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My last few local feed store chicks have had reproductive issues so I am hoping to look for someone with healthy genetics (I know it will always be a gamble, but hoping to start with a better background). They are just pets so I want to prioritize long life over egg production. I would...
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After Alice had a crop impaction last year, she has been banned from grass. She loves greens so I want to keep the area she has access to planted, but I am uncertain about the best choices.
Nothing too long or stringy. Fast growing and drought tolerant preferred since I am in AZ.
I...
Hello, I have an Easter egger who is about 15months old and she started molting a couple weeks ago. The lose a ton of feathers rapidly type molt. She stopped laying when she started molting. I had to go out of town for 6 days and when I returned last night she seems to have lost weight (not...
Hello, so Pixie hurt her toe and went to the vet about 3 weeks ago (was discolored). About a week later some of the feathers on top of her head were disheveled. I thought maybe she hit her head on the screen. She was about 2 months old and was due to be moved to a real pen instead of the...
So one of my little button quail managed to get her toe tangled with a single hair. Apparently the hair cut into the toe, didn't realize this at first. Friday it happened, Saturday she was limping, Sunday it was redish (didn't look swollen rather like she had picked at it). Had stopped limping...
Hello, so one of my little button quail hens appears to have something wrong.
So she had a large amount of urates stuck to her cloaca this morning and again this afternoon. Her stomach is certainly distended and feels soft and extra squishy to the touch. She has always been fairly mellow but I...
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So Peasblossom is a barred rock Birthday is in January so she is just under 4 years old. Earlier this week she wasn't acting right, then Tuesday her comb looked a little discolored and she had a lot of poop on her butt.
I took her to an avian vet, they did radiographs and an ultra sound...
When I got her from the feed store she was listed as an Ameraucana (they are pets so wasn't worried that they would probably be EE's), but as she got her feathers she never got the muffs and beard feathers so I was wondering what breed she actually is. She is around 2 and a half months old. Her...
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I've raised chickens the majority of my life. Almost every year I get a pair of chicks and spoil them with lots of attention and keep them with me as much as possible, but this is new and they have me worried.
I got two Ameraucana's a week ago, they appear to be about 1-2 weeks old at...