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    How much should I be trying to get this crossbeak to eat daily? And can I train her to eat sideways?

    My little crossbeak is not in terrific shape, but she does seem to be getting some pep back. We started hand feeding her (syringe with very thin food/water/vitamins/kombucha mix) about a week ago and have gone from 1-2 feedings a day to 6 feedings yesterday. I just don't know if it's enough...
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    WORMS causing rasping breath, bloody diarrhea in chicks?

    I started a thread yesterday, but I discovered something new, so I'm starting over. Old thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chick-with-rasping-breath-rales-diarrhea-with-blood.1259694/ I had a chick with rasping breath that seemed to be made better when it came inside into the...
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    Chick with rasping breath (rales), diarrhea with blood

    I have a chick we just noticed is wheezing pretty significantly. I grabbed a box to bring her in, video for you all, and get her away from other chicks. I heard her give out some diarrhea, and when I looked in, I saw something bloody that I'm fairly certain was not in the box before. (Too bad I...
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    HELP!!!! Humidity all wrong!!!

    I’m not sure how this happened, but ive been aiming for 70-80% humidity in my incubator. The lowest it has gone is 66%. We are at Day 14, and air sacs are pitifully small. Is there any way to fix this? Take humidity WAAAAY down for a while? I’m desperately trying to preserve the genetics of a...
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    Need a good protector!

    We've had problems with foxes, opposums, and raccoons, and now air attacks. I found a massive amount of these feathers yesterday, and they don't belong to any of my birds, so I'm hoping a predator bird came down and got its tailfeathers kicked by one of my roos. There are signs that a Buff...
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    Murder(?) mystery in Michigan

    We’ve lost a bunch of our girls to foxes, but we’ve ben fencing and slowing that down pretty well by keeping the girls (and 3 roosters—2 Easter Eggers and a massive Black Jersey Giant mix) in their run until after noon. Everything was cool when I checked at 3:00 pm today, but I just went out...
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    WHO KILLED DAISY???? (Graphic photo)

    Last night was a NIGHTMARE! We've had poultry for 3 years, and with the exception of the occasional hawk flyby, we have NEVER ONCE had a problem with predators. Then last night I caught 2 opossums (opossi?) in the chicken run. Luckily, they had not yet gotten into the coop. It was right at...
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    Tailless Americauna from Townline Hatcheries?

    Here is our beloved Baby Dude. All his life, he has been missing those expected full, flowing tail feathers, and a few months ago I began to wonder if he could be tailless or rumpless. (I assume there is a difference, and I would think he’s tailless.) So I finally called Townline Hatcheries...
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    Developing a waiver for local businesses to donate “food scraps”

    Does anyone out there have a waiver that they use to approach local businesses to collect their food scraps? I have not seen a form yet in my online searching, but I did come across some verbiage from a discussion of food scrap recycling in Portland. Here is some of the language I found...
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    Eggs with tails???!!

    Two days in a row now I've had one of my adult ducks lay a freaky egg. The first one had a full-fledged tail, the second had the tail somewhat integrated onto the shell of the egg. We are going through a heat wave, but other than that, I know of no other stressors. My ducks range and have free...
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    PUNISHMENT idea for egg eaters

    I've got a problem. We have had a recent outbreak of egg eating. I love my girls, and I don't want them to end up in the stew pot. So, having a Ph.D. in Education with a solid background in psychology, I want to approach this scientifically. So when you're trying to shape behavior, there are...
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    ⠀ Fodder types--nutrition and practical suggestions

    I've been feeding my girls a mixture of something like 95-99% wheat seed fodder with a little bit of chia, flax, and sunflower added for variety. The wheat is easy to work with, and increasing the "superfood" chia and flax seeds is highly problematic--they are mucilaginous seeds that really make...
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    What's up with the feathers on my chicken's head?

    Can someone tell me what's going on with this chicken? She seems to have lost the feathers on her head, and I'm not sure if she is just molting ( we did have a very cold snap followed by a very warm period), or if someone has been picking on her in the flock. Any thoughts? The others have...
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    Black on comb--cold damage already??

    One of my 11 has some black on her comb. I'm attaching pictures. Is this cold damage? Or something else? We have had hard freezes here already.
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    Buff acting strangely: broody or hurt?

    I've got a Buff who has been sitting in the same nest box for at least 16 hours. I found her last evening when my roost count was off and I had to look in the nest boxes before closing up the coop. This morning, she was still there. I pet her a bit and she cooed. I got some rubber gloves on and...
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    "Dude" Looks Like a Lady

    We're new to backyard chickens, and we got a little flock of 10 girls plus one extra that always stood out as a little different, so we called it Dude. Since we got them in the mail, we figured the hatchery popped in a roo to keep the pullets warmer during shipping, something that we've...
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