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    Purple edging on roo's comb and green poop

    Hello Cletus, our 1 year old Welsummer Roo is not himself today, he is sitting in his run and resting his eyes, most unlike him. A week ago one morning I noticed his eye was watering, then I noticed his comb in the center, at the base was swollen, I immediately put him on tetracycline and did...
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    Respiratory Illness in Rooster, can I help him?

    Hello My favourite rooster is wheezing this evening. In the evening I put my roosters in our insulated garage in their very own crates, I immediately gave him Tetracycline added to water. This is our first year with chickens and our first year breeding chickens. In our coop we installed 2...
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    Sleepy Rooster

    I have an 8 month old Naked Necked rooster, he is not a purebred, but a mixed with the dominant naked gene. He has always been a strange little dude, he is quiet, doesn't bother the hens and spends most of his day on the roost sleeping, (but his crop was always full, and he has always been...
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    Unknown Illness in Chickens

    In September my friend purchased Plymouth Rocks from a breeder who is heavily involved in showing. She got 9 pullets and 1 rooster. The first week of having them home a neighbour thought he was being helpful and let himself into their coop and left around 4 battery hens in with her new birds...
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    Olive Egger Genetics

    Hello I would like to breed for Olive Easter Eggers. I have Purebred Black Ameraucanas, Blue Marans and Welsummers. I would like to cross my Ameraucana with my Marans and Wesummers. The Ameraucana has the dominant Blue egg gene, which i believe I can represent in the phenotype OO, if the brown...
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    Ameraucana breeding question

    Hi All My chicken obsession started with a Black Ameraucana rooster we got last winter. We got him an Easter Egger hen and a Leghorn hen for company. For fun this spring, we made a styrofoam cooler incubator and hatched a few of our hens' eggs. They are now 9 weeks old. Part of my learning...
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    Breeding Ameraucana question

    Hi all I started my chicken obsession with a Black Ameraucana rooster this past winter. We got him 2 hens, which I later found out we're Easter Eggers, not Ameraucanas. I learned that the Ameraucanas have blue slate legs, the Easter Egger we have has orange and black feathers and has yellow...
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    Help! I have a broody goose

    I need some advice from some geese knowledgable friends out there. We have a pet goose, she turned one in April. She is a lone goose and a family pet. She has been laying eggs since March and maybe 2 weeks ago she has started to want to be In her coop all the time. She has made a nest and...
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    Should I get another goose or ducks?

    We got 2 Embden goslings last spring as pets. We had no idea what sex they were and really did not know how that would matter anyway as this poultry business was completely new to us. The goslings grew into lovely pets. One was a bit aggressive towards our daughter. This goose's aggression...
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