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  1. OzarkChooks

    Geese Questions

    I have 2 females and 1 gander. Both females are laying eggs, in the same place too. The male and one female are always together, the other female is kind of a third wheel and tends to be a loner sometimes. My question is....will geese only pair mate? I thought I had read that a gander can have a...
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    Bielefelder Leg Issues???

    I have 3 Bielefelder cockerels. 2 of them seem to have messed up legs and have been that way since chicks. They look down and almost stare at their legs when walking sometimes. They so seem to completely lack proper balance and have fallen over multiple times when trying to run. This is my first...
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    Cockerel?

    I think this almost 3 month old Ameraucana might be a cockerel. Am I right? Or is it a pullet?
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    Humane butchering?

    My husband is trying to figure out the best method to kill 2 of our geese. He has never processed geese before, only chickens. Can you use kill cones with geese? Any tips?
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    Orloff, Bielefelder & Ameraucana Cockerels

    I have an excess amount of cockerels that need new homes and flocks. 1 Bielefelder 1 Mahogany Russian Orloff 3 Black Ameraucanas All healthy, friendly boys. Only reason they have to go is because I already have too many roosters! Ameraucanas come from a private breeder. The...
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    Is this Coccidiosis?

    Ok, my husband wants to know if this is evidence of Coccidiosis in our meat birds. We literally just finished a round of corid. Do we just do another round?
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    Rooster Eye Injury

    This afternoon I noticed my rooster was standing with his eye shut. I caught him and opened his eyes, it looks like a small piece is missing. How can I treat this? Ointment? Irrigation? Will he be blind in this eye?
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    Help!!!! What is this????

    I noticed one of my young pulleys was hunched and fluffed up. So I examined her and saw this. What is this??? Is that her intestine??? I'm going to feel really dumb if it's just poop. But it does not look normal. She has been in the tractor on pasture during the day and back in the brooder at...
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    Russian Orloff Cockerel?

    8 week old Russian Orloff. I am fairly certain at this point that it's a cockerel. Am I right? Too early to tell?
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    Raising Gosling - Aggression?

    I have heard that if you pet, cuddle or hand feed goslings they will grow up to be aggressive. We have 5 right now, a couple weeks old. They follow us everywhere, sleep on my kids laps. Eat dandelions out of our hands. Have we ruined them? Will they be mean now? Full disclosure, we are...
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    CornishX Chicks...help!

    Noticed this morning that 2 of our chicks look like they have scabs. They are 1 week old. This is our first time with cornishx and my husband is the main care taker of them. Are the other chicks pecking at this one? If they are, what should we do?
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    Male or female?

    These are Ameraucanas so I know it can be harder to tell. They are 8 weeks old. Chick #1 Chick #2 You can see the size difference between #1 and #2 Chick #3 Chick #4 Here they are all together Are they all cockerels???
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    Help! What's wrong with my chicks?

    I have a group of almost 6 week old chicks. We have been having them outside in a chicken tractor in the afternoon. Then back in their brooder with a heat plate for the evening. It's been HOT. Well, there seemed to be some miscommunication between my husband and I and they ended up in the coop...
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    Sneaky Possum

    OK, we have a possum problem. We have caught it trying to sneak into the coop, but it runs off into the woods before we can get it. It is also eating eggs and I am fairly certain now that it ate one of my hens at the beginning of spring. We keep setting traps for it but it remains elusive. Any...
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    3 Week Old Chick Limping

    I was out of town for the weekend, my mom watched all the animals for us. When we got back, I noticed one of our 3 week old bielefelder chicks was limping. Not able to stand, in a crouched position. I see no visible signs of injury on the legs...at least to me. Chick does not seem lethargic...
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    What breed is this?

    I got extra chicks with my Greenfire Farm order. I know which ones are my Russian Orloffs and I know which ones are my Bielefelders. Any idea what this one is? I have two of these. I am assuming they gave me extra roosters from an autosexing breed. I could be wrong though. Any idea?
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    Beak wound

    This guy seems to get picked on a lot by the other cockerels. Noticed there appeared to be a hole in his beak. Or at least a small piece missing? Is this something that can just heal up on its own? Should I clean it out?
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    Rooster is too big? Too rough?

    We recently reintroduced our 10 month old Brahma cockerel back with the flock. There are 6 hens and 9 pullets (10 months). He has been nice to them and doesn't chase them down or do anything overtly aggressive. He usually just walks up to them and they immediately squat down. I assumed that was...
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    What ate my hen?

    I walked into the chicken pen and found her like this. There was no blood anywhere, just feathers. After I disposed of the the body I could see that she was hollowed out entirely. The pen is NOT predator proof. It was built in a rush to keep out hawks. But there are plenty of spaces small...
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    Pullet got into the cockerel pen ☹️

    One of our pullets got into the cockerel pen. They are horrible and have been meant for the soup pot for a while. I was so upset when I found her. The pullet's back looks really bad. I don't know what to do to keep it from getting infected. It's like they took all the skin off. The poor thing...
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