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    Poor Jim :(

    We live on a small lot in the city but for many months enjoyed a pair of free ranging Cayuga drakes in our yard. They slept in a dog crate in the garage at night and by day they had a pond and access to several beds of nice greens for forage. Two weeks ago, when I took the chicken coop down...
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    Speaking Dutch

    Hi there, I had a novel chicken purchasing experience the other day - we had to choose our chickens based on what we could catch from a mixed flock (ducks, too) running through a pasture. We ended up with four very calm, pretty, friendly Dutch girls and what appears to be a baby Silkie cockerel...
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    Hatch Trouble - What's Your Take?

    This is our first hatch - we put half in the 'bator and half under a hen. We've had 2 from under the hen - one had membrane stuck to the whole body when it came out and lost a lot of blood - seems to be doing okay. Now we have a second one from under the hen - pipped but no progress. This...
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    Look at this EXCITING QUESTION!!!!!!!

    I got no responses so I changed the headline. With newly hatched Australorps, does yellow on the head automatically mean male? Thanks in advance!
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    Heavy blood loss from umbilicus - Experience with this?

    We just hatched our first batch of eggs - Australorps from an Ebay seller. Half were in the 'bator and half under a broody. We got three babies from the bator and one from the hen. The one under the hen was wrapped in membrane from stem to stern. I peeled the membrane back and where it was still...
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    First Hatching Attempt - Brood or 'Bate?

    This is the first batch of fertile eggs I'm working with so I'm very open to suggestions. We have two hens that disappeared into the rafters for three weeks trying to hatch infertile eggs a while back - I am *hoping* that they will do the job for me. The Australorp eggs from a seller on Ebay...
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    Coturnix Diet & Cohousing Questions

    Due to the fact that I'm on a city lot where poultry is verboten, my 5 chooks live in a 70 square foot coop in my single car garage (along with Cayuga ducks at the moment, but that's another story). I've just brought home 15 coturnix who are currently housed in a giant stock trough in the...
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    Colloidal Silver for Chickens???

    Hi there, Just wondering if anyone has tried colloidal silver or any other form of "natural" antibiotic for treating sick chickens. I have a pullet with bumblefoot and am just looking at some alternatives.
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    Chook with Early Bumblefoot - Source for Medication???

    Hi there, Our EE pullet appears to be in the early stages of bumblefoot, so we should be able to treat it with antibiotics. My question is, where can I order Lincomycin or Doxycycline? Our local feed store has bupkus for medicines. Thanks.
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    Happy News For Camille, Sad News For Dot

    I posted on Thursday evening, I believe, about our little runt Camille. Camille is still a "special needs" chick as she doesn't get around the way the others do, but she eats like a champ and has no problem pecking back at the bully of the brooder. Last night, I noticed that while we had been...
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    HELP - Runt is struggling. UPDATE: Camille and Little Dot

    drank earlier not pasted up perked up earlier then collapsed in brooder eyes now closed (typing with one hand)
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    Doing the USPS Dance

    I ordered 11 bantam Araucana chicks from Meyer Hatchery that were shipped out the day before yesterday. They were scanned in Cleveland on Tuesday night at 7:30. Here's the sketchy part - I put in a change of address form a couple of weeks ago as I've finally purchased a house and forgot to...
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    Sneezing, Discharge, Funny Poops in 10 Week Olds

    My two birds are doing well otherwise, behaving normally, eating well, etc. but sneeze occasionally, have a little upper respiratory discharge (clear) and their poops are a little watery and off color (more dark than usual). At first, the diarrhea was attributed to giving them too much spinach...
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    UPDATE: Beloved "Rooster" We Got Rid of Is an OEGB *PULLET* - RESCUE?!

    I had finally decided that our standard Barred Plymouth pullets needed to be rehomed, bit the bullet and posted on Craig's List, hoping to find a new home. The responses were not very solid, so I called the feed store, who said they would take them. I was loading up the girls to go when our...
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    pushy BR girls are starving my bantam roo :/

    Hi there, I'm new to chickens and things have gone pretty smoothly up until now. My 8-week-old EE bantam rooster is smaller than the EE pullet I brought him home with. This is because the trio of BR pullets (about 6 weeks old) are big and pushy and don't mind shoving him out of the way at the...
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    Rooster Reality Check Needed by City Chicken Gal

    Of my five little 2-3 week old dearies, one is a bantam rooster. He, of course, is the tamest and (no surprise) my favorite. We're waiting on a house deal to go through and once we're moved, I'm planning to build the coop in the garage with a dog door out to the chicken run. There's nothing in...
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    Awwwwww.

    I had such a nice treat today. I was sitting at the café table on our screened-in front porch checking my email and my little 4-week-old bantam rooster (I think he's an EE) flew all the way over and landed on my keyboard to say hello - not once but twice! The other chicks want nothing to do...
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    OT: Treatment of Women In Hardware Stores (Yes, this is a Rant)

    I apologize in advance as I know that this will doubtless irritate someone but this is my experience and I'm sure it's not unique. I just returned from spending an hour at the hardware store finding flooring, hardware and lumber to build a temporary coop for my trio of BR and my EE banties...
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    NAIS and Buying From Major Hatcheries

    Hi there, I'm wondering if receipt of chicks or fertile eggs from major hatcheries means that any birds ordered have RFIDs and our addresses are then put on file with NAIS? Does anyone know about this? Thanks.
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    Urban Flock with a LOUD Chick

    Hi there, I have five chicks (2 3-week-old mixed bantams and 3 10-day-old BR pullets) in a brooder on my locked screened-in front porch. One of the BR pullets is loud, so loud that I'm concerned she'll disturb the neighbors (she definitely disturbs US!). :o She doesn't holler for any...
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