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    Salutations

    Hi all We are a small family farm of chickens, ducks, rabbits and children. We regularily sell hatching eggs, chicks, pullets and roosters; pet and meat rabbits; duck meat, Muscovy ducklings, and duck eggs. I also work outside the home. We had coturnix quails for a little while but want a new...
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    Duck problem

    Hi all! This is my first year in ducks, i have a muscovy trio in a small pond eating duck pellets and one of my ducks was off and on broody and then the day before yesterday I found her half in half out of her hutch, i put her in for bed, assuming she was broody again, and she stayed in all the...
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    Chick looking up when standing

    Hi all Just hatched a batch and the last one egg took two days to hatch, an shes able to squat stand but she starts looking up and up an then falls on her back and cant get up. I think maybe its wry neck but I've read chicken develop it when they are older. Can they be born with it? I got...
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    Egg colour question

    I have booted bantam cochin frizzle what colour will her eggs be? Is this decided by frizzle gene or cochin gene?
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    Hens or roosters. Also guess breed?

    They are 12 weeks old
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    Flies living in wattles?

    Hi all I have a bcm rooster who is indoors being treated for a neck injury, i notice he has white fruit flies crawling on his wattles, seems only there. I check his vent and all other feathers and he seems only wattles. They fly and fly onto my arms when i hold him. I cannot find any information...
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    Paralyzed by no crow collar?

    Hi all! I have a no crow collar that i used with success for my Chantecler rooster, he stopped crowing entirely. I tried it on his brother and it was good for two days and then he got a crick in his neck, he is stooped over from the shoulders down. His head is by the ground and he can eat but we...
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    Chicken wheelchair or prosthetic?

    Hi all I have 10 week old naked neck Mo, got from another farm a few hours from here. Mo is always a noisy chick, cried pee pee until you pick her up and then she happy. She has been pet chicken on the sundeck with my daughters chicken. We got her at two weeks and she grew a bit and then stopped...
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    Hen with dime sized hole pecked in back

    My other hens did this, i separate her, how do i heal her?
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    Eggs with white rings

    Hi there One of my hens will lay eggs like this a few times a week. What causes it? Shes a year and a half and a black copper marans.
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    Feather picked hens

    Hi all I have 9 black copper Marans hens that I've rescued and they are severely feather and head picked, its been about 8 weeks and two of the hens are still bald as babies! Pin feathers will start growing and then they will be gone the next day! They free range in an orchard all day so they...
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    Mother hen depressed to death overnight?

    Hi all I had two hens (a black copper maran and a buff orp) in separate broody cages with their chicks on a deck where they could see each other and talk to each other and yeaterday we tried to move them both into a big run together to give them more space. I expected the moms to have a go to...
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    Silver salmon maran x black copper maran

    Hi Would the resulting chucks be feather legged? What colours could i expect?
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    Sexing 6 week Partridge Chantecler chicks

    Hi all I have a half dozen Chauncy chicks and thought I had four hens and two roos, due to colouring. It seems as if one of the 'hens' is turning red on the back and one of the 'roos' is not... I thought red meant roo for this breed so Im hoping for second opinions, as this is my first time with...
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    Strange feather tips

    Hi all :) Im in the habit of rescuing chickens from neglectful or abusive homes and have recently been donated two english buff orpington hens, and was told they had scaly leg. I dont see any signs of scaly leg, although the hens they were housed with definitely had it, these two were broody...
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