind of bird per sq ft formula for determining how much pine shavings one should be using? And how much is everyone spending on pine?? Reasons for...
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    new coop, creating seperate rooms!?

    i have my husband, father in law and uncle here today I help turn a 26 by 11 section of our pole barn into a new hen house. We have 18 babies coming . We also have a 12x16 or so coop and they will have connected runs. There is a door 15 feet in on the long side, and a window on the NW short...
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    new coop, breeding pens?

    i have my husband, father in law and uncle here today I help turn a 26 by 11 section of our pole barn into a new hen house. We have 18 babies coming . We also have a 12x16 or so coop and they will have connected runs. There is a door 15 feet in on the long side, and a window on the NW short...
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    BR pullet or cockerel ?

    This baby is 6 weeks old. Hatchery stock. I noticed the white under the neck a bit, and also maybe reddish wattles? And not by much, but the barring does looks slightly more defined than the other three barred rocks I have. I'm posting a suspected Pullet below for comparison And this last pic...
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    Silkie sexing

    i ordered two silkies and have never owned silkies before. One is white and one is partridge. I have read a lot of information about sexing silkies. I know it's pretty hard to tell until they are much older. Mine are 6 weeks old. The partridge has always been much more curious than the white...
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    BCM pullet or cockerel?

    i have 4 BCM chicks that are all 6 weeks old. One is much larger and is the only one with a hint of color in its comb, the rest are still very pale pink. Here is my suspected roo.. I have never owned BCMs before so I am unsure of what to look for in male to female coloring changes as they...
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    Salmon faverolle

    I ordered four salmon faverolle chicks from MPC. They are about 5 weeks old now. All four look almost identical, except one has blackish breast feathers, where they other three have pure white breast feathers with little tan specs. Safe to say my black Breasted little chick is a roo?
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    Home made egg cartons?

    have any of you ever made their own egg cartons? Ceramic, paper pulp or anything? I am going to take on this venture.. But it's always nice to have encouragement from others who have walked the road before you lol. I know they can be bought for reasonably cheap, but my point is to create, and we...
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    My rooster flew the coop?!

    so my 10 hens and rooster will be a year old this may. They have had access to an enclosed 8 ft run without a roof this whole time. Every once in a while we let them out to have supervised free range time, anywhere from an hour to 3 maybe.. Once a hen slipped out the front doors of the coop...
  20. CandylandRanch

    SW Michigan- 2 easter egger cockerels

    12 weeks old. Their father is our flock rooster and is so sweet and docile! We love him. We just don't have room for so many roosters. Best offer/trade/or free to good home. They have been fed non GMO food.
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