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    Week old gosling half the size of clutch mate

    I have a week old Buff/Toulouse cross gosling that is not growing like the other. Can I worm her? What type of dose should I use? I'm resisting the temptation to take her away and cage her in the house, but not sure if the stress would make it her worse. Not sure what else I can do. This is my...
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    White toes on goslings

    I have my first goslings. They are American Buff mamma and a Toulouse type pappa. There are 4 of them, dirty gray-ish brown backs and heads and lighter undersides, one might be a wee more brown than gray. The two littlest ones, one has the very tips of its feet white toes, the other has half of...
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    Buff goose has lump on head

    I'm worried. There is no sign of injury but my beautiful goose has a lump on her head above her right eye. You can barely see it in the picture, it's more noticeable in person. It is very hard and doesn't seem to be painful. She doesn't like her head messed with anyway but I gave it a couple...
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    Frizzled Serama feather care

    Help! My poor frizzled Seramas are having the world's worst "bad feather" day. My original pair was a smooth black mottled hen and a frizzled black mottled rooster. They are probably full brother and sister from eggs gathered from a pen that had a frizzled rooster (wheaton type) and smooth...
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    Swirled or spiral shell markings?

    My original Khaki hen started having thin shells at about 1 year old. I noticed that the shells have a swirl where it seems that the calcium is not evenly distributed. Her daughter's eggs are the same way. What causes this? I am out of ideas how to make her eggs thick again. I have tried a...
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    Antibiotic restrictions January 1, 2017 (USA)

    I just found out that in January all animal antibiotics will need a prescription. This is to restrict the commercial practice of keeping animals on them continuously. So this means the small holder would need a prescription as well when antibiotics are needed. We don't have a vet who will treat...
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    The It Bird - New Yorker Magazine 2009

    Really fun article, enjoy: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/28/the-it-bird Observations on the trend of having backyard poultry and one persons experiences (I was researching something else when I found this article)
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    Buff goose keeps biting husband

    My buff goose is still young, 6 mos old. I don't know if she is a guy or a gal. As what is normal for young waterfowl - it seems especially geese - she investigates everything with her bill. Several cords, bungees, and towels have suffered. Recently I have been enforcing a no-skin rule for...
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    Serama, Serama bantam cross chicks, 9/29/2016

    Serama, Serama Bantam cross chicks, hatched 9/29/2016 and a few since. All are black and white mottled. Some are frizzle. Serama dad, black & white mottled frizzle. Serama mom, black & white mottled (normal feathers) Bantam mom, red (normal feathers) Selling for pets, not resale. Will deliver...
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    Eggsasperating

    OY, I never thought it would come to this, but oy... First, there was Betsy. Betsy is a Khaki Campbell duck who has laid all but a dozen days since she started laying. That's about 285 days now. Recently Sera, Betsy and Mikey's daughter, started laying. Because of flock dynamics we had to...
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    Go, Spot, Go - Serama rooster (Oregon)

    Yet another rooster needs a new home... Spot is a March 2016, black & white mottled, frizzled Serama rooster who lives on the cool(er) southern Oregon coast. He is free to a good home within driving distance from where he is now or I will meet someone half way. I can even bring him with me to...
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    gosling drinking too much

    My 9 week old Toulouse gosling has gotten so she is drinking constantly but barely eating. She has been drinking so much that rarely are there solids in her poo - just clear water. Even my 4 month old goose seems worried. She has never been much about staying with the other goose and 3 ducks...
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    Lucky Chook

    I'm not sure where to post this. This hen is sailing around the world... and likes it... She's even got her own stories. http://voyagedyvinec.com Her name is Monique And they say I spoil my ducks...
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    Poor little thing (4 day old gosling help needed)

    A friend who raises poultry brought to me a day-old Toulouse gosling, hatched on Friday, 5/20. It had been pushed out of the nest, apparently while still in the egg, and then perhaps stepped on by geese or goats. She found it on its back and cold, she nearly mistook it for dead. At the time the...
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    What gosling is this?

    I got her from the feed store. They use Welp hatchery. They called her a saddle-back buff. I assume that meant an American Buff with a saddle pattern, but who knows. They sell Pomeranians (they had those too at the farm store - this one is far from the same) and they sell American Buff as well...
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    Sera, Fuzzy, and Berry grow up

    It's hard to believe that it has been 8 weeks now. Today Fuzzy and Berry started their "big boy" quacking, they have been pretty much silent until now. Sera has been using her "big girl" quack for probably 5 weeks. And using it, and using it, and using it. She sounds a lot like her namesake...
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    1 or 2 Khaki Campbell drakes - Southern Oregon coast

    To approved home close enough I can deliver to and see myself (and visit later) I'm crying to post this, but 3 drakes is 1 or 2 drakes too many (depending on who I keep) Who I am considering: 1 year old drake "Mikey", father of the others. He loves his hen Betsy and would protect her to the...
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    Young goose behavior questions

    A week ago I got a hatchling goose (4/30/16). I've not raised geese from babies so I wanted to ask about some behaviors I have observed. When I got home I set her on the floor and quietly moved to where I needed to go. Instead of running away she was instantly under my feet (unfortunately more...
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    4-day old Buff gosling not eating?

    I bought a 4-day old gosling. She follows me everywhere just like the ducklings I hatched did. She cries until I pick her up. When I reach down she hunkers down, stretches her neck out, and says "pee pee pee" very quietly. Is she hungry? How do I get her to eat? At 4 days in the feed store with...
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    Drake dominating young ducks (do they make duck muzzles?)

    Subtitle: Bad Mikey Chapt. 3 Ok, young ducks are 5 weeks old now, so I decided to experiment and introduce them to their parents without a fence in-between. Bad Mikey has been pacing the yard fence or the duck pen fence whenever I had put the young ones out but now that they have grown up a...
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