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  1. Paintedhorsegirl

    Pilgrim geese

    I am looking for either a pair of pilgrims, goslings or hatching eggs. Please message me if you can help, thank you.
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    Im thinking one of my hens has a respiratory infection.....

    About 5 days ago I noticed one of my hens didnt leave the coop all day, she stayed under the heating lamp. The next day the same and so I figured she must not be feeling well, had no symptoms except seeming tired and cold. I moved her in to my house in a crate, gave her some vitamin water and...
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    USDA registration?

    How do I go about getting a USDA registration #? I need one in order to register my farm for Myotonic goats? Ive googled it and cant figure it out.....I feel like Im missing something..
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    Sick Silkie Roo! HELP!

    Yesterday morning when I went out to do my chores I opened my silkie pen to find my silkie roo face down. I thought for sure he was dead but I picked him up and he is very much alive, I gave him electrolytes with a dropper. then I had to got to work, i thought for sure he was going to be gone by...
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    Hatch due friday the 17th!

    Im going into Lockdown tomorrow with my guinea eggs, lets hope they do better than my last hatch attempt. This is my first attempt at hatching guineas, any suggestions....?
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    New to geese and have questions....

    I am new to geese, i have just one baby gosling thats a couple weeks old. I have some baby pilgrims on the way. I got this little gosling because I was at a poultry swap and it was the only one. The farmer said someone bought all the others, Im thinking how awful to buy all the others and...
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    Chicken math, Got the best of me!

    Its kind of crazy but at a local farm store, when they get their orders of chicks in they give everyone 2 days to pick them up and then they sell the rest to the public at a discounted price. The store opens at 7a.m. and apparently last year people were lined up at the door by 6:30 to get these...
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    To help or not help a zipped egg

    I have an egg that zipped about 9 hours ago, give or take..but no progress..Should I help it hatch or leave it? Any advise welcomed
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    What breed would you reccomend?

    I am looking into getting some goslings to raise with my flock. I am wondering what breed do you think is the best and why? Right now Im leaning towards embdens or pilgrims, but Ive noticed pilgrims are are hard to find..
  10. Paintedhorsegirl

    Eggs disappearing....

    For about a week now I havent been getting many eggs, couldnt figure out why...then i noticed the remains of a 2 eggs...and the same again yesterday...It seems one of my hens are breaking the eggs and eating them before I get to pick them....how can I break this habit? Ive been told before...
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    Lockdown begins tonight! so excited!

    Day 18 tomorrow, so Im going into lockdown tonight...Im so excited! I really hope I have a good hatch This will be my first time with frizzle chicks, I really really hope its a good hatch...Im going to be so bummed if they dont hatch....
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    Hatch date May 17! anybody else?

    I have 24 frizzle eggs in the incubator due to hatch on tuesday the 17th...This is only my second time incubating and so Im really excited and nervous at the same time...I really hope the hatch!
  13. Paintedhorsegirl

    baby chick with messed up feet

    I got 5 new chicks about a week ago. I had ordered them through my pet chicken, i will never do that again. I had more but they died. This little chick has really messed up feet, Ive never seen anything like it. Im not sure what to do. She/he seems to get around ok and is eating and growing but...
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    1 week old chicks with crusty butts!

    What can I do to help my chicks? 4 out of 5 of them seem to have crusty buns. I use a warm damp cloth everyday to wipe them, they screetch and dont like it. But is there anything else i can do to help them get over the crusty buns thing....? Any advice would be much appreciated...
  15. Paintedhorsegirl

    Momma duck brought ducklings outside for the first time!

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    New chicks! Black silkie and white crested black polish

  17. Paintedhorsegirl

    Set 24 eggs today! and might of already killed them

    Im using a still air incubator, my first time using one. Only my second time hatching out eggs, my first incubator I made myself and hatched 7 out of 15 eggs...I was pretty proud of myself. I figured I would have better luck with one I got at Tractor supply. I really wanted a hova-bator but...
  18. Paintedhorsegirl

    Help...baby chicks arrived today..2 very sickly

    I got 7 polish chicks come by mail order today...Ive alwasy said I would never get chicks that way because i worry of them not making it..Well 2 areent doing well at all. 5 are lively and 2 looked dead but moved their feet when i picked them up...so i quickly got some sugar water and a dropper...
  19. Paintedhorsegirl

    horse fell to her knees...

    I was cleaning my horses feet tonight and when I went to do her right front foot, she fell. I tried again a little while later, she acts like she doesnt want to pick it up and when she does, she falls to her knee...I checked her legs, nothing seems abnormal and no swolleness anywhere. No cuts...
  20. Paintedhorsegirl

    Over protective momma duck!

    I took down the barrier that was seperating momma duck and her babies from the others. I left one chicken in with her and the others went to a different coop. There are 2 heating lamps on both ends of this big coop. So yesterday i figured i would move my 4 week old chicks outside to that coop in...
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