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  1. Little Farm Girl

    Why did the baby chick and turkeys die??

    We bought 4 chicks at about 1 week old, and 2 red bourbon turkey chicks around the same age. They were all about the same size, and were doing great together. We (thought) we had been doing really well with this batch. It was a nice small batch, we have kept the bedding clean, they’ve had water...
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    What do we do with this poopy/soggy/hard hen bum?

    What should we do for this poor girl? We now have her separated with acv in her water, normal pellets & some scratch. it almost feels like an egg Is stuck or something. there is a big saggy thing hanging down below the bone that goes down her chest/stomach, it is hard.
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    LGD puppy-4 mo old-Help!

    Our LGD puppy is in or garden, which has a 6 ft chainlink fence around it, and nothing growing in it, and it has a nice size shed in it for Sheera(the lgd). The chickens pen runs all the way around the garden, and the have their barn too...we let Sheera out to mingle with the chickens while we...
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    Easiest way to raise chicks

    We are looking for the easiest way you have found to raise chicks besides using a hen. We have raised them for six years now, and tried many different methods of heating, and bedding. Some of them have worked ok, and some of them have killed the chicks. We don’t want to mess up again this year...
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    Add the best caption to this pic!

    Add the funniest or best caption to this photo! Ready, set, go:pop
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    Sheltie, Aussie, our border collie with chickens?

    We have about 200 chickens, and we are wanting a family & farm dog that will be good with the chickens. We are wanting to get either a sheltie, Aussie, or a border collie mix, which will be best with the chickens do you think? We do understand that they will all have a herding instinct.
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    Are these worth getting?

    Ok, so we are interested in buying these 10 geese for $200, they say there are 2 ganders, 7 girls, and 1 baby. We want them to breed, sell the goslings, and be “pets” as much as possible (except for breeding season and with babies of course). So pretty much have them for enjoyment and money. The...
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    What breeds are these?

    What breeds of geese are these? Should we buy them? Somebody is selling them as a flock for quite a deal. But I want to know what breeds they are first, and they don’t know...
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    Geese & Emu to gaurd chickens?

    Since it didn't seem like a LGD was going to work for us, We've been recommended geese and emu. What are yalls experiences with geese and emu to guard chickens? Our main predators are foxes and Hawks. We need all the advice, options, info we can get! Thanks! The emu/geese would sleep inside...
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    What breed of dog should we get?

    Update: we edited the thread, that's why it might not make since now, and We have found a solution. Im not sure what forum to post this in, but, we have a fox that is taking our chickens from various areas at night. It needs to stay on our property. Would it be best to get as a little puppy or...
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    -Russian Orloffs-

    Calling all Russian Orloff obtainers! We have one spangled Russian Orloff rooster that we somehow ended up with, and we love him. We would like to start breeding Russian orloffs since they seem so awesome yet unknown, and hopefully eventually come up with/bring back some unique colors, we...
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    Are 360 egg turners or regular ones better?

    Which do you recommend?
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    What is wrong with Ideal poultry's baby turkeys?

    We went to our local feed store to pick up our turkey order(they order from Ideal poultry) and a lot of their baby turkeys were doing bad not only from shipment, but something was wrong with them. We thought that their eyes had maybe just been Like pecked our something, but like 12 of them were...
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    Why do the eggs grow to day 18 and then not hatch?

    Several years ago, before we knew anything about adding certain amounts of water, and keeping the humidity right(I mean we didn't even have a humidity gauge) and all of that, we were setting 42 eggs, and we would have at least 34 babies hatch. Now, we set them and worry about adding more water...
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    Are these all Roosters?

    We really need some help. They are white leghorn, crested cream legbars crosses. They are 2-3 months old. I think these are all Roosters, what do y'all think? Somebody is coming to get all Roosters at 4:30 and I don't want to give her any pullets, lol. I need help!
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    Hi, and sorry we didn't post here sooner.

    Hello, we live in East Texas on abut 7 acres, I know this isn't really a good "introduction", but we have a big problem we need help with right now(continue reading to find out), and there isn't much more to know about us, lol. We have a big barn, with a 6 ft chain link fence yard attached to...
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    What breed of dog protects chickens?

    What breed or mixed breed of dog if any will kill or scare of like Coyotes, opossums, foxes, dogs, etc? We have 115 chickens on 2 of our 7 acres, laying hens sleep in the barn with a chainlink fence yard around it, there is an additional 6ft chainlink fence pen attached to the back of the barn...
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    Opinions on whelp hatchery?

    Should we order from them or not? We read some bad reviews, but they are the only hatchery I can find that has blue langshan chicks, unless anybody else knows where to get standard blue langshans..? Thank you for your reviews!
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    What is wrong with this duck?

    What is wrong with her? It's like her right "breast" is hanging low and weird, we thought it was just food or something, but it hasn't gone away, and it feels like your arm fat, or thigh fat or something... Should I be concerned? What should I do? Thank you!
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    Hens or Roo's?

    I know they "aren't technically old enough", so I know guesses are just guesses, but what are your guesses? There are obviously all one gender in one picture and all the other gender in the other picture but which picture has which gender? Thanks in advance!
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