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    BLIND HEN! How do i feed her?

    My not-quite year old isa brown chicken seems to have some eyes injuries of some kind. Not sure what happened but the left eye is shut and swollen-ish. I've been getting her to drink some water but not any food. I read somewhere that yogurt can be given to chickens as a sort of "soft...
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    excessively enlarged gizzard on 12 week old ISA

    i recently mixed my 12 week old chicks (ISA browns, buff orpingtons and americanas) with my adult hens/pekin ducks. Everything was going well, they came back into the coop at night, everyone was eating well until i noticed a few days ago one ISA brown was having trouble getting places that...
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    Pekins and earthworms

    my three month old ducks absolutely love eating earthworms
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    Duck bill trouble

    My ducks appear to be developing scab-like brown spots on their bills and it cant be washed off. They weren't there on Monday but showed up somewhere in between then and now (Thursday)
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    Duckling legs

    I have some 3-4 week old ducklings and i just noticed that one keeps walking on her own feet, has trouble walking forward, has knotted-looking knees, and bowed legs. I've heard I'm supposed to tape her legs together, but this is my first time with ducklings and I don't know how to do it. Also, I...
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    Cold

    I am literally so tired of the cold weather! :he I just can't wait for summer! :bunI am so ready to start getting my garden established and my chickens are getting restless without any bugs and weeds to root around in.
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    Isa Browns are laying!

    My beautiful Isa Browns are finally laying! :celebrateThe eggs are a bit smaller than my "mutts" in the flock but I don't mind, they are still young. I have dark, almost chestnut, small brown eggs. They are such a beautiful brown, I cant get over it! My babies are such funny birds, I went to...
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    New waterer design

    Hey! So in a few days my family is going camping and our twenty five chickens need a new waterer. And in the corner of our coop we had a nipple bucket hanging. But the nipples got clogged and unusable. So my dad and i cleaned the one and made two new nipple buckets and instead of hanging them...
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    identifying chicks.

    Hello! Just today, we purchased ourselves some ISA brown chicks, 25. I was thinking of ways to ID them. They all are yellow/gold and look EXACTLY alike. I've used zip ties before but in my experience, it wasn't fantastic. I was thinking of dotting them on the head with some temporary dye or...
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    what breed

    I'm looking to get a few straight run ducks. Really hoping for good layers. But need to be pretty cheap. You guys got any suggestions? I've done my share of dappling around in khaki campbells but I'm not liking the price all to much.
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    Chickens + Ducks =??

    If i were to have a duck mixed with my free range chicken flock, would it be ok? Does it need to be more than one duck? Also, do they need swim water during the winter when i keep them inside? Should they be inside with the chickens during the winter?
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    Egg issues/Calcium issues??

    For a while, my birds wouldn't lay but they've kicked up again. Yesterday, i pulled a soft, jello-y/paper-y shelled egg out of the nest box. I assume lack of calcium or new layer. But we also have one bird who seemed VERY interested with the eggs as i collected them. She was the one who started...
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    Bored Birds

    Hey all, Having problems with bored chickens in the winter picking on each other? I know I do!:barnieMy ladies seem to think it's so much fun to pull feathers out of each others neck and run around with it in their beak. They play a game, the goal is to get as many feathers and then run from...
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    OHIOANS UNITE

    Northeast Ohio chick.
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    ReFlocking

    Butchering all our birds and ReFlocking in the spring. Our current flock is just a bunch of mutts. Any good breeds? Leghorn? Orpington? Need cold hardy, and predator savvy.
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    injury/gashes

    Hey i have a chicken (unsexed) that hatched this past june. He (or she) was doing fine until two days ago, i noticed he/she had a terrible limp. My dad and i brought him/her to our basement and gave hhim/her food and water in his/her enclosure. I examined his left leg. I noticed he had green...
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    new hen

    Hey i'm new here. I've had chickens for about 3 winters and finally decided to get byc account :)
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