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    Little pig on the loose... Help?

    Someone came here this morning to drop of our two new pigs. Well, one of them got loose. (not our fault in any way) Our house is close to a road. Its about as close to a highway as a road can get without having two lanes... lots of speeding and corners. We have tried everything to get this pig...
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    Tiny Goose Egg

    I went to go check my lavender american goose's nest today, and I found a tiny egg. They have been laying for a few weeks now, and all the eggs have been good-sized. This egg is smaller than my OEGB chicken's eggs, and round, like a ball. This ever happen to you? Both the geese are laying every...
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    What can I do? One of my call ducks taken by a hawk, other is lonely

    The ducks are penned up all the time, but today I was playing with the goats, and since the ducks were less then 20 feet away, I thought I would let them out for a while to play in the snow. Like, three seconds after I let them out, Before I could do anything about it, a hawk swoops down and...
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    Ermine that lives under my coop!

    I new I had something under there. There were always fresh tunnels in the ground and snow. It was just eating eggs... I didn't know what it was. But it has moved on to my chickens, I need to get rid of it somehow... I have seen it a few times now. Its an ermine for sure. I wish it would stick...
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    Sebastopol Babies!

    You always get more then you come for. One silkie roo= that silkie, four baby geese, three big geese and ALMOST some ducks... Well, some of the coolest and strangest places I have been to was to go pick up animals. Anyway, I got four sebastopol babies. They are two days old... they follow...
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    Lavender American Geese?

    Well... I got a trio of geese. They are almost a year old, and they are lavender american geese. Any of you have them? Right now they are getting settled in, but they seem friendly. Im a new goose owner, anything I should know? I was told by the former owner to feed them game bird food, if this...
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    How to tell chicken eggs from duck eggs?

    My call duck pair is living in the chicken coop with both small, large and middle sized chickens. Yesterday, my duck was sitting on an egg in the corner of the coop, the silkie chickens lay there also. How do you tell? It looked like a normal egg, white with a little tint
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    My Emus Got Out! - I learn the hard way how to catch emus-

    Before I start, I will tell you that all of my emus are safely back in the pen. This happened this fall. I thought it may be good to know, and interesting to read. We had taken apart some of the fence to take one of the emus to the vet (They would not fit though the gate) and screwed the fence...
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    Should I or am I Out of My Mind -to get a horse-

    Hello, there seems to be tons of horse people on here, so I thought I would post this to see what people think of me getting a horse. We are moving this spring to a five acre "horse property". (huge barn, hundreds or miles of trials!) and we are making a perimeter fence for our three emus...
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    The Chicken Bags are Here!

    The chicken bags are here! The one in the pics is the one for sale. I have matching diapers of all sizes in both colors of the bag ready to ship. I also have another bag that, if you wanted, I could make the diapers for. PM for pics of the other bag. As some of you know, these are hand-made...
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    Fancy Chicken Diapers

    Beautiful handmade Batik chicken diapers, fully lined with water resistant sports nylon. We stock them in 3 sizes, but can custom make for larger birds. Soft, stretchy straps make for a comfortable fit for many individual shape variations. A Velcro clasp allows for easy on and off. Machine...
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    Fancy Chicken Diapers

    Beautiful handmade Batik chicken diapers, fully lined with water resistant sports nylon. We stock them in 3 sizes, but can custom make for larger birds. Soft, stretchy straps make for a comfortable fit for many individual shape variations. A Velcro clasp allows for easy on and off. Machine...
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    Chicken carrying bags- any interest?

    Hello, I was wondering if there was any interest in these bags. They are (or will be) made for a pair of bantams or one standard chicken. They come with one or two matching diapers, made custom to size. They will be coming in many different colors. They are completely washable, both the bag...
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    Getting ducks in the spring- lots of ??s

    We have had chickens for the last two years, and as I was going over what I should have on the farm.. well, ducks came to mind. Lots of peaple say ducks are much better than chickens. I have always stood up for my clucking friends but I have never met a domestic duck- so I cant compare. I have a...
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    Help!

    We "rescued" two free pigeons at our local chicken swap, and they have been living with our chickens for a month or so. Well, I was gone with family this week, and I had someone looking after my critters. They told me tonight that they were worried about one of the pigeons . "It just sits in the...
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    Showing my chickens

    I thought it would be fun if I enterd some of my birds at the local fair, so I did. I read about it on here and other places, and what I had thought it would be was NOT what it was. At all! From what I read, I would bath my best fullest featherd birds that met the standerd after months of...
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    Christmas Emus!

    I wanted to post some christmas pics of my emu, Burnu. Emus LOVE shiny bright things. Burnu like red the most. All the emus! Yes, most of the pics were inside. We walked him on a leash with a harness. He loves walks! Kids can come over and pet him, sit on him, hug him. He dose not...
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    Spayed Legs

    As some of you heard, Kyeema, my female emu, has spayed legs. I was doing some reading on it... and its not looking good for my baby. She stopped growing. Burnu, our male, is much bigger now. She cant get in the shelter to the food that well, so we have been tossing food to her on the ground...
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    Flight the Sumatra

    I had to post some pics of my show-winner, Flight, a blue sumatra hen. She was raised by Mom Buff- a broody BO. She lives up to her name to, she will NOT sleep in the coop, insted FLIES into huge tall pine trees. I had to take the once in a lifetime chance to take pics today. (no person could...
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    Barnyard mix, what IS he?!

    We have two roosters, an EE and a RIR.. and then we have RIR hens, EE hens, and BO hens. Somehow, a brood hatched out what looks like a meat bird- EE mix... When he was a chick he was yellow, with BRIGHT yellow feet, and he looked like a meat bird. But with muffs. He did hatch out of a green...
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