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    Pheasant chick peeping NON STOP

    My fiance brought home 6 chicks from the feed store tonight. I placed them in my brooder with a heat lamp, water and food. 5 of them are content. 1 of them is just yelling non stop, quite loud. He quiets down when I watch him. Is he possibly calling for me?? He doesn't have any signs of...
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    Questions about penning rooster with hen for pure breed eggs.

    I have a beautiful avery connected to my chicken coop that we decided would be perfect for breeding our hens. My fiance is putting up walls to create numerous pens within the avery. My question is...how long do I keep the rooster and hen together before i can expect pure breed eggs? I have...
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    Olive Egger Rooster - useful or useless??

    I don't really know where to post this.... I have one BEAUTIFUL olive egger roo and I'm not sure if I can breed him with any hen for a fun olive egg laying chicken, or will they be just brown egg laying chickens. I do understand that to get an olive egger you must cross a copper marans roo...
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    Good worm thread?

    I noticed awhile ago that a few of my chickens had dirty feathers around their vent and sloppy liquid poos. Then while I was cleaning the coop this morning, there was a poo on the roost with long clearish worms in it (dead). What the heck!? What kind are these (without pics, sorry). Or is...
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    Blue Orpingtons....or Blue Jersey Giants?!

    Hello, Can someone please post a pic of their adult or sub adult blue orpington. I bought some from a local breeder whom also gave me a blue orpington rooster who wasn't 'doing the deed'. They just keep growing and growing and growing! They are giants compared to my buff orpingtons, but maybe...
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    Too hot in hen house for eggs to hatch?

    Is it possible that it may be too hot for the chicks to develop under mama? I have two broodies, both barred rocks, 17 eggs between the two of them. Should of seen hatching yesterday and today. Aaaaand nothing... I know those eggs are fertile. They have been setting very nicely. I live in...
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    Candling Eggs

    How important is it to candle a broody mama's eggs? Today is Day 10, and I read a really great article on letting the hens do all the work. But the article insisted on candling on day(night) 10 and removing the 'dead' eggs. The reason of my concern is that early on she had 10 eggs, now 9...
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    Sourdough starter

    Hello, I have a whole wheat sourdough starter that has gotten a bit out of control. We need to scale it down and throw a very large qt. out. Its just water and whole wheat flour thats fermented. Can my flock have at it? Thanks!
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    Mother's Day broody!! <~~~ first timer

    My oldest barred rock, Lady, decided to go broody today (along with a very young BO whom I will have to break out of the broodiness). I left four eggs under her tonight when she was puffed out over them and being irrational. Tomorrow I plan to mark them and keep a reasonable number under her...
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    Chick having problems pooing...

    I have a blue orpington chick who is now 1 and a half weeks old. I bought her from a private breeder. The next day after I brought her home she was screaming and pushing really hard. I assumed she was constipated? Maybe from changing locations and became dehydrated. So i cleaned her up, put...
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    HELP Chick cant Poop!?

    Shes 'poo bound' and pushing soooo hard. She looks like shes in so much pain She is a blue orprington and is 3 days old. I put some lubricant on her vent, I also put her behind in warm water to relax her muscles. She didn't mind it, but it didnt help. Shes crying and I dont know what to do!
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    Dropping eggs on ground...

    So it seems to me that some of my girls have developed a new bad habit. Lately everyday I'm finding a random egg in the dirt, or in a poo pile under the roost or even in a favorite dust bath area. Its like at least two of my girls if not more are laying while roosting or dropping eggs while...
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    Fused nostrils?

    I have a golden laced wyandotte pullet that seemed like she was traveling backwords on the evolutionary train. Her skin directly below her eyes puffs in and out as if she had air sacs in her face. I thought maybe she was missing a plate in her skull somewhere but looking closer I can see that...
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    Lice...now?!

    I live in southern idaho. We've had a freezing cold winter. The ground is frozen as I type. But we discovered a few of my hens and 2 of my roosters are just INFESTED with lice eggs. I feel disgusted!! I'm usually on top of situations like this, I just didn't expect a bug problem in the...
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    Marans and barred rocks. Pics added.

    Hi all, I bought the rainbow package from mcmurray and the pullets are 10 weeks old. I have quite a few barred rocks and then one quite petite pullet with slightly different markings that I had originally thought was a barred rock. Her head is dark dark gray along with her tail feathers. Her...
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    Mice!

    How in the heck can I deal with these pests??? They are taking over my farm. My husband set bar bait in places where my chickens can not get to it but of course one of my fav hens must have found a poisened mouse and ate it up. Now I'm sure I won't have her much longer....I don't have food out...
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    Rainbow package from McMurry.

    Anyone else order this package for this mornings delivery?? I'm so excited to try and figure out what these girls are. So far I can tell Barred Rocks....Im not very good at this!
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    What happened to her?? :...(

    This morning when I went out to open the coop and feed, one my my gold sex links was standing in the corner very still, closing her eyes. I walked over to her and scooped her up and she didnt move. It was like she was shocked and frozen? So I set her in a nest box and tried to feed her and of...
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    Pullet making weezing noises...

    She seems happy, active, eating tomatoes out of my garden... But she's breathing heavy and its making a rough sort of weezing noise. Like when my fiance snores at night. I inspected her nostrils up close and they don't look plugged. I've dealt with that before. I looked down her throat and...
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    EMERGENCY~ New turkey owner and prolapse

    I own lots and lots of chickies. I neighbor sold us "hens" that all turned out to be roos, so he traded them back for a turkey hen. This was only two days ago. I've never owned a turkey!! I'm assuming the stress of the move caused this but as of this morning she has an apple sized thing...
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