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    Chicks not growing equally

    I have 2 frizzles that I bought the same day and at the same store. Theye were both a couple days old when I bought them. They are both a month old now. My tan one is beautiful looking full of feathers and bigger than the black one. The black one is actually bald in a few spots. She is...
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    breed? brown egg layer

    Hi everyone! Got this little girl from a neighbor. He said he had gotten a run of females. They are all brown egg layers. Three of them are jersey giants, two straight white ones, and this girl. I just cant place her breed? Any suggestions? Closest I came was maybe a partridge Wyandotte? Her...
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    whole flock has stopped eating

    It is now day 4, and not one of hens has eaten. Yesterday when I went out to feed, my neighbor stopped me and asked if I had stopped feeding the chickens veges. I was like , no? He said he gave them their weekly veges box and they had no interest in it. As a matter of fact the veges were still...
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    silkie eggs is there a trick?

    I have a silky rooster, silkie hens, 2 polish hens, & 2 silkie mix hens. I took 2 eggs from each hen. My silkie mix eggs, hatched. My polish eggs are a rocking & in lockdown. Not one of my silkie eggs have done a darn thing. So i dont think the rooster is the problem. He is the daddy & grand...
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    Hope this helps someone! green snot remedy?

    Recently I bought 6 silkie chicks. I get them home & find 3 are sick. By morning 2 were gone. Leaving me 4 chicks. By that afternoon I saw the one chick blowing green snot bubbles out her nose. She was very lethargic, & only drinking. She's now 7 weeks old and outside with the flock Now a...
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    can ducks change sexes?

    For close to a year now our 2 female runner ducks have given us 2 eggs a day. Then last week nly one a day. Then we saw them mating in the pool. Well went to use an egg the other day and it had a very obvious bulls eye! So we broke a few more and all have the bulls eye. And they went from just...
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    Where in phoenix can I find tricide powder?

    My hen has bumblefoot. I've been trying to treat it. I can't find the antibiotics or powder though in town. Thus far I have been pulling the "plugs" off and digging out the pus, follwed by a salt water soak, rinsed with hydrogen peroxide, finishing with a blue coat topper. I have her in a...
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    How do you know if a wing is broke?

    Our grandson was bending down looking at the babies when one decided to dart around him. He stepped back to avoid the baby & stepped on the outer part of her wing. She tries to pull it to her body but cant. I felt it & at first it felt broke. But now an hour later its pulled up to her side, but...
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    Has anyone used their basement?

    We moved out from Phoenix, to Indiana and so my girls are NOT used to the weather change. So as spoiled as they are on cold nights I bring in all my chickens & ducks. They all get kenneled up with a partner and are put in the kitchen. So yes on a cold night if you come to my home you have to...
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    2 chickens AND 2 ducks

    We have two chocolate runners, (drake & female) along with one leghorn & one RIR hen. We need to find homes for immediately! Family crisis forces us to get rid of them unfortunately. They are all 4 housed together and were all hatched & raised together. They are FREE!!! We are located in...
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    where would I post ??

    My husband & I are needing to rehome our 2 chickens & 2 ducks and don't want money for them. I don't want to put them in the auctions since i'm not charging anything for them? where would be a good place to post them? We need to move & can't take them.!!!
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    My duck dances for me when asked! video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75EYLZLY5Co&feature=player_profilepage The question is why does he do this dance though? Little background on Bug, he was raised in the house with us. He is the only one out of like 30 eggs that made it. He was recently put outside with the female duck. He...
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    Why are my chicken eggs still fertile?

    We HAD a rooster and hens. Then two months ago we got rid of our rooster in the process of getting ready to move. Now we've moved, and have been without a rooster for over 2 months. I had not been feeding our hens layer feed because of the whole move and getting settled in thing. I started...
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    We did it! We moved with our flock!

    Yes we did! We just got done moving 1700 miles with 2 chickens, 2 ducks, a squirell, 3 dogs, 1 cat and a rabbit! We have a Suburban so what we did was fold down half of the first back seat. On the far rear seat we put the chickens in a kennel, with a kennel of ducks on top, then next to them...
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    To keep my eggs from rolling around

    To keep my eggs from rolling around in the incubator I use toilet paper & paper towel rolls. I take the cardboard centers and using scissors cut them into 1/2 inch thick little rings. I put the in the incy & they keep the eggs from rolling. Also when it comes to turning them quick & easy In...
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    what breed of rooster?

    Any ideas? When we first got him most of his feathers were missing. At first I was told he's a RIR, but then when his feathers grew back in they are green & purple?
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    so have a pip to zip question

    If a chick internally pips on say saturday,, but hasn't hatched by tuesday would you help? I hear a lot of people say they can hear them chirping when they've internally pipped, but what if you hear them chirping before even the lockdown? My ducks will sometimes start peeping a day or two...
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    humidity tip!

    This is my second year now of hatching. I see a lot of people struggling with humidity. I don't struggle at all! I use an old washcloth fold it in half & then again, placing it right under one of the red plugs. Then as I need I just add a little warm water to the cloth. I put mine in this...
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    Automatic feeder, waterer, and nifty way to drain your duck pool!

    Ok we'll start with our automatic waterer! It can supply water to up to 65 birds with no problems. This is the inside of the waterer. We took a 5 gallon bucket, cut 3 inch holes all the way around about 2 inches from the bottom. Then we put an automatic float in it, and hooked it up to a...
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    nine out of ten eggs hatched! chocolate runners

    Our hatch day is over and the final results are in! 9 out of 10 eggs! Even had one surprise us! They were all hatched and dried so we started removing from the incy and throwing out shells. I picked up the two eggs that hadn't done anything but one felt really light. I started lookin at...
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