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    Rescue babies

    My neighbor just found two chicks last night by her back gate so she brought them to me this morning since I'm the only one in the neighborhood who has chickens. Anyone have any idea what breed? Maybe ISA?
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    Egg bound chicken/chicken Death (graphic pics)

    I had a year old crested cream legbar that became eggbound. I tried giving calcium, lubing her vent, and manual removal but she sadly passed away. I decided to do a necropsy myself to see how severe the issue was because I could definitely feel the egg but couldn't ever see it at her vent...
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    Sapphire Gems

    So I impulsively purchased 4 Sapphire Gem chicks from TSC. I generally don't go to TSC for chicks but these were $.50 each and I couldn't resist. They were supposed to all be pullets and had puller markings. But now that I'm 4 weeks in, I see 2 have larger combs than the other two. But I'm...
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    Black Copper Maran hatched out white

    So I had some black and blue copper maran eggs that set under some broody hens. I had 6 hatch out, 2 black, 3 blue, and one that was supposed to be black hatched out white! The person I got them from only had black and blue, there were no white birds in her flock. Is this normal? She doesn't...
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    Should I help?

    I have a hen sitting on eggs and so far I've had 3 chicks and 1 duck hatch out and they are great but I've got another egg that has pipped and the chick has popped off about half of the shell but the membrane is still intact except for the tiny hole that the chick poked through initially. The...
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    Hen not laying-

    So all of my other hens have started laying but not this one. Breed: Cream Legbar Hatched: 08/11/17 Sex- Female Feed: Fermented and Non fermented Purina Flock Raiser, free range access to grass, weeds and bugs, free access to oyster shell, occasional corn, BOSS, whole wheat, and meal worms...
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    Flock Block - When out of town

    So I'm planning on going out of town for the holidays and I have someone who can check on the chickens but they will have to be confined to the chicken yard and no foraging so I wanted to make sure they have something to supplement them since they normally free range every day. Can I use a...
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    Silkie chickens in PNW

    I really want a silkie chicken. But I live in the Pacific Northwest where it's rainy 9 months of the year and muddy for 10 months. If I got a silkie would it just drown from being in the rain all of the time? I have a coop and a covered area but my chickens free range in a field and I'm worried...
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    Feral Ducks

    So for the past month and a half I've had some feral ducks that have been coming into my flock. They free range in the field across the street and the ferals have figured out that there are girls and food there. They hang out with my flock during the day and then leave at night. Of course I've...
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    Pekin Duck- Illness? Injury?

    Jumbo Pekin 1 yr old female. Started getting brown spots on bill abd what looked like scabs. Put iodine on it but there didn't seem to be any injury. 3 days ago developed scabs on head and back of neck but thought my drakes were just mating her too much so I separated her from the drakes...
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    Catahoula Peeing Inside

    Probably a long shot but I wondered if anyone might have a suggestion on a problem I'm having. I have a 4 year old, intact, male Catahoula Leopard Dog that has started marking in the house when I'm gone. Everyone's first response has been to neuter him but he's NALC registered and I don't...
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    Bumblefoot

    Ok so I've got something going on but I don't know what. Every single duck I have has bumblefoot sores on their feet. So far only one is really seriously infected and I had to cut her foot open and pulled out a huge wad of cheesy pus material. She's in the house being treated individually since...
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    Gapeworm/Respiratory Infection?

    So one of my Cayugas got sick. I kept hearing a strange whistling quack at night but I couldn't figure out who it was until Thursday I went out early and noticed my cayuga girl kind of gasping for air. At first I thought she was trying to lay an egg but actually she was gasping for air. I...
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    Eggs, no shell, Calcium Issues?

    So my ducks are laying. YAY. Sad thing is that I'm losing about 3 eggs a day because someone is laying shell-less eggs. The shelled layers lay theirs in the morning around 6 or 7am. The Shell-less layers are laying theirs around 6-7pm. I think I know who might be one of the shell-less...
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    Eggs, Duck or Goose?

    Ok, so the quackers have started laying but I'm wondering if my goose is laying or if I am just getting REALLY large duck eggs. These are some of the eggs I've gathered over the past week. So, goose eggs or just large duck eggs?
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    Laying Eggs

    So I have 12 ducks and an embden goose. The ducks are 18 weeks old and the goose is 15 weeks old. I've started getting eggs from the ducks but I wasn't really expecting the goose to lay this year. I thought they were seasonal layers but on Monday I had a really large egg in the pen that I can...
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    First Egg!

    So my ducklings were hatched 3/16/15 and I have 9 females and 1 male out of that group. Today I found my first egg! I am not sure who laid it but I do know it wasn't the Cayuga because the egg was small and white. This is almost a month earlier than I was expecting.
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    too thin?

    Ducks are about 12-13 weeks old now. I have 10 ducks and a goose. They free range in the yard and in the neighbor's field all day and I give them around 4-7 lbs of Purina Flock Raiser a day. Sometimes they empty the bowl, sometimes not. It just depends on how many slugs they ate that day. Still...
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    Orphans

    So this morning I got up to let my ducks out because they were freaking out and once out they ran over to the front fence and were quacking and running back and forth. So I walked over to see what their issue was and I hear peeping from the ditch. My ditch is filled with irises so I couldn't...
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    Loud Mouth Swedish

    So I have 10 ducks and a goose. 1 black Swedish(f) - Bea Bea 1 Blue Swedish(f)- Skye 2 Cayuga (f)- Clover and Dandelion 2 Welsh Harlequin (f) (m)- Sweat Pea and Whisper 3 Golden Layers (f) - Buttercup, Ivy and Sunshine 1 Pekin (f) -Jack Jack Embden Goose (f)- Piper My swedish ducks are the...
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