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    feeding milk and whey

    i raise dairy goats and have an excess of milk and whey. i did some research here on this forum on past posts regarding feeding milk to chickens. seems like the milk should be clabbered. i do this sometimes by adding a little rennet or lemon juice. this seperates the milk into curds and...
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    constipation

    i posteed this in the turkey section, but since this section is more active, thought maybe some folks might know what's going on with my 4 week old poult: oh boy, this poult looks uncomfortable. it tries to poo, but nothing comes out, it's whole rear end is swollen and bulbous, and when i...
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    constipated poult

    oh boy, this poult looks uncomfortable. it tries to poo, but nothing comes out, it's whole rear end is swollen and bulbous, and when i squeeze it's butt, poop comes out like a big zit (really, ewww, sorry). there is no pasted vent, poop is not drying or covering the vent, this poult just can't...
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    chick with breathing problems

    i have a chick - 2 months old - who lives in a run outside with other chicks. i noticed today she is lethargic and something is wrong. i brought her in the house gave her food and water with vitamin/electrolyte mix and a little bit of tetracyclene. her breathing is labored and raspy. she...
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    Poult Leg Splint

    A few of my poults, now at age 3 weeks, have developed leg issues. I posted a few days ago and have changed their diet and I am feeding more protein and more vitamins. However they are not getting better with diet (but thankfully no one else has developed these leg issues). One of them really...
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    3 week old poults leg problems

    I have searched around the forum to read about poult leg problems - seems like a common issue, but my situation seems a little different. I have 12 poults they are now 3 weeks old and 3 of them, just in the last few days, have developed leg problems. it seems like a problem at the knee joint...
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    yellow fluid when gutting meat birds

    hello... i work at a small chicken processing plant that processes different people's chickens raised in our valley. occasionally we come across a batch of meat birds that doesn't look great. often the person reports a few of them have started dying a few days before they were brought in...
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    lice in my large flock...

    i have read the other posts regarding poultry lice, but i still have a few questions... i probably have a few more chickens than most people on this forum... about 100... and they free range all the time over about 3 acres. they go in at night into a few different movable coops. i am pretty...
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    crossed beak - why? prevention?

    i have a 6 month old wyandotte that has a pretty badly crossed beak. she can still eat, but it is bad. i just noticed that one of my 2 week old chicks is starting to develop the same problem, the beak is slightly off (top and bottom don't match up). this is how the wyandotte started, and...
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    pullet with swollen eye ***HELP***

    I have a 2 month old Welsummer chick. About 2 weeks ago I noticed the skin between her eye and her beak was very swollen. The next morning it went away and I assumed she was just stung by a bee or something. But I found her again tonight with the same bump on the same side. It is a very hard...
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    lethargic, slow, "depressed" chicken, please help!!!

    I have a beautiful white Ameracauna hen who has turned slow, lethargic, and depressed. I just noticed this yesterday, and last night she didn't want to go into the coop, so she slept with some broody hens in the special nesting place. She is about 5 months old and is just beginning to lay...
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