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    Mycoplasma and management - Advice, experience please!

    Hey all, I have been suspecting that my flock is mycoplasma positive and have been kind of hemming and hawing about what to do since at this point we are only utilizing the flock for eating eggs. Here's some background information: I started my flock a year ago with some adult birds from a...
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    Bumblefoot Diagnosis Comfirmation

    Hey all! Looking for a confirmation on what I think is early bumblefoot. Pictures attached. Thanks!
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    Tips Wanted for Feeding Ducks

    New duck mama here, and while I fully expected them to be messy, I did not expect to be so perplexed by feeding them. They are wasting so much food (currently they eat Purina duck pellets) because they get it so wet that it turns into a solid mass in their dish and they can no longer eat it...
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    Approx. 2 week old silkie, recurring pasty butt and now vent prolapse - please advise!

    Hello all! A couple weeks ago I fell prey to the TSC bantam bin and came home with 7 more babies. I expected having to treat them for pasty butt, and have had to do so at least once for each chick. The buff silkie, though, keeps on needing to be bathed and now its vent has prolapsed. Housing...
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    Mystery TSC chick

    I got this cutie out if the BLRW pullet bin at TSC. Its wing feathers make me suspicious, as the other BLRW chick I got very obvious has the lacing in the correct colors. Anybody know what this is?
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    April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

    Welp, it's time to start up a thread for those of us that have babies hatching in April! All hatchers and all birds are welcome :). Easter babies: please enter your hatches in the 11th annual Easter Hatch A Long 2020! Participants here have eggs that are not hatching close enough to Easter to...
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    Guess the breed?

    I got my first ducklings today! They are from TSC. I went expecting to see mostly pekins, with some khaki Campbell and rouens mixed in. Not a pekin in sight! They were mostly rouens and 3 that looked different. So naturally I picked out all 3 of the oddballs and a handful of the rouens. The...
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    ISO Cayuga Duck Hatching Eggs

    I'm interested in getting some Cayuga eggs this year, especially if you have any ducks that lay really dark eggs in the beginning of their lay period (I know they "run out of toner" but the dark eggs are pretty). Anybody have em? eta: I'm located in upper Michigan.
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    Never a dull day with chickens!

    It was a gorgeous bluebird day in our area - nearly 50 degrees and not a cloud in the sky, a real treat for us in February. Well, I decided to open up the run and let the chickens out for a bit. My husband accidentally spooked one of the more flighty hens and she ended up on top of the...
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    Panic doors? Advice wanted!

    Is there such a thing as a panic door that a full-sized chicken could get through, but a predator (such as fox, small coyote) couldn't? If you have designed something like this, would you mind sharing your ideas with me? I am designing a new coop and run set up, and will start free ranging my...
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    Hello from Houghton County, Michigan!

    Hey all! Signed up last night, figured I'd post a thread here in case anyone is interested haha. I've been on the BYC Facebook group page for several months now and knew I had to sign up for the forum when I was refreshing the FB group page waiting for new posts 😩 I'm obsessed! 🤦‍♀️ I currently...
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