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    Turkey Ivomec Dose

    I've been dealing with a sick-ish turkey (it's been hard to pin down exactly what's wrong. I dosed him Aug 21st with 0.5cc Ivomec 1% on the back of his neck. Today, his head started turning, so it IS black-head. I want to give him another doze of 1% orally but can't seem to find a dosage...
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    Paralysis & Death

    Okay this has been going on for a few weeks so I'll try to cover everything. Late July bought some silkies at auction, QTed 2 weeks, seemed very healthy so placed them into the coop in our chick area (which is separated from other chickens by fencing) b/c I tried them with the main group & they...
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    Dead Hen

    Lost of my favourite hen this morning, which really sucks. She was 7/8 months old, seemed perfectly healthy except I noticed last night her comb had flopped over. Didn't seem like a big deal as it was quite long. Other then that I didn't notice ANY other symptoms but I've been sick all week so...
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    What killed our chick?

    I've got photos I'll post after I'm done feeding, but I found one of our 6 week old chicks dead in the coop. He's got a lot of injuries to his head, very red & missing feathers, as well as several small 'bite' marks to his left leg and it looks like whatever it was bit through that leg at the...
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    Can you feel a stuck egg? or is it something else?

    ETA: UPDATE, she's fine. I've got a red star of undetermined age, probably closer to old then not. She's either is molting or is about too (lots of lost feathers) I'm not sure if she is one of the girls laying or not. (we got a big group of older chickens from a friend in the last few...
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    Muscovy Egg Weights

    Has anyone recorded their Muscovy egg weights over time? We just got our first duck egg, it's a whole whopping 57g (large chicken egg)
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    Molting in Red Stars

    Sorry for being a little obscure, but I'm hoping someone knows what I'm talking about. We just got a flock of red & black stars, the red stars look terrible they're molting so badly . I seem to remember reading somewhere that red stars, or one of their foundation breeds, molt a little...
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    Down

    What the best duck/goose breeds for collecting down from?
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    Chick Falling Over

    I have a little chick who hatched 2 days ago, with his yolk sack still outside his body. He had a sibling hatch with the same problem, who DNS. I've brought him in the house as he wasn't do well at all with mom (took forever, and he wouldn't dry, until I brought him in the house). Along with...
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    So you think you can sex Muscovy?

    Which of these ducks are boys? Here's a hint: There are 3 of them. They are all the same age and 3 of them are from the same hatch. I am quite positive as I just saw mating behaviour from the not-so-much-a-girl. I give up ever trying to sex muscovy...
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    Chicken nest box size (w chicks)

    I have out chicken & her (former) eggs in a dog crate to keep the other chickens away from her, the eggs started hatching 2 days ago. This morning I found a dead chick, looks like he ran out between the bars of the dog kennel (he was hatched overnight so there could have been something wrong...
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    Muscovy Noises.

    Lately every time I crouch down near him my largest Muscovy boy comes over waggling his tail, stretching his neck and now he's making this strange sort of thumping noise. Is he being aggressive? Looking for food? Or putting the moves on me? They are tame, but not tamed, I don't think he's...
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    New Flock

    Can anyone please help me I.D. my new flock? It's a bit of a long story, but I picked them up from a fellow keeper going through some personal challenges so I was just given the mixed flock she's had. I think he's a standard Araucana/Ameraucana rooster, can any give me a description for his...
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    Removing the Roo

    We've got a 4/5 month old Dom(?) rooster we'd like to keep, but he's removing feathers from the backs of the turkeys now that I took away his hens (thought the turkeys could stand up for themselves, not so much!). Can anyone show me your single Roo houses? I'm not sure what we want to do...
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    Are these Layers or Meat?

    I think someone messed up... How do you tell the difference between a cornishX and a "commercial egg layer" breed (hatchery site doesn't say what), other then at 5 weeks they are 700gs? Or is that pretty definitive... They are our first meat birds, and we're new chicken keepers. They have been...
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    Angel wings/growth spurt?

    My girl is around 7-8 weeks now, her flight feathers are just coming in on the edge of her wings & her wings are starting to really stick out (compared with her brothers); is this normal at her age? or do I need to start worrying about angel wings?
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    Pond clean up

    We've got a "naturalized" pond near the chicken coop (where the chicks are staying) that we'd like to use for our ducks when they get a little older. It's really just a 4' wide dirty hole in the ground that hold water because the land drains that way. There are reeds, bugs & frogs. What...
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    Chicken Nest?

    Henny got mixed up yesterday and sat on the wrong eggs. I'd like to move her to her own little enclosure in the coop, what do I give her to nest in? Can her egg (yes, only 1) go on the floor? She's been kicking all the shavings out of her nest box (raised) I think because of the heat so I'm...
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    Then there was 1

    Henny was given 4 eggs, and after tonight she's down to one. #1 disappeared #2 I found cracked today (barf!) #3 candled infertile #4 despite being abandoned for hours today (glad it was warm out!) so she could go sit on her girlfriend's infertile eggs instead (well, there was no nasty broken...
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    Wild coloured Muskovy?

    Anyone have pictures? My chicks are... I want to say around 6 weeks now? They are starting to molt into their adult feathers, and surprisingly they all seem to be wild-coloured! (I thought they were going to be white) Both my yellow/brown and my all brown have some lovely blue/green iridescent...
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