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    Emergency Help! Duck Strangled in poultry net fence

    I just found a duck strangled in the poultry net. The fence was not hot. I found her laying still and not struggling. I cut her free. Her eyes are bloodshot. She is red in the nostrils - not bleeding just red. Her head is swollen. I last looked at the poultry about an hour before, so she may...
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    New Puppy! Pics - guess the mix!

    This is our new puppy. We have named her "Ruby". She is 12 weeks old and the calmest puppy I have ever had. We had the opportunity to meet her mother and litter mates who were also at the shelter where we adopted Ruby. We thought Mom is a heeler / maybe pitbull mix? Mom is about 35-40 lbs...
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    Breed poll - I can only add one more layer this year... which one?

    My current flock is listed in my signature line. I am already keeping another silkie chick and they will both be raised (with other silkie chicks to be sold) by my constantly broody silkie hen who is a great momma. It would be nice to have some more color in the egg basket, a good disposition...
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    Lost one, but to what?

    This happened in July but I have not been able to post about it until now. We had 2 pet silkies. One partridge, one buff. The buff, "Little Bit" was killed in the daytime. We had gone on errands longer than planned and left the girls to roam inside the electric poultry fence. The silkies had...
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    Re-homing La Fonda the Silkie Roo - Bittersweet

    Well we did it. We found a home for La Fonda our sweet Silkie rooster and delivered him over the weekend. He went with his two favorite hens to a nice guy chicken farmer who plans to use him to start his silkie project. He has another gorgeous white silkie roo and a few hens. La Fonda is so...
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    Gray Silkie Rooster - Nice Quality and Nice Guy -- SOLD

    We are selling our backyard pet roo. He is 1 year old, has been handled all his life and is a sweet guy who knows his job. We live in the city and can't keep him anymore. Available for semi-local (to Portland) pickup or deliver only. I will be driving to the south coast the weekend of the 4th...
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    Year old wyandotte fails to thrive...others fine

    So, I have been trying to help our Petunia (SLW) pull it together for a while now and I am wondering why she fails to do as well as the others and what to do about it. She is a petite (thin) wyandotte and always was a slow developer. She is one year old. She is roosters favorite as well so has...
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    Old Dog Nurses Unite! Support and information sharing thread

    I thought that there must be many of us who have old dogs and might like a little support from a thread dedicated to our old friends and our attempts to help them age gracefully. It can be a lot of work to care for an old dog and watching them age can be difficult too. Hopefully this thread...
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    What colors from mixed Silkie trio?

    Here they are. Gray roo with a blue partridge hen and a buff hen. The hens are sitting now and due to hatch the 19th. I am hoping some experts will weigh in on what colors may hatch out. I was expecting grays and partridges from the first pairing...but I really have no clue. Am thinking the...
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    What do you do with a choosy rooster?

    Give him the hair of a silkie hen? Not our guy. Silkie rooster is not doing his job with the silkie hens. He prefers the standard hens and I have never seen him with the silkie hens. I don't know what to do! The goal is to let these silkies hatch a brood this spring and sell all but one or two...
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    Potassium iodide for chickens?

    People here are expecting radioactive fallout from the Japanese nuclear facilities. Looking at dosages for Potassium Iodide for humans and pets but can find nothing on chickens. Anyone know if we should bother to treat the chickens in the event of fallout (looking more and more likely)? Should...
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    Can it really be this easy? Introducing new hens

    A few weeks back we got 3 new Australorp hens. After the appropriate quarantine period I prepared to introduce them to my mixed flock. I was planning to bring them in slowly in a separate run/ same area etc, etc. Day before yesterday, in a fit of post flu dementia I decided to just let them...
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    Urban free rangers beware - Raccoons are feeding kits now

    Just a word of warning for folks who free range in the backyard. Raccoons are often out during the day this time of year because they are feeding litters of kits and may need to expand their ranging hours into daylight. Folks have mentioned to me lately that they are seeing raccoons out during...
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    Barrel coop - looking for venting ideas

    I took 3 BA's from my friend who is losing his land and had to liquidate his flock of 50+ birds. They are all going to processing today except these three, 14 month old girls. I am excited, but I only got 1 day notice and had to put this together before dark last night, with just what I had on...
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    Painting inside of coop - can i mix paint and primer and save a step?

    Painting inside of coop after mite infestation. chickens are washed and dusted, that was yesterday. They spent the night in the basement. I bleached the coop yesterday too. Now I need to paint. It's raw wood inside. Hoping that I can save a step, mix paint and primer and go to town. Any...
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    Contraband Rooster and his Homemade Timer Box **Pics**

    We have a silkie roo named LaFonda. We live in the city and we love our little roo. We also live in the "country" part of the city where the lots are large and the roads are gravel. So, we talked to the neighbors and everyone thinks he's grand. But we still want to keep him quiet until 9am/...
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    Broody hen -fertile eggs -no hatch -now what?

    Am watching my neighbors chickens. They have a new baby, and are away until the 15th. They've had a broody Java. Bird has been broody, off and on (mostly on), for months. We put some fertile eggs under her 24 days ago. The eggs were from my newly laying pullets, good sized, but still... they...
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    La Fonda the Silkie...in a show? (pics)

    I love this little roo. He is a dream, but alas I live in a neighborhood and it's too much. I know, people fry up or rehome roos all the time, but just look at this. He likes to be held like this. If I give him a treat while I'm holding him, he carries it in his beak until I put him down and...
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    Gray Silkie cockerel - 5 mos. pickup only.

    Purchased from a local breeder. Hatch 3/5/10. He is very sweet, would make a great kid's project. Becoming an attentive roo. Just started crowing. I am clueless as to confirmation, feet etc. can send pics if interested. Local (within 40 miles of Portland, OR) delivery available to good home...
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    It's a BOY!! Silkie crowed today. Now what?

    Ok, so it looks like we have a pair. La Fonda crowed today. Sounded like a kitty mewing but still. He is 15 weeks. We just have the 2 silkies and 4 standards. They all grew up together and are the same age. I really would like to keep him but of course we are not allowed roosters. I'm concerned...
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