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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    I have just dealt with my third iteration of poisoning from buttercups (Ranunculus) in two years, also the most serious so far since I had an almost fully paralyzed, barely breathing hen in my arms for over an hour through the worst of it. I haven't been letting my birds free range lately due to...
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    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    I have two black olive eggers that are nearly two years old now and never molted over the fall/winter. Same age but unrelated siblings all molted by February and did full molts (those siblings were supposed to be olive eggers too and were in the same bin, but they lay regular brown eggs). For a...
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    White livestock safe paint turned pink

    I just redid the lid on an old chick tractor / integration pen type thing I built some time ago. Panels in the middle and frame under it are new, all the rest is years old. The new wood needed paint so I gave the whole top a fresh coat as well, old panels included. Today the new panels have...
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    Chick in egg - trying to decide cull or not

    A broody of mine is hatching eggs right now. One of them she kept kind of pushing to the edge the last couple days so I think she knew something was wrong, although she didn’t outrightly discard it. When everyone else was pipped and starting to zip and making noise, the one egg was quiet. I...
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    Not a dot, not a bullseye...?

    So I know that a dot or otherwise amorphous solid blob means unfertilized, and a clear bullseye means fertilized. I've seen many examples of both from my flock. But, for lack of a better way to put it, what does the appearance of the Greek letter Theta mean? I've seen it more than once from the...
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    Brinsea Maxi 24 Ex fan whine

    I just got a Brinsea Maxi 24 and set it up to make sure everything was working. The fan is unfortunately producing a fairly high-pitched whine that is actually giving me a headache when I'm in the room with it. The only stuff I could find quickly about noise from this type of incubator was more...
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    Blood ring / dead egg?

    This is from day 14. Dot in the middle has been the same size for 2 days now. Is it showing the infamous blood ring? I have never seen one before first hand, so I wanted to get confirmation from more experienced folks before removing it... I was really hoping this particular one would make...
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    Impaction from hulled sunflower seeds

    As the title says, I have a hen that somehow ended up with a serious gut impaction consisting of hulled sunflower seeds / sunflower hearts. The reason I'm not posting in the emergincies forum is that she's actually doing great right now - the crisis time is over, treatment is well along, she's...
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    Excessive calcium deposits on eggs

    I have a cochin pullet about 9 months old who started laying 2-3 weeks ago. Aside from her first couple of eggs which were pretty normal, all of her subsequent eggs look like this one, with really excessive calcium deposits. I've seen a bit of extra calcium deposits on plenty of eggs before due...
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    Hard fall molt after summer broody molt

    I have a 2.5 year old hen who was broody earlier in the year and raised some chicks for me. As she was wrapping up momma duties with those chicks, she had a moderate molt in late June / early July. When I've had broodies do this before, that was it - no hard fall/winter molt or at most a very...
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    Designing and 3D printing feeders & accessories

    I just got a PLA filament printer and have started designing and making things I've wished I had for my chickens - specifically feeder-related things where I've found a distinct lack of simultaneous weather protection and compatibility with mature, standard-size roosters. I realize a lot of...
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    DE users: how often do you reapply outside?

    I have been using food grade DE for premesis parasite control in large outdoor spaces where things like permethrin and elector psp just don’t seem to work. I’m having difficulty finding the right criteria or timeline for reapplication outdoors though. I don’t want to waste it or make a dusty...
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    Liability with non-malicious trespassers in NY

    I hope this is the right part of the foram to ask about this...I'm trying to figure out what sinage and/or other reasonable precautions to take if trespassing of the mostly ignorant variety becomes a more frequent occurrence on my property, since I have both a livestock guardian dog and roosters...
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    Traction/grip tape can cause bumblefoot

    Right to the point as in the title: I've learned the hard way that traction/grip tape can cause serious bumblefoot eventually. The problematic part of the tape is a clear plastic layer that, in at least the brands I used, becomes brittle when cold and likes to curl when the black coating is worn...
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    Wondering whether to separate hen from chicks

    I gave a broody hen some chicks about 4.5 weeks ago and she has mothered them well. However, she's rapidly un-broodying: the molt, the comb is almost fully back up, increasingly making regular hen noises, sharing food less, and as of today no longer doing the broody feather puff at other...
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    Giant cochin chicks - slow/fast feathering?

    These partridge giant cochin chicks are 2 weeks old today with two phenotypes I've labeled in the photo. The "A" chicks have big wings and a good tail coming in. The "B" chicks have very stubby wings and no sign at all of tail feathers coming in, not even pin feathers - still just fuzz on those...
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    Avoiding Future Gut Impaction

    I have a hen that is currently recovering from a very bad gut impaction. This was NOT a crop impaction, which is the main thing that there's a lot of info for online - really not easy to find info on gizzard or intestinal impactions for birds by comparison. My hen's impaction definitely started...
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    Tools to (lightly) trim rooster spurs

    What is the best tool to quickly/efficiently and also safely take of small amounts from the end of the spur, such as 1/4in or a bit more? I have nail trimmers for my 80lb dog, but her nails seem softer than the spurs and I'm worried the timmers might crack the spur. Normally I trust...
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    Nest box curtain material

    I need to add curtains to at least a one of my wooden nest boxes pretty quickly since I have two pullets who are becoming increasingly fixated on wanting to get into very dark nooks rather than going into my mostly-open-front nest boxes. 7 hens and 5 other pullets are happy with my nest box...
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    A northern fowl mite who-dun-it

    I have a rooster that recently got northern fowl mites; I am rigorous with physical inspections including butt inspections every 1-2 days on all my birds, so I caught it probably as fast as was reasonably possible and am treating aggressively with permethrin, and it hasn't spread to other birds...
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