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    Rooster seizing??

    Hi All! I noticed this AM our rooster just sort of lay down after they were let out. He was in a daze. He usually will chase off our two drakes from the hens but he didn’t today. He was crowing this AM, eating, walking around after this incident. Then this afternoon, he was free ranging...
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    Housing chickens inside freezing temps

    Hi All! We have a rooster with pretty bad frostbite to his wattles. Our girls are starting to developers it on their combs (mild). It’s -7 with windchill of -18. They have a barn, a place to get out of the wind, and then an enclosed coop for night, Which they aren’t going into right. We have...
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    Rescued Rooster- Mild Frostbite

    Hi All! My daughter and I rescued a rooster yesterday. Apparently it had been out for almost two days sleeping in a tree at our school. We had temps in the high 20’s-mid 30’s with snow, sleet, wind. Poor guy was sitting on ice in the tree. Anyway, we got him home, isolated him in the...
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    Duckling Stuck??

    Hi! do we assist in this situation or the duckling is still absorbing. Duckling freed itself from the shell the middle of the night but still has this going on. Duckling moving, breathing, chirping but tired...obviously. Thank you!!!!
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    My Muddy Ducks!

    Morning! So we just had a ton of rain and our ducks loved it. Now it’s a muddy mess. ☺️ Question, does anyone use pea gravel underneath their pools or around to try and limit the amount of excessive mud that they make? Thank you!
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    Silkie Bantam Chick Needs Help

    Hi All, We have days old silkie bantam. It’s not doing well. Started not eating yesterday so we gave it nutra drench slightly diluted, mashed up food and fed with q-tip side of beak as well as water with lytes/vitamins. last night at two in the morning it couldn't walk. See video. We lost the...
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    Chicken Attacked by Mountain Lion

    Hi All! Quick little insight. We let our girls free range under supervision since we lost one girl to, what we thought was a fox, but turns out we have a mountain lion living in the woods behind our home. last night, I went to move one of the hens from the edge of the woods and a mountain...
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    Bantam Roosters

    Hi All! We are trying to order bantams but a lot of companies only sell straight run. Does anyone have experience with bantam roo’s? We only have had hens and I’ve read, one rooster is enough otherwise you will have problems. Any input is appreciated! Thanks
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    Duckling hatching

    Hi All! we are waiting for our 4th of July baby to hatch. First time doing this, first crack yesterday and now it seems stalled. Do we need to intervene? I read it is a slow process but just want to make sure.
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    Raccoon Broad Daylight

    Hello! We just had a raccoon come into our chicken run this morning, not once but three times. Luckily I was working outside in our barn and saw it come out of the forest and under the fence. There’s is one or two gaps that something can slip under and believe it’s not very much, maybe 3”...
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    Sick Pekin Quarantined

    Hi All! This might be a stupid question but going to ask for advice anyway. Our pekin female has been really sick since last Saturday. She’s been on two antibiotics. They think she might have a joint infection. She has pain meds too. Ive been keeping her 5 other duck friends away but besides...
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    Feather Follicle

    Hi All! Well we have another issue with one of our birds, our Pekin Duck. We believe that she has a feather follicle. Seems pretty large. She is not a happy camper. Has anyone experienced this? My questions are; did your bird continue to eat and act normally or did it seem like they were...
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    Respiratory Disease

    Hello, looking for some help with our hen. Monday she was wheezing, sneezing and scratching her head. She is 10 months old. We started her on Chlortetracycline Monday night (per the Vet), Tuesday she was happy, eating drinking, layed etc. As of Wednesday she has been declining. We have been...
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    Pekin Duck Leg Injury/Niacin??

    Hi All! We have 4, 6 week old Peking’s. On Monday basically Overnight (or at least I think so) one of them can barely use her leg. She tries to walk and it slides out to the side. She tries to pick the leg up to move and her foot buckles under. We have been giving them brewers yeast...
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    Bullying Hen to our Bantam

    Hi All! We’ve had two bantams for over 2 years and they were raised with our 5 pullets since summer. They have a huge enclosure, two separate sleeping quarters, lots of toys and treats. One of the hen is bullying the bantam, chasing her. Any ideas...I’ve put scratch grain for them to dig...
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    Drake Pekins Aggressive

    Hi All! We have two four-month old drake Pekin’s. We do not have any females. They live with our chickens, we were told they could all live together as long as they have lots of space. One of the drakes is being aggressive to one hen. Chases her around. Any one else have this problem...
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    6 Week Pekin Duck Eats Plastic Bracelet

    Hi All!! We are new to BYC in regards to asking for help since we haven't had much trouble except for this morning. Our daughter was wearing a tiny, tiny plastic beaded bracelet that she made and our little (actually not so little) Peking duck snatched it off her wrist. It happened so fast...
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