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    Ants swarming chickens head and neck !!

    I usually only post when there’s a problem with my flock that I can’t figure out how to fix. My younger brother noticed ants swarming our chicken’s head today. She was flopped over against the side of the coop and ants were swarming all over her feathers and neck and face. At first I thought...
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    Broody Hen Incubates Eggs

    One of our chickens is broody, so my family did something we’ve never done before, and we got some fertile trader jose eggs for her to sit on. now, she is currently in a big wooden box that we’ve used to brood our birds before. wood shaving nest with the eggs in the corner, she’s always sitting...
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    Is this duck egg fertile?

    i recently made a post about a duck egg i found on uc davis campus. so i have been incubating the egg for 7 days now, a week, and based on duck egg incubation progression charts i’ve seen there should be some noticeable veins by now. i cant really see anything, the egg looks like this when...
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    Abandoned egg found on UC Davis Campus

    I found a mystery egg on UC Davis campus, I’m fairly sure it’s a duck egg. I was recently at the UC Davis campus because my class was going on a camping trip and we stopped at a park/garden area for lunch on the campus. I noticed a lot of smashed and crushed white eggs along the paths in this...
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    Bloody falling apart eyeball, god help me

    update of wry neck chicken, she can walk around but still has the wry neck sometimes fumbles over. the otherday i noticed a bump like something in her eye, so i get a closer look kinding pulling at it thinking it’s like a bit of strawberry i just fed the chickens and i noticed, jeez, it’s a...
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    duck food recommendations & advice needed

    i’ve got two almost 9 week old ducks meaning i’ll be moving them outside and switching them over to a 13-14% protein feed since their adolescent now. I can’t find any good duck feed online so if anyone have any recommendations that’d be nice, preferably something i can order online. another...
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    Ducks afraid of people?

    i’ve got two about 5 week old ducklings and their completely scared of people. if anyone in my household tries to approach them, anywhere near them within 3 feet, all hell breaks loose. they’ll scramble around and run to the back of their brooder and scream super loudly. if their hungry and you...
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    Possible wry neck has suddenly developed on old chicken

    i have made a post about our chicken midnight before, her leg had stopped working and crumpled up and she couldn’t walk and then next thing you know she’s fine. she even looks dead and i honestly don’t know how she’s still alive. anyways, this time around i open our coop grabbing some eggs, our...
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    can i move my duckling’s brooder outside?

    i have two 4 1/2 week old ducklings currently in their brooder with a temp of 70 degrees. the brooder is currently located in our tuff shed and i was wondering if it’s safe to move the brooder outside into our chicken coop, but still keeping the duckling in the brooder with their heat lamp. i...
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    duckling won’t stop shivering

    i have two ducklings about 3 weeks old now, and I usually give them swim time. when they were tiny we’d do it in our sink so the water was warm, then we moved to a bucket in our shower. ducklings grow surprisingly fast and now we can’t really do swim time indoors anymore so were doing it outside...
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    When do I lower the protein for my ducklings?

    i have 2 ducklings, both 2 weeks old now. we bought a 22% protein starter grower for them and they’ve been eating it for the past 2 weeks. I read that ducklings need 18-20% protein (22% was fine for me) for the first 2 weeks and then at 3-8 weeks they need to switch over to feed with a protein...
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    Chicken non stop sneezing and trouble breathing

    our americana, pudding, has been sneezing non stop straight for almost ten minutes now. she’s some what stopped now but she’s still doing it just with longer gaps between sneezes. she seems active and it feisty when i was checking her other symptoms. so far it’s just the sneezing, some mouth...
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    Duckling feed

    I’m getting ducklings and they’re arriving in week and so we’re preparing the brooder and getting supplies, including food. i was going to do chick feed and mix it with brewers yeast but when looking for brewers yeast on amazon i found some duckling starter, perfect! problem is that it’s 22%...
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    Americana spits up foggy light brown substance!

    Our americana, Pudding, spat up this weird foggy brown substance today. i went into the coop today to check on a previously injured chicken who miraculously healed suddenly and i had gone to pick Pudding up while in there. i’m holding her on my side and she suddenly just drools out this foggy...
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    Quail eggs hatching on day 24

    i’m currently incubating some quail eggs for the 4th time. 1st try was success, the rest weren’t, and now i’m doing it again. every time we hatched quails, they either poked a hole or completely got out all on days 23-24. which i thoguht was normal bc i had read it was 25 days, which i’m glad i...
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    Chicken foot has gone limp, she can’t use it!

    i have a chicken who likes to roost and hangout in the dirt alot. although i’m starting to think it was because she couldn’t move around very much. i noticed her behind the food dispenser one wing out and one leg out, laying there, alive though. i picked her up and place into the middle of the...
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    Chicken’s leg has gone limp and she can’t walk

    i have a chicken who likes to roost and hangout in the dirt alot. although i’m starting to think it wasn’t because she loved it. i noticed her behind the food dispenser one wing out and one leg out, laying there, alive though. i picked her up and place into the middle of the coop, just kinda...
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    Will a muscovy duck fly away?

    I wanna get some ducks and I want to get a quiet breed. I want to get some Muscovey's since they're quiet breeds but apparently, they're also good flyers, if I get one will it fly away? Has anyone else had issues with their Muscovey's and flying?
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    Anyone know of any duck vets in San Jose

    I may or may not be getting a duck and I want to be prepared when it comes to medical care. Our current vet is not seeing birds currently, including ducks. Does anyone know of any veterinary clinics that see and treat ducks in or near San Jose?
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    Can my quail breath in the homemade incubator?

    we’ve got a homemade incubator which has successfully worked in the past. i read somewhere that you leave the quails in the incubator for the first 24 hours (idk if this is true or not, if someone could clarify that’d be nice), but the first time we hatched a quail i didn’t know if she could...
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