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    Please help, chickens eating cigarette butts

    I know this sounds ridiculous and foolish and like I don't pay attention to my animals, but I just found out that my mother and sister who smoke throw their cigarette butts on the ground. I don't know if my ducks, geese or chickens have been eating them but it's only been recently that they've...
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    Natural peacock incubation

    My peahen started laying and hoarding her eggs to start up a nest, but she has 9 eggs now, how many will she lay until she will actually sit on them?
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    Roll out nest box designs

    I've been having a big issue with something eating my eggs lately, cracking a little hole in the egg and eating some of it then leaving the rest. I don't know if a mouse could do something like that or if it's the multiple grackles that have shown up this year. Either way I've wanted roll out...
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    Meet the new members of my flock!

    So I went to an auction this Saturday and came back with a few more feathered friends than I expected WHOOPS! All I had wanted were a few cuckoo maran chicks that had been shipped up from Texas, but nooo, dad came back with 8 count em EIGHT cuckoo maran chicks 5 cuckoo maran x ameraucana...
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    Why are my Sebs laying in December?

    I live in Alberta, where it's freezing all the way until the end of March, and generally my geese don't start laying until around then, when it starts to warm up. But last week, just as we had gotten a cold snap, I found an egg, and so far, even in -30 temps, I've found 5 eggs. They're two years...
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    Peachick can't walk! Help???

    So for the first time ever, I'm hatching peachicks from my peacocks. So far out of seven eggs I've had four, and this morning another one hatched. I wasn't expecting it cause I thought his egg was a dud but my sister woke up this morning and found him 'break dancing' in the bator. He's cute as a...
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    Male Peacock seems hurt, any help?

    I've been letting my peacocks out to free range with my supervision on the weekends lately but last night the wieners (Bijou and Jehan) wouldn't get back in their blasted pen! They settled down on my roof for the night. I've seen them up there before. Flying and walking around and having fun but...
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    Some Pictures to be Proud of!

    Share pictures of your pets, your yard, your garden. What you're proud of!  These are just some pictures from around my place today :) Funky feathers  One big goosing family. From left to right, in front with the crest is Burger Butt,  Toasty, Fries With That, Willy (daddy), Itty, and...
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    African geese with funky feathers?

    I have 2 young African geese. Fed normally, raised normally, grew normally but now when they feathered out they have little flufs of feathers on the top of their heads. There daddy is a dewlap African and there mommy is just African. Any answers to why they're like that?
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    How to keep Japanese Quail?

    I don't have the quail yet but I hope to soon. I just want to be prepared. I have a shelving unit that's 3 feet across, 2 feet wide and at least 6 feet tall, it has three shelves spaced at least 3 feet apart. I want to put pans on the existing shelves then wire over the pans that the quail could...
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    The Real Question, to or not to Replace Your Flock

    I have 6 leghorns which when I got them, were old already, now their egg production has dropped, I'll get maybe 3 eggs a day from all my girls. Should I or should I not replenish my flock? Sell them at an up coming auction sale and just buy Easter Eggers. They also look pretty grubby because...
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    Which Breed of Chicken has...?

    Dark brown eggs, I want a chicken breed that lays dark brown eggs or any differently colored eggs for that matter. Any suggestions would help :) Thank you
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    Goose can't walk :c

    My goose can't walk. She's 22 pounds of embden goose. I got her yesterday and she was walking fine. I woke up and she couldn't walk. I'm so worried. Her feet look fine, and she's healthy. I'm just worried. Help?
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    Sick chickens but don't know what, HELP!?

    So I'll give you a list of symptoms, how long it's been happening, what I'm feeding them etc.  -6 White Leghorn hens -Got them in January -Fed chicken scratch and layer feed -VERY scruffy looking, dirty looking, feathers missing on a few  -Some have kind of swollen crops -White stuff caked...
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    Gosling hatching questions, help!

    On Friday I had my second gosling pup and so far he's hatched pretty well, but I'm afraid that just like his brother he will die. His brother had the yplk wrapped around his foot, I have never seen nor heard of this before so I was scared poopless. Just as I had come up with a plan to tie off...
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    Wryneck Treatment?

    I need to know everything and fast! Busy busy busy, little guy is a Peking Runner cross, 3 and a half weeks old, pretty sure has wryneck, eats like a horse but has a twisted neck without and injury or anything, he's had it for about 4 days. 1) I've heard you can treat it with Vitamen E and...
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    Everyone say hello to Edwin and Georgia the sebastapol goslings!

    As I type this they are sleeping on my belly, I'm so glad I have them <3
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    How to Free Range Chickens?

    I have 9 chickens and I would love so much to let them free range but I'm terrified to let the run free. I have 2 big dogs and my neighbors have another big one and a small Russell. The dogs chase away all birds of pray but I'm worried about my dogs hurting the chickens actually. I let my ducks...
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    Boy or Girl?

    I got a Chinese goose this winter, the people I bought 'Q-Bert' from didn't know the gender and because of Quies 'hump' I thought it was a boy. Today a found a MASSIVE egg. I don't think it's a double yolk and it don't have the shape or feel of a duck eggs (I keep Q-Bert with the ducks). Is...
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    Duckling not eating?

    My duckling (first hatchling) is not eating. She's 5 days old and has only pooped about 7 times that I know of, each green like new born ducky poop. She's not been eating today, only drinking a bit and isn't running around, she's also sitting funny with her bum high up in the air. Her tummy...
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