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    Homemade feed issue

    Hello! So for the past years i've been making my own feed. I did these proportions, 36% wheat, 32% barley, 22% field peas, 7% sunflower seeds, then added calcium carbonate and meat-meal with a protein content of 60% to adjust. Issue is, this year, field peas have failed, so there aren't any...
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    marek infection?

    6 out 8 of my chick got sick. they have like 2-3 weeks. Had, the word. have killed them, they were feeling very, very ill. here's a video. of the two left, one is percetly fine, the other looks like its not 100% but i left him, or the one would cry. Does it look like marek to you? thanks
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    change diet for recently aquired rabbits

    Hello there. I wanted to get into rabbitry, and bought 1 buck (flemish giant) and 2 does, californian pure breed. 7 months and 5 months respectively. The breeder only feed these animals grains. Mostly oats, barley and sunflowers. I do know that is not the diet of rabbits. I brought them home...
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    meat bird hatching eggs + rooster issue

    Hello there. I am trying to get about 20-25 chickens for meat. I cannot find any fertile eggs, baby chicks, or young chickens. stores only have these starting in february. this is not feasible for us, as after 4-5 months it's gonna be way too warm to process them. I was looking online, and did...
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    slimming down pet hen

    Hello. My pet hen (8 month old SA61A sasso hybrid) is over weight. I love her so much, but apparently i did not love her enough to not stop myself from making her always "happy". Every evening she comes indoors with me, she comes in my lap and as she made me the angry face when i ate bisquits I...
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    impacted / pendolous crop.

    Hello. One of my young hens has an impacted crop. I have been keeping her indoors in my shower for a week now. Her crop became huge. I suspect she either ate plastic string, or straw. she is eating very very little, in a week her crop only shrunk by half. I already tried some olive oil, but no...
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    Limping young hen

    hello, one of my young hens, is limping. they are sasso chickens, kabir/mixed. they are 7 months old now. all the hens are fine, this hen is limping and i can't understand why I isolated her, which is also a bad thing given how cold it is out, all by herself. she doesn't have a bumblefoot, or...
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    calcium levels in hen's feed

    hello, i have one question for you guys. I make my own feed, and add specific additives according to the type of animal being fed. I use wheat, sunflower, sometimes oats, barley, field peas as the base and then I add a protein concentrate (it is essentially freeze dried and powdered hog skin) to...
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    cannibalism, I dont undersand

    Hello I am facing a big problem with my "meat" flock. this is just one of many. this year, I could not afford to make a new breeding stock, i say, well, let's BUY chicks, as they are cheaper from the local "tractor supply" (my hens are strongly suspected of being carriers of salmonella thypoid...
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    I finally have a new house hen. Am I being mean?

    hello. after the death of my beloved house hen zig zag last year, i finally have found a new friend. i was so sad, and i thought I could never love again. this little hen, the name is Lisa, was part of my new dual-purpose flock of chicks, she got pecked on her bum and i brought her inside, but...
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    Salmonella outbreak

    Hello, My laying hen flock might have a salmonella outbreak. I call it an outbreak, but it's likely going on for at least a year+ I have 2 flocks currently. 1 is my laying hens, coop and run. 2. is meat/replacement chickens out on pasture in chicken tractors. Some of those are the off-spring of...
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    Bad feed, genetics, lack of exercise, or all of the above?

    Hello, I have a question. I know I am a bad owner to start with, I will accept if i get bashed for it. I cannot figure out if my hens are getting really fat only because of their feed, or if there are strong genetic factors at play. I have 2 flocks, 5 lohman brown (equivalent to isa browns...
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    Hen, lethargic, watery poops, hunched up

    My house hen is sick :( she was ok 2 days ago, been spending time indoors as outside it rained pretty bad, then she started sitting down and sleeping, i joked that i caught her she sleeping on the job. Yesterday she did sleep a lot during the day, i figured she was just bored. today, she looked...
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    The house hen

    Hello, I have one pullet/hen that's 7 months old, she is part of a meat flock, but I don't want to eat her, she always made me smile because she bobs her head back and forth, My mom keeps joking saying that she is ... well. retarded, as she is slow to understand things, she says she is born...
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    Roosters trouble

    Hello! I have a question, before i do something permanent to which i will regret. I have 22 hens in an enclosed run, this enclosed run has also another enclosed pen, in which i had 14 chickens that i bought for meat from a company of those, I kept one nice white rooster, i love him so much, for...
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    hens plucking feathers

    Hello, i have 21 hens of mixed breed, 5 of which are lohman brown. of those, 2, are plucking feathers off the others, i had to separate them from the rest. Why they do this? No other hen does it.
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    Chicken tractors and roosters

    hello, i am having a sort of a problem. I am raising 20 chickens for meat pasture in 2 chicken tractors, they all came from the eggs from my hens, in one, there are 9 boys, in another 11 most girls and 2 calmer boys. in the 9 boy tractor, now that they are 4 months old, they keep fighting and...
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    Putting your chickens a sleep at dusk

    Hello, I have a question, maybe this occurred to many of you too. As we know, chickens go to sleep when it's dark so in essence they put themselves asleep without us. I see my neighbour, about 45 minutes or so before it's dark dark and chickens are around, she comes with a broom, or sometimes...
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    too much corn????

    I am puzzled about my feeding. all my chickens, both meat, roosters, laying hens, everyone eats a mash made out of "milled grains" (freshly milled) concentrate (minerals, soy, sunflowers 40% protein). The layers get their calcium added in. It is a very cost-effective way for us to feed, the feed...
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    Small muscles, heart failure, weird things.

    Hello, sorry for the weird title. The issue in question happened to one pullet of a "meat" flock. the girl was about 5 months old. Of the flock we've already taken out all the boys one month ago, now only the girls I have left. Of that flock, two boys got sick with something that very likely...
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