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    Marion County, GA— 1 year old Buff Orp. Roo

    1yr old Lavender Orpington roo, free to a good home. His name is Elvis. He was great for the first 8 months, and is still pretty tame as far as roosters go, but is having a moody teenage phase that makes it inconvenient to care for my other birds. Combined with a recent predation issue, I can’t...
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    Broody leaving the nest during the day

    my broody duck has a nest of thirteen eggs, some up to two weeks old almost, and she's started sitting on the nest... but only in the mornings. She'll sit it at night and in the cold portion of the morning, sometimes up until i come home from school, but in the warm portion of the afternoon...
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    Keeping cornish x to adulthood?

    They seem to have so much personality but the way that they're bred and kept in commercial arrangements is downright awful. Is there a way I could get a few cornish x or other broiler pullets and raise them so that they're not as uh... misshapen, for lack of a better word? I recall reading a...
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    when to introduce babies to adults?

    I have some chicks and ducklings, all four weeks old born on the same day, and I'd like to know when I should officially introduce them to my adult birds. They've seen each other through chicken wire for two weeks now and neither of my two adult ducks have shown any aggression, nor have they...
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    Nesting boxes UNDER roost? Just brainstorming.

    hi all. I just moved my three-week-old girls out to their official chicken house because they outgrew their brooder. They still have heat lamps, don't worry! I positioned their roost and am thinking about nesting boxes; I wanted something easy to clean that wouldn't rot or be susceptible to...
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    Minimum Effort Farms

    The thread name is an inside joke between me and my dad. We've probably since upgraded from "minimum effort" to "I'm trying my best", but that isn't as funny to me. Just made the thread to chronicle the way I'm effectively starting my flock over - with chickens, this time! :D I used to only...
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    Constipated Chick!! :(

    I have a ten-day-old chick and she’s been constipated all day. I’ve gotten her to drink a little bit of water, put a few drops of oil in her beak and one around her vent to lubricate the system, but minimal progress has been made. I gave her a “bath” in warm water, and a little came out at that...
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    Duckling growing with tilted beak?

    Just as the title says. Received a shipment of eleven ducklings about three days ago and they’re i believe five or six days old now. All the rest are doing fine and technically so is this one, but her beak looks weird. Still eating and drinking fine but I’m worried it will get worse as she...
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    "Hatchery Choice" Egg Layers - Breed Guesses

    howdy!! this morning we picked up my order of chicks from the post office, along with my order of ducklings. They were a day late and a bit dehydrated, but otherwise active and healthy. We know the sexes and breeds of the ducklings because the hatchery (Metzer Farms, cannot recommend them...
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    (non-emergency) Bumblefoot not worsening, but not fully recovered either

    Hi all! me again. Long time no see. So I have a female (jumbo?) pekin named Mymble. She's a lovely duck, she lays eggs for us almost every day and she's the sweetest bird you'll ever meet. But she's also very heavy, and this leaves her susceptible to ailments of the feet and legs, like...
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    Cross-Country Flock Move + Acclimation? How will they fare?

    In an unexpected turn of events, I will have to move my ducks from a place where the temperatures are typically very cool, it’s moist, and grassy (duck heaven!!) to a place across the country where it tends to be quite warm, the yard is sandy with some instance of cacti growing (yikes) and not a...
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    Goose sexing?

    I have two what I believe to be young Embden geese (12 weeks ish). They're all white, except for one which has a black/grey spot on one side near its' butt, and the other which has some brown in its' tail feathers, but at a glance they're totally white. But that's just me guessing based on...
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    Hello All!

    I've been lurking on this forum for quite some time in reference to a small flock I'm overseeing at my family's house and I think it's finally time to take the plunge... so. Hello! I'm Nastya (nahst-yuh). I oversee two flocks, one my own, and one that belongs to my parents. My flock is comprised...
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