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  1. FolkSonginC

    Rooster wheezing and hoarse/squeaky crow. Treatment?

    My beloved Liege rooster has unfortunately come down with what I'm guessing is some type of respiratory infection. I noticed yesterday morning that he was making a wheezing sound when he breathed, and later that day he started to lose his crow and it became very hoarse and squeaky. He seems...
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    Feeding practices for male sheep?

    This is copied from the backyard herds forum, where I just posted it - posting it here because that forum doesn't seem very active, and I'm a little bit anxious. Hopefully someone here is knowledgeable about this kind of stuff. I have mostly male sheep: two wethers, one ram, and a ewe. They all...
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    split barbu de watermael or bantam order from GFF?

    I'm looking into getting some barbu de watermael, and I can't find any anywhere except GFF. I would love to get some even though they're expensive, but the minimum order of 12 is way too many for me. Would anyone in the new england area (I'm in Portland, ME) be interesting in splitting a bantam...
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    what sex? 6 week old chicks

    I've been hatching chicks for a couple years but haven't quite gotten the hang of sexing them. I have these two mixes that I hatched and I'm guessing the black one is a hen but not sure about the other. Any guesses? The black one also weirdly seems to be missing tail feathers, not sure what's up...
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    the legacy continues...

    I had to put my beloved silkie rooster, Herb, to sleep at the vet a couple days ago. He was my first chicken and I hatched him from an egg, and I always wanted to breed him because he had really good type but I think because of incubation mistakes I made when I hatched him and multiple power...
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    how to keep chicken stable until vet app? Tube feeding?

    I have a vet appointment for my rooster herb tomorrow but he seems to be declining, he's lost a lot of weight even though he's eating which I read could be some sort of bacterial infection that stops him from processing food correctly? He has also had green droppings which I believe would...
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    Very sick roosters

    I've been struggling to keep my beloved silkie rooster stable the past week as he has started to mysteriously decline. About a week ago, maybe a little longer, I noticed bright green poop in the coop and determined that it was coming from him. I read that this could be bile (?) because he's...
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    chick hatched with bloody yolk hanging out, please help

    one of my chicks just hatched and when I went to take it out of the incubator I saw that it hadn't fully absorbed its yolk sack/blood vessels and it has a bloody mess hanging from its naval and still attached to the shell. I took it out with the shell and put it in a quarantine container, the...
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    please help chick hatched with unabsorbed yolk, bleeding

    one of my chicks just hatched and when I went to take it out of the incubator I saw that it hadn't fully absorbed its yolk sack/blood vessels and it has a bloody mess hanging from its naval and still attached to the shell. I took it out with the shell and put it in a quarantine container, the...
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    Half week old chick closing eyes, not moving, emergency

    I hatched out eight chicks on wednesday and they all seemed fine, most hatched on day 21 and two on day 22 so seemed like the perfect hatch. They were all eating and drinking fine, but for the last day or two I have noticed one sleeping more and not moving around as much. Now this morning it is...
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    Interest in liege fighter?

    This is pretty far off but I'm incubating some expensive liege fighter eggs from a reputable breeder- 100% pure from greenfire and separated into groups to prevent inbreeding- and I'm just curious what the interest is, especially around the new england area for chicks in the future. When they're...
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    temp discrepancy in magicfly incubator

    So I just got the mini magicfly automatic incubator and set it up, let it run for about 24 hours. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the temperature setting (I set to 37.5 c) matched the reading on my new brinsea spot check thermometer perfectly. I let it run for a while to monitor and then...
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    toxin flush for ducks? lethargic?

    I have two muscovy girls that I keep in with my other ducks, and while I don't typically let them free range this time of year (grass destroyers) the muscovies like to fly out of their pen and walk around, which I don't mind because it's only two. However, this morning when I went to let them...
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    blackish grey comb on rooster?

    I've been careful to watch for signs of frostbite on my chickens throughout the winter, and they all seemed to be fine. I believe frostbit makes the tips of the comb look kind of black, so I'm confused because I just noticed that my rooster's comb is starting to turn very very grey and a little...
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    Liege fighters and hedemoras from greenfire farms

    I really shouldn't be getting more chickens, but it's that time of year again and I've been browsing all the chicken breeds that I can't afford on greenfire farms! I'm really interested in the liege fighters so I'm thinking of getting some and possibly splitting the order with a friend or...
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    urgent, EE hen puffed up and laying down, not moving

    My little EE hen didn't get out of the coop this morning, and is puffed up and lethargic and not even standing up. She's not eating or drinking on her own, but when I dip her beak into her water she drinks so I've been doing that. I've had problems with coccidiosis in the past and she's housed...
  17. FolkSonginC

    Water belly in ducks? please help

    Starting yesterday I noticed that one of my ducks abdomen was hanging down, and I initially though she might be egg bound because I noticed her sitting down more than the others. It looked sort of like an egg shaped lump too. I gave her a warm soak and tried to feel the area a little bit, but I...
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    urgent, blood in poop, lethargic and puffed up

    One of my chickens died recently, and I couldn't figure out why. He had really bad seizures right before death, and it was very sudden, I didn't notice any symptoms beforehand. I have no idea if this is related but my two little silkies are starting to show symptoms of what I think is...
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    Emergency!! chicken almost dead, not moving

    I just went out to put my animals away and noticed my sweet little banty rooster, Poe, wasn't in the coop, and I found him lying completely still around the back. I picked him up and brought him inside and he's pretty limp but still breathing. I had a problem with coccidiosis this spring and...
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    Best organic food for mixed flock? 19% protein?

    I've been doing a ton of research to try and find the best food for my flocks. I've been looking at new country organics corn-free layer, which looks great, but the only problem is I have drakes and roosters (in addition to hens) and I'm worried about the extra calcium. They are mostly pet...
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