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    Large Wound care and at-home surgery: anecdotes.

    I am not a veterinarian. Real veterinarian advice should always take precedence over this. I do not advise doing at-home surgery on your bird, as the suffering is great and the risks of infection and stress-death is high. Always go to a vet if you can. In my situation, local emergency vets...
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    Training Chickens For Extensive Handling - Resources?

    I’m looking for resources/guides on SPECIFIC steps I can do, to train my young chickens to be EXTREMELY docile for extensive handling. If you have any links to good guides, or book recommendations, I’d appreciate it I want to be able to: Manually extend their wings to the full length Pick...
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    Looking for Gene info for the Alula / Bastard Wing / Carpal Spur.

    I’d like to start a breeding project that focuses on making a strain of chickens with large Alulas - the “thumb” of the wing. (Also called a ‘bastard wing’ on some species, when feathered well) My focus would be on making the whole structure (bones, musculature, and spur) bigger and...
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    Hello from Ellis County, Tx.

    I grew up on a horse farm and helped raise loads of chickens as a kid. After some time in city life and suburbia, I'm going back to my roots & starting a lil homestead out in the country. As of this introduction, I have the building materials for a coop and zero chickens, but I also just moved...
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