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    Possibly sick Chicken, several questions

    One of my Buff Orps (10 months old) seemed fine this morning but this evening my husband notices she is sluggish and won't eat. He's been feeding them bread in the afternoon when he gets home from work and today she won't any and was hiding under a bush. I went out and had a look, not that I'm...
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    Re-introducing previously injured chicken

    Ok, so we have a girl who was attacked by ???? on the 4th and had a nasty wound on her neck. I followed my general instincts about such injuries and the advice given from other chicken lovers and she's healed faster than I ever could have imagined. She's not perfect but the wound is totally...
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    Another Wound Care/Injured Chicken Question

    My 7 mo old girl Lacey was attacked by ??? on the 4th leaving a wound on her neck where the skin all the way down to muscle was basically peeled up from almost the base of her neck to almost the base of her skull. I flushed with water and have been trying to continue to do so daily and applying...
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    Huge wound on neck, what now?

    So it's about 2am here and I had to get up and let the dog out to potty. Standing on the back porch I notice that one of the girls is on top of her coop rather than IN her coop. My husband is the one who took care of the birds this evening and he fed, watered, and locked them in for the night...
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    What is a better idea?

    Adult or Duckling for our lone duck? I have no idea how old exactly she is but I guess she is about a year since I'm pretty sure she was an Easter duckling, we've had her about a month now and we love her. We want to do right by her and get her a friend. I'm having a harder time getting ahold of...
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    A question about expanding and upgrading new coop

    So I've been convinced by some of the fine folks here that my new coop could be better To whoever told me in my first thread that I'd be speaking a new "foul language" trying to hay and dropping off a double wire floor, yes you are right. I'm also finding that I'm kind of attached to my...
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    Can I give Daisy a bath... should I ?

    Since being confined to our backyard Daisy isn't getting to play in a pond. We have a kiddie pool but it's gigantic and we need to get a smaller one, hopefully this weekend! In the meantime her feathers feel for lack of a better word dry. Like human hair would feel dry and it feels like there is...
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    Built our first coop, how'd we do?

    This past weekend my husband built our chicken house, our chicks are about 7 weeks old. We have 6 of them but I'm thinking perhaps we need to cut that number down to four? We'll see. So far so good, they like it. They free range all afternoon into the evening when it gets dark and then I put...
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    Will spraying the yard hurt my chickens?

    We normally spray our yard for fleas a couple of times a year. We've used various sprays but they all say on the label that they are safe for people and pets once the grass is dry. They also kill other bugs but mostly we care about the fleas. I work from home as a groomer and trainer and...
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    What age can you start to confirm sex?

    Sorry if this is a dumb question lol. I probably have a lot of those Anyway we have chicks that are I think about 6/7 weeks old now. I have it written down on my calender exactly when we got them but I don't have that handy just now so I'm thinking it's been about 6 weeks. We bought all pullets...
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    Neighbor said she wants to take Daisy :/

    Daisy Duck is ours by accident. Just to recap the neighbor two houses down had her and moved away leaving her. Supposedly the new people moving into that house had agreed to take care of Daisy but I'm doubtful. They've been moved in for a whole week now and have yet to so much as inquire about...
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    Does it matter what you make a nest box out of ?

    My husband kept chickens as a child and he apparently used old coke crates from a store his dad worked at and his chickens laid fine. He is busy building our chicken house as we speak but hasn't built actual nest boxes into the design. I was wondering if a whole box with a roof and all was...
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    Is this ok for nighttime confinement and temp question?

    I've put our duck friend Daisy into a kennel in my garage for the night. This is the second night in a row. She seemed comfy last night and laid an egg, which made me weirdly excited lol. I wasn't sure she ever laid eggs because I had never seen one. Anyway, so that night's confinement and egg...
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    Accidental new duck owner

    Well the story goes that our neighbor a couple houses down bought a duck last easter for their kids. It lived in their front yard where they had a little fish decorative fish pond. No pen or anything totally free range duck it could occasionally be found in other yards but mostly just theirs...
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    Is Cedar ok to use for bedding?

    I got a surprise today, in the form of 18 baby chicks. My mother in law called furious that we had not purchased her chickens yet and would not accept that it was not really the right time of year and they would have to be ordered. The feedstore had a few older chickens but no telling if they...
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    Any experiences with Healthy Chicks and More

    http://www.healthychicksandmore.com/ Just curious if anyone had any experience with these folks, it's one of the places we've decided is a possibility for us to order from. We are by no means finished checking places out but so far this one is on the list. And they are advertising free...
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    Hi to you all from soon to be chicken lover (maybe)

    Hi, Hi, I am in NW Florida and my husband and I are thinking of adding a few chickens to family in the hopes of collecting fresh eggs. We had a baby 11 month ago after a very difficult pregnancy and have become more aware of 1) how much $$ we spend and ways to save pennies here and there and...
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