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    Broody hen won't poop?

    Hi! I have kind of an odd question. Small backstory, i hatched bantam cochins last year, ended up with 4 roosters and 1 hen. I have a special rat proof coop i keep them in since they are so small and I've had instances of small birds getting eaten by rodents (mostly quails). About two weeks ago...
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    Turkey with eye discharge and cloudy eye

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    Help with goose and babies

    Hi, so my 3 year old goose decided to hatch her own babies (she’s already done it successfully last year). They just hatched, there were 5 eggs and they all hatched but one died while still under his mama unfortunately. Last year I took her babies away because it was too dangerous for them to be...
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    Gander following me and vibrating neck (help?)

    So, I have a total of 9 geese, 6 ganders and 3 geese. Recently one of the youngest ganders (born the 24th of may 2020) started doing odd things, he seems to have a liking for my father, he will get away from the other geese to follow him wherever he goes, he will even climb walls if he goes past...
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    Rats killing quail?

    Hi everybody, this is very frustrating to write... so 6 days ago I found a quail eaten by something in my aviary. The only thing left was the heart, chest cracked open and emptied. I’ve never had any problems with predators so this is a first for me... since this spring I have lots of rats going...
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    [URGENT] Help with broody goose hatching goslings!!!

    Hi everybody, so my Toulouse goose has been sitting on 7 of her eggs for approx 28-29 days. I noticed a couple of eggs are already hatching but the goose is acting strange, she sometimes gets up and stays in the standing position for 5-10 mins and then sits back down. One of the goslings is...
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    [EXPERIMENT] hatching eggs collected over 30 days.

    Hi everybody, so the story is basically I ordered 8 turkey eggs from a breeder here in Italy (shipped), unfortunately only 6 were intact at delivery. The breeder offered to add some eggs to another order I had placed with him which will get shipped on the 15th of June, for 14 Muscovy duck eggs...
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    Very small clutch?

    Hey everybody, I wanted to try and get my goose to go broody. She's a 2 year old Toulouse goose. She's been paired with 3 males. Last year she was alone and went broody on her own, so I decided I'd try again now that she's with some ganders. I stopped taking the eggs away one week ago, she built...
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    Diy incubator humidity advice

    Hi everybody, I just finished building my first ever diy cabinet incubator. Right now it can only hold 48 eggs but there's space for two more trays. The only problem with it is the humidifier just burns through the water too quickly, it has a 3 liters tank and will just run dry in a day and a...
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    Chick hasn't internally pipped on day 22

    Hi everyone, so I had 8 ayam cemani eggs in the incubator, they were supposed to hatch on the 10th of May at 23:00. 5 hatched, 2 were dead inside the egg and 1 is misteriously still alive in the egg but isn't showing any signs of wanting to come out. No internal nor external pip, I can clearly...
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    Best incubator to use as Hatcher?

    Hi everyone, hope your holidays are going great! I have some plans for next year’s baby season and I would like to have a double Bator setup (one incubator and one Hatcher) so that I won’t have to put all eggs of one kind at a time in the incubator and in the same day, would really be awesome so...
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    Goose attacked by dog

    one of my 5 toulose geese was attacked by one of my two dogs tonight. It was entirely my fault, i usually close them up right before sunset, but today i was studying for an important exam and i figured i would do it before dinner instead, my dogs tolerate all the birds in the day, but for some...
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    • attack dog goose skin tear wound
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    • Forum: Geese
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    Weird new quail coloration

    So, I hatched my first batch of my own quail eggs about two weeks ago, out of 32 18 were fertile and 15 hatched (low male to female ratio, but whatever) I was expecting to get about 50% golden Italians and 50% dark pharaoh, which I did get, but I also got two pharaohs who look very weird, their...
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    Goose doesn't want to stand on one leg

    Hello everyone, so I have a problem with my goose, she's 1 year old. This morning when I went to let her out I noticed she was hesitant to walk, she was standing there, stationary. When I went to take a closer look I noticed she was standing on one leg and would limp when walking. IDK what she...
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    best treatment for prolapsed vent in quail?

    Hello everyone, today while i was collecting my eggs for the day i noticed a female had some poop balls stuck to her feet. no problem, i thought, ill just bring her inside for a few minutes and clean her feet. So i did that, but as i went to get her back in the aviary, i noticed she had a...
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    best way to store quail eggs for incubation?

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to incubate my own quail eggs for the first time. I have experience hatching quail eggs, but all of the quails I hatched were always from shipped eggs. I now want to attempt incubating my own eggs, but I am unsure how I should store them. I will be storing them for...
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    Storing quail eggs in fridge?

    Hello everyone, I'm trying to incubate my own quail eggs for the first time. I have experience hatching quail eggs, but all of the quails I hatched were always from shipped eggs. I now want to attempt incubating my own eggs, but I am unsure how I should store them. I will be storing them for...
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    first time hatching indian runner ducks (and ducks in general)

    so, a few days ago i hatched my first ever toulose goose (https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/first-time-hatching-goose-eggs-o.1305909), i am building a pen for waterfowl and i wanted to add a few indian runners as well :) so i went ahead and ordered 8 indian runner eggs from a very...
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    • ducks incubation
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    • Forum: Ducks
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    first time hatching goose eggs :o

    welp, @Texas Kiki wanted me to make this thread :D so here it is! i had set 6 toulose goose eggs in the incubator, we are at day 18 today. I candled them at day 9 and at day 15, removed 2 infertile eggs and currently monitoring another that i believe might have died around day 10. the other 3...
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    • eggs goose incubation toulose goose
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    • Forum: Geese
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    3 months old chick can't put his head up

    Hi all, I just noticed one of my two chicks was on the side of the cage and couldn't get up. I have no idea what happened, they are both living inside at around 70°F, they have access to food and water and everything, what can this be? They were born together and always lived together so I don't...
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