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    Hen with eye injury

    Hi all. Last week one of our hens turned up with an eye injury. She's acting totally normal, we gave a couple shots of duramycin, then put her on ciprofloxin eye drops. It's helped some with the swelling, but I think it's stalled out. Advice? She's not a pet, so we aren't going to do anything...
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    Breeding Pen Size and Design

    So, chicken math is upon us again, along with a gifted incubator, and this year we would like to set up individual pens to house and breed our chickens in. Most of our breeds we have 5-7 hens and 1 rooster, so we are looking at somewhat larger pens. What size would you guys start out with? I...
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    Turkey poult got twine around foot.

    Hi all, A couple days ago, we came home to discover one of our turkey poults had it's ankle wrapped tightly in twine. We removed the twine, and are hoping for some feedback and opinions on his progress. Right now he is isolated in our spare bathroom making a disaster of it. A few hours after...
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    Thinking about getting Guineas

    So, we have talked about maybe getting guinea fowl for a while now here at our small farm. We have five acres and we are littered with ticks and fire ants, so I'm wondering if they really are as good for bug control as they are made out to be (our neighbor's free range chickens don't even make a...
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    12 Week Old Buff Orpington

    Hey guys. Just wanted to get opinions on this chick. The comb and wattles are a little brighter red and larger than the other buffs we have, but the tail seems a bit round for a roo. Thoughts?
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    Help with chick sexing

    Hey guys, so our chicks are just getting to about 7-8 weeks old, and I was hoping to get some help confirming sexes on some of them. We have about 40 chicks, so I'm only going to post a few at a time because taking pictures of them is a pain! Tonight I was curious about our two Salmon...
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    Urgent! Chick got string around tongue.

    We are having a bit of an emergency tonight. When changing out the water and food this evening, my SO discovered that one of our chicks had managed to get a string stuck on it's tongue. It was from the tarp that lines the large brooder box they are in, and it was not there at around 7pm when I...
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    New Babies!

    Hi all! I've posted a few times, and we finally got our baby chicks today! We originally ordered 27 Wyandottes (Silver, Gold, Blue/Red, and Columbian) and 18 Buff Orpingtons from McMurray Hatchery, but also picked up 12 Black Australorps at the local feed store yesterday. When we picked up...
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    Brooder lights

    I know there is probably a thread like this out their somewhere, but I couldn't find one that really answered the question. So, we're getting to the phase of building our chick brooder. Since we're getting a lot of chicks in a few weeks (plus ducks and turkeys about 8 weeks later), we're going...
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    Count down to babies!

    So, I'm a new BYC member and we are just starting up our farm in North Florida. We have some babies due in from McMurray Hatchery around February 9th, and they're a mix of Orpingtons and Wyandottes, of all colors. :celebrate We're getting ready to pressure wash the garage and set up a pen out...
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    Prefab Shed Coop

    I posted this question over on the chicken coop section, but figured that it may not be seen by a lot of turkey people. In a few weeks, we will be getting into poultry when we move into our new house! We are thinking of designing the turkey run/coop with a prefab 10x12ft shed in the middle of...
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    Prefab Shed Coop

    Hi! I haven't posted in this section before, and I had a question about a coop/run design and comfortable capacity. We are planning on building our ducks living quarters similar to the chickens, with a central shed "coop" and two 10x20ft runs on each side. I was wondering if this would be a...
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    Prefab Shed Capacity

    After a bit of reading through these threads, I've noticed that there is no real consensus on how many chickens can fit in a coop. Some threads say 4 sqft per bird, but others say that the larger the coop (and flock) the less sqft per bird is necessary. We are planning getting prefab sheds from...
  14. Meaghan

    Hello from North Florida!

    Hi! I'm Meaghan from the North Florida area. My SO Nathan and I just purchased our first home two months back and are closing on it in two weeks. We have been doing quite a bit of research into what to do with our new home's 5 acres, and we definitely would like to start our own flocks of...
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