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    Marraduna Basque(Euskal Oiloa) BUY IT NOW 7+ hatching eggs $25

    The Marraduna Basque is a very hardy dual purpose landrace bird. I have been searching for a breed that could withstand the dry heat of the Arizona desert without having to completely baby them. I have found that in the Marranduna Basque. They lay a wonderful glossy light brown egg and are the...
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    disappointed and sad with Holderread's silver appleyards

    back in june i received my first order from Holderread's. 5 WH, 5 SA and 7 magpies. first, my beautiful magpies, 6 of 7 end up being boys. at 5 weeks, i lost a harlequin and an appleyard, don't know why. every one else was fine. last week i lost an appleyard female, dead in the pen in the...
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    Broody WH duck??????

    one of my WH ducks has decided to go broody, i think. she is 8 months old. she keeps building up her nest in the laying box but she is not sitting on any eggs as i collect them every morning. the eggs are not fertile anyway. i keep shooing her out but she makes a ruckus at me, runs around, gets...
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    feeding ducklings alfalfa a BAD IDEA according to Holderread

    so i am fairly new to ducks(march of this year) and i received my Holderread's order in june. they are 4.5 weeks old now and doing great except one silver appleyard that suddenly out of nowhere could hardly get up, it's legs were wide apart and wobbly and was just off. i couldn't figure it out...
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    Aquiring geese and ducks from a local rescue

    there are a few local waterfowl rescues in my area that, one in particular, is just LOADED with domestic geese and ducks that have been rescued from area parks that people have dumped their pets shortly after easter. they get tangled in fishing lines, there is one park that punk teens were...
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    Muscovy drakes biting my hens feathers and not letting go!

    I have 2 muscovy drakes and 2 muscovy ducks, all hatched St. Patty's day so they are about 3 months old and have been living with 4 hens, 5 pullets and 2 roos. As of recently, the drakes are chasing and biting the hens on their feathers and holding on for dear life. What in the world is that...
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    So...my mom has cancer and I'm her punching bag

    We found out in May of this year that my mom has cancer(multiple myeloma) and she is doing chemo twice per week, plus a bone marrow transplant right before christmas. In order to help her and my dad, I take my mom to her treatments once a week, it's a long drive and we are there for HOURS. I am...
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    Broody tried to kill her baby, broke chick's beak

    My broody dark brahma was sitting on two eggs, one egg that we knew was viable for sure, the other very iffy, saw no movement on day 10, but left it since their was some development. Day 21 arrives and I am concerned that just the one will hatch, perhaps none and I don't want her to continue to...
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    Sicilian Buttercups 8 weeks

    These Sicilian Buttercups came from McMurrary SEXED as pullets, but they have red combs that grew at 4 weeks and they just don't look like any picture of Buttercups that I have seen. They are soooooo orange, they have solid orange feathers coming in when they should be spotted....did I get two...
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    Blue Cochins one boy one girl?????

    I bought these two cutie pies, they are almost 3 weeks I am guessing. Do I have one boy, one girl? They were straight run. I notice they are feathering in completely different.
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    almost 6 month old speckled sussex pullet-loss of balance, can't walk,

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. STANDARD SPECKLED SUSSEX, ALMOST 6 MONTHS OLD, MAYBE 2 POUNDS 2) What is the behavior, exactly. SUDDEN ONSET OF LOSS OF BALANCE, CAN'T WALK, RUFFLED UP FEATHERS, FALLS DOWN 3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms? SINCE THIS MORNING 4) Are other...
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    internal laying? how do you know?

    i don't know if this is the right spot for this , but i have a hatchery rhode island red that hatched the first week of april 2010. she started laying sometime in october about 5-6 eggs a week, large in size, she gets layer feed by manna pro, free ranges 4-5 hours a day, has a light in the coop...
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    DH dropped my 5 day old SS-now it's limping

    i can't believe he did that. she is limping on her left leg. could it be broken? what in the world do i do? anything? i am so mad!!!!!!!! i have been waiting for my feed store to get in these SS and i just picked up 2 yesterday. one when i got it home couldn't eat and had some pretty bad stress...
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    12 week old EE woke me with egg song this AM....

    for a very long time. it went on forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she seemed very aggitated, pacing back and forth, couldn't touch her, so i broke out the nesting boxes with the fake eggs inside. all the other birds were just quietly staring from their perches and this EE wouldn...
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    saw worms in poo this AM...treatment?

    I have 7 pullets ages almost 8 weeks up to 10 weeks old. This morning I was cleaning the coop and I found a big pile of poo with some watery stuff in it and in had about 5 long thin white and red things in it, like super thin angel hair pasta. nothing was moving, but super gross. i realized i...
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    7 w old BO temporary whole body paralysis????? merek's?

    she is 7 weeks old, living outside in her coop for the last month, using sand for bedding and the fenced in run is dirt and some grass. she is fed mannapro medicated starter with a bit of DE in it and DE in the coop and everyother day my daughter throws out a small handful of raw oatmeal. she...
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    BO chick not eating, drinking-sneezing and opening mouth

    5 to 5 1/2 week old BO chick seems to not want to eat food or drink, but will eat grit and other stuff outside. she seems small to me, not sure on weight, but she was the smallest of all the BOs in the bunch in the feed store when we got her(my daughter picked THAT ONE!) she is almost fully...
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    what to use for litter in coop-highly allergic to hay and shavings

    Ugh, so everytime I go out to that coop and clean it out, which is like 3 times this week alone(they are in lockdown for 2 weeks, just went outside last week and they are poping up a storm) i come back in and i am itchy all over, my eyes are swelled up, the next morning they are completely blood...
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    can you vaccinate 5 week old chicks for mereks?

    my chicks were purchased at the feed store and i thought they were vaccinated for merek's. i called the feed store today and they weren't. they are now 5 weeks old. a friend has 2 more chicks for me, but they are vaccinated and i read that you can't have unvacinated chicks around those that are...
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    5 week chicks, fairly certain it's cocci

    i just found some poo pics on another site of birds after treatment for cocci and they look exactly like what i have going on. so i have 6- 5 week old chicks, some of them look absolutely fine, some are now all puffed up. i just finished a 6 day course of sulmet on tuesday. so i treated them...
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