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    How to tell when ready to lay?

    How do I know when my geese will be ready to lay? I have no experience with geese. Chicks I know by their comb and desire to be in a nest box. also is it common for them to eat eggs?
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    Goat biting chicken ??

    I recently added two young male goats as weed control - they share the hen house. Lovable boys who act more like dogs in wanting attention. I recently was out socializing with the group and was petting a pullet on my lap when one of my boys came over and stuck her foot in his mouth. There was...
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    Internal laying or tumor

    I did a brief necropsy of a hen who died with peritonitis. I caught just the day before as she seemed normal. No droopy pale comb or strange behaviour. When I cut her stomach her insides looked like a folded up octopus. I didn't have my phone so pics are from this am....what may have been cause...
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    Dosing for short acting penicillin injectable for duck

    Short and simple - have 2 Pekín with bumble foot- tried holistic. Measures now knees are swelling- how much injectable penicillin or baytril to give? Called vet at in set said oral meds not a good option for ducks and they really aren't that experienced with ducks....
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    Fowl pox?

    Just came home from a week away- found my youngest roo like this.... I didn't notice last night, this am or even first thing tonight- until I saw his bad side- in isolation not sure what good as not sure when it started- no one else that i can find tonight is showing signs. He's happy energetic...
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    seperation from flock needed for new male duck?

    I am getting a new drake for my two girls but don't know if I need to keep him seperated and if so for how long? (I do keep my birds all together in a hen house - turkeys, chickens and ducks) Will I need to worry about him flying off? My girls think they are chickens (raised with 6 chicks as...
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    It is possible to buy "sexed' poults?

    I am looking to add hens for my Guapo, my holland white Tom. He was one of four bought at a feed store last summer - out of the 4 I had three toms. Good for eating but I want babies. My girl is not really too interested in breeding. (She is kinda masculine - to the point of having a beard too-...
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    What the heck- having a rash of egg binding here- why?!

    My girls are on a mixed flock - game bird/turkey feed from Blue Seal/Kent group. Have been for well over a year almost exclusively. (DH will sometimes stop at TSC and pick up feed). Have free access to oyster shells , free range and get gleanings from the garden. After an animal attack that cost...
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    Hen found laying on back and died -

    DH heard the girl squawking saw her laying on her back- went over said she made a loud squawk shat and died. When I left this am all girls were fine. What could have happened? Not even a year-BBW-about 9 mos. no other signs of illness.
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    can't find info on impaction lower than crop

    have a Red who is impacted. Not her crop! Took her to the vet who did an X-ray found large stones in her 'tummy'. Forcing feeding with .5ml of mineral oil (was suppose to be only with feedings. Have done three 4T of 'assisted feeding; ration with 2T water. Increased water this time to 1:1 but...
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    blackhead is it a problem in NH

    I can recall seeing turkeys raised with chickens growing up in Cal. I have three poults and would like to raise them with the chickens or at least a couple of roos that are getting to be too much for my hens. Can I raise them with guineas?
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    how many roos are too many?

    I have one cochin roo who is about a year old. I got some SR speckled sussex and 3 out of the four are roos. They are about 4/5 mos old now and two are crowing. Since they have 'grown' up with the other roos and each other will they fight to the death? If so when should I look for the agression...
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    lost a girl to eggbinding and peritonitis prevention?

    Noticed my girl was a little slow moving, pecking (little pecking only - not eating) at food - did the eye dropper of liquids (electrolytes, sugar and nutri drench) tried scrambled eggs etc when I noticed she was not getting down for scratch. Did the 20 min soaks, the massage, the vent...
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    blue cohosh for treating egg binding

    Well not really an emergency or illness - so has anyone tried blue cohosh for egg binding?
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    Ok soo the broody Blueberry rejected store bought chicks

    I brought her down from her nest in the rafters and tried introducing 3 chicks. She attacked one right away last night and the other I found wandering - it managed toget itself into a corner and huddled there. (The third I removed when she attacked the other last night). So I have 14 chicks 5...
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    anybody know of hatcheries selling male birds cheap?

    I was shocked to find out what happens to the male chicks (they get ground up alive or gassed depending on hatchery). I am looking to raise meat and would love to get a flock (?) cheap. Would raising 25+/- roos in one space (all same age) cause an issue? Make no mistake I am looking for...
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    not sure if this should go here - moving a broody hen and nursey?

    Ok so my Andulasian has gone broody and I have seen/heard moving the eggs abour under her.She is nested in the insulation of the roost top. I dont want chickie pancakes so how do I politely move her? Should I move the ggs while she is down feeding? Move together? Do I need a "nursery"? Or can...
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    how to tell when a hen is broody

    my Blue Andalusian has taken to a far from reach corner on top of the roost (it is in the insulation and warm). At first she would come down when I came in the house and pick at the scratch and eat but the past couple of days she came down once and picked in hurry at grains, water and feed. Last...
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    not a good month - limping hen

    one of my RIR is the lowest in pecking order and I think that my Cochin Roo was little too ruff (big buiser) I do not see bumblefoot, looked several times, she is the only one effected, found her laying on her side with the leg extended. Does not dangle, has articulation and rom, no swelling...
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    Anyone use Oxine AH?

    How did you ensure that your chickies inhaled the mist? Can I use a dropper in the nose? HOw long before results? Can I heat the diluted solution and use steam?.
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