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    Duckling makes clicking noise when breathing

    Hello everyone. So two days ago I found a tiny duckling in one of my ducks nests there were a few ducklings dead and the Mum wasn’t on the nest, there was only one duckling alive and a little bit cold. I decided to take it inside out it under a heatlamp, give it food and water. Today I have...
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    Free ranging peafowl

    hi everyone Our family are thinking of getting peafowl and have around 2 acres fenced with chickens, ducks and alpacas free ranging in there. They get put away into a coop at night ( not the alpacas). Would the peacocks go inside the coop with them? Would they get along with ducks and chickens...
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    Blind sunken eyed chicken

    We have this 2 year old hen and her eyes have started sinking and she needs help getting back into the coop at night as I don’t think she can see. Should we take her to a vet and what is going on with her?
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    Ducklings on floating duck house

    Hi everyone, So I have a few questions about getting ducks to hatch their own eggs. It’s the start of spring here and my one of my silver appleyard ducks have started laying her fertile eggs in the corner of our floating duck house (they live on a dam). She’s made a bit of a nest and there are...
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    What does this mean?

    i have one week left on these chicken eggs before they hatch but found this strange brown dot in the side of one of the eggs. What does this mean? Should I throw it away? Here’s a pic.
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    Ducks and geese together?

    could you incubate duck eggs and goose eggs together and raise them together. What are the differences? Are geese aggressive or loud and would they keep foxes away? Would they get along as adults as they would shared the same dam? Thanks
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    Wild duck egg?!?!

    i found an egg on the side of our dam and decided (because we have domestic ducks and drakes on it) to incubate it and see what happens. During incubation i realised that not just our ducks hang around there, but also some Australian wood ducks. So there is a chance it could be their egg. Today...
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    What colouring does this rooster have?

    I bought this rooster from an auction of fertile eggs and these fertile eggs were listed as ‘fertile show quality bantam silkie eggs’. Is there a name for the type of colouration he has? And is he actually ‘show quality’? Thanks!!
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    How often do you need to feed lambs?

    Hi everyone. I’m thinking of raising an orphan lamb in a couple of months but still have some unanswered questions after doing some research. 1. Can you raise one orphan lamb by itself or is it better to raise it alongside another orphan lamb so it isn’t lonely? 2. How often do you need to...
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    Mini pigs and goats?

    hi everyone. We have a one acre paddock with three Australian mini pigs and we are thinking of getting two miniature goats and putting them in the same paddock as our mini pigs. There are a lot of mixed messages and views on this topic online and I was wondering if anyone keeps goats with their...
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    One doe with two weathers goats

    could you keep a doe with two weathers?? Thanks
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    Can Elizabeth ducks fly?

    I'm getting a pair of Elizabeth ducks soon and was wondering if they could fly and if they could if they would fly far away if I don't clip their wings? Thanks
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    Putting chicks under broody hen

    I have some chicks that hatched today and I want to put them under my broody hen. She has been broody for three days and this is her first time being broody. Do you think it will be OK to sneak these chicks under her tonight? And do you have any tips?
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    Can I help my chick hatch?

    It's been 25 hours since it pipped and I got this egg from a broody who abandoned her nest so it had been out from under a hen for a bit of yesterday. I have helped two other chicks out of their eggs before. Can I help it hatch?
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    Broody hen problem?

    Hi guys. I put five eggs under my broody hen and she has been sitting on them and I haven't caught her off them once .Tommorow is hatch day. I had her in a small coop in the big coop so when her chicks hatch she can look after them fenced off. When I came to check on her today she was waiting at...
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    What breed of duck is this?

    I was wondering if anyone Knows what breed of duck these two are? (one's a drake) I was thinking they look like silver appleyards or Elizabeth ducks?? Thanks (Sorry for the bad photo)
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    Make hole in chicken egg air cell?

    Hey guys. I incubated some chicken eggs and only one egg hasn't hatched. Yesterday was hatch day and I didn't think the egg was going to hatch so I didn't add anymore water and kept the egg just in case. So the humidity is lower now. I just candled it and saw there was a beak in the air cell...
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    Chicks eight hours in cold surviving?

    Hello everyone, We were away for a night and hired someone to look after our chooks (and pigs) and we told her not to take the eggs out from the broody hen when she collects the eggs... But she did and put them in a bowl in a tub in the rain. She collected the eggs this morning so it's been...
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    Aus importer hova-bator genesis?

    Hello everyone, I really want a hova-bator genesis incubator, but I can only find one Australian importer which are all sold out and are not getting any till the start of next year (brook field poultry supplies) . I would just buy it from overseas but the power cable thingys are wrong. Does...
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    HELP! New hova-bator incubator

    Hi everyone! I'm trying to choose a hova-bator incubator but I don't know what one to get. I want to incubate chicken, duck, quail and possibly goose eggs. These three are the ones I'm trying to choose between: Hova-Bator - 1622 Thermal air incubator Hova-Bator - 2365 Circulated air Hova-Bator...
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