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    Broody duck just hatched one duckling - care advice?

    Hi - I have a duck who has been broody and just hatched a duckling this morning. She has one more egg so that may hatch too. She made her nest outside, so I'm wondering how to help her care for her babies. Should I let them stay outside in this nest? Try to get them into a coop? Our existing...
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    what kind of electric fence?

    I have had 2 ducks and 3 chickens eaten by a predator (I think it's a fox, raccoon, or a weasel. I thought that maybe electric fence would keep it out, so I was wondering if solar powered or a/c would work better
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    How to tell layers from non-layers

    Hi - I saw somewhere (in a book? online?) some pictures that showed how to tell whether an older hen is still laying. It had to do with the tail position, but I can't find the pictures now. We have a mixed-age flock and a friend is giving away some of hers, and I'd like not to be stuck with a...
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    not reaccepted hen

    I had a hen that got bad frostbite, and it had to be kept inside for a while to regrow its comb. her comb is now fine, but when I tried to put her back with the other hens, they all attacked her. By the time I got her out she was bleeding on her wattle. right now she is in the barn, and I don't...
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    sick chick

    I have a Rhode Island Red chick with poop stuck on its butt, and it hasn't pooped since I found it with the poop on its butt. I separated it from the other chicks, washed it off, and I am drying it off with a light, but it keeps collapsing. I couldn't get it to eat anything, and I tried egg yolk.
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    Limping chicken

    One of my RIRs has developed a strange walk - she looks like John Cleese doing his funny walks on Monty Python. Doesn't seem to want to put one foot down. We examined her feet and legs and find no swelling, scabs, growths, redness. She doesn't seem in pain when the leg is touched or...
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