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    Paralysed Silkie???

    Hi all, I have a silkie hen around the age of two who started showing signs of being paralysed last week. It only appears to be in one leg so she is still able to run and walk she is just a bit wobbly. She eats and drinks like normal but she does appear a bit skinny. She also looks a bit scraggy...
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    Mother Hen With Parasites

    Hello, today my hen hatched her first ever chick! But the problem I have is that she appears to have some lice. I only noticed the other day and I am wondering if it is safe to put on while she is still sitting on the chick? Or wether it would be okay to wait until she is out of the nesting box...
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    Will One Snake Keep The Others Away?

    Hello! Last night while we went to put the chickens and ducks away we noticed that the ducks were standing outside the doorway of the coop and looking a bit stressed. So when we looked inside we noticed a big diamond python slithering on the ground off the coop underneath where the chickens are...
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    Chicken with runny nose

    Hello, I have a silkie pullet and a couple off weeks ago I noticed she started sneezing a lot. I decided to just leave it for a while and see if it fixes itself but now when I look closely her nose looks really watery and sometimes almost blocked. When she clucks it sounds a bit raspy as well...
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    What causes developing fertile eggs to die?

    Hello, I have recently had a couple of ducklings hatch after incubating some fertile eggs. Four weeks ago I incubated 9 duck eggs (Pekin and Khaki campbell), after a week I candled them and 7 out of the 9 had started developing. Once a week I would candle the eggs. I candled them for the last...
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    Roosters or hens?

    Hello! 6 weeks ago I hatched 4 little chicks. I am just wondering what gender they could be? I’m think 1, 2 and 3 are roosters😬? (I can get better photos if that helps) Thanks! 1. 2. 3 4.
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    Broken feathers before a show?!

    I have a slight problem and I am hoping that there is a way to fix it in time. Next weekend I have my hens first Ag show and I have noticed that tips of the top of her feathers on her back have chipped off. Because she is a laced wyandotte its really noticeable, and so it appears that there is a...
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    When to help assist a hatch

    Hi, I have a chick who must have started to hatch sometime during the night. It has finished unzipping and started to try and get out of the egg. Is he/she okay? I don’t know how long it has been like this? Is it just tired? I can still see it breathing so it is alive. It tries to struggle out...
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    Will eggs still hatch?

    Hey, this morning we have our first baby quail which has hatched from our incubator! The problem is that it had its leg stuck and so we had to help it get free which caused us to have to of opened the incubator. None of the other eggs have hatched yet and we are hoping that opening the incubator...
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    Just One Duck?

    Hi everyone, Unfortunately my drake past away this morning💕😢, we still have our duck luckily but I am just wondering what i should do now. I have heard that ducks can't live alone, I can't go looking for another duck at the moment because of all the rain we have been having so i am hoping that...
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    Show worthy?

    Hello! I have a little silver laced Wyandotte hen which I would love to show! I’m just wondering if she would be a good hen to try and show? She lets me pick her up and she is pretty calm around new environments. She also travelled around half an hour in a pet crate to get to my house and the...
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    Fertile eggs from sibling ducks?

    I have 2 ducks, a male and a female. My male drake has recently started mating the female duck. The problem is that they are siblings?? Would I be able to try and incubate their eggs? Or would that be too risky? Help would be appreciate!!
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    Missing feathers?!

    Hello, I have 5 chickens and 3 of them seem to have a problem with their feathers. I’ve had 4 of them since April 2020 and we got them from a farm which had been selling chickens for a while. When we first got 6 of them we but weren’t given a proper look of what they were like. (we were new to...
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    Duck Egg???

    Recently I have been finding eggs on the ground of my chicken coop? I have a female duck along with a drake which are almost 6 months old, I also have 5 other hens. I don‘t know whether it‘s my duck which has recently started laying eggs or if it’s just a chicken which is laying eggs on the...
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    Thoughts on my duck’s condition for showing?

    I have a silver appleyard around the age of 6 months old, her name is ‘Monte’. I have thoughts about taking her to a couple of shows to see how she goes. Just wondering if you have any thoughts about her condition and how well she might do in a show? I would also appreciate any tips on showing...
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    Getting show ready?!

    I am new to showing and in need of some help. I have a pure bred Silver Laced Wyandotte hen which I got last year, she is amost 2 years old. I have a couple of questions, the first one is that she keeps flying over the fences. We have 4 other chickens and 2 ducks which all except one (which I...
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