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    Urgent help needed with possible poisoning

    Hi, Quick background check is that i noticed we had mites and lice. My local pet shop man said to spray the coop with one product and dip the chickens and ducks in another. The problem i have is since dipping, some of my chickens and a few of the ducks look dizzy and can´t seem to walk that...
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    mice, maybe rats. HELP !!

    So i saw some mice about a year ago in my chicken pen and didn´t think much of it as i have always seen them down the local stables where i kept my horse. I aways thought as long as they are not rats i´m ok. Then we have various eggs go missing from under a goose and i put it down to her eating...
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    Bill broken.

    Help, I just went down to check on our animals as i know one of our geese has eggs hatching right now. Then to my horror i saw one of my muscovy ducks with blood all over its back. When i picked her up and checked there was no cuts on her back at all . Then i noticed the very tip of her beak was...
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    Is the goose eating the babies before they hatch??

    I have a goose who is sitting on 8 goose eggs and 7 duck eggs, Today i saw half a shell that had been opened lengthways and had blood etc like from a newborn. I got reall excited as they are due this week. However i couldn´t see any little ones. We lifted her up and to my horror she only had the...
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    URGENT !!! silkie with babies stealing eggs !!!

    I have a silkie that has just hatched 3 of her 6 eggs, not sure what happened to the other 3 eggs as when we looked inside they were fully grown but didn´t hatch. The problem i have is i had two silkies broody at the same time in the same area. The next silkie to have hers is actually sitting on...
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    D-day for the big male Turkey

    I have chickens, ducks, geese and then last spring i thought i would buy two turkeys whilst in the farm shop. The man said, black or white........."ermmmm one of each thanks" came my reply. Knowing nothing about turkeys it didn´t even enter my brain that they would be different breeds etc. So...
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    Mallard/Muscovy cross----- Muscovy/Mallard cross ??

    Hello, Hoping someone might be able to help with my confusion on this. I have both mallards and moscovies together. They use to be seperate but somehow the muscovies just kept getting in with the mallards so in the end i left them. I have heard that in the interbreed between the two breeds it...
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    is she ever going to sit on that lovely nest.

    Hi Everyone. I have been looking over the last 10 pages and can´t really find an answer to my question so i thought i would ask. I have one of each Toulouse geese. The male has been hissing and getting more and more aggressive every day. I understand from reading posts that this is normal in...
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    Help needed for a new pallet coop.

    Hi Everyone. I have been lucky enough to be able to get quite a few pallets and am wanting to build a new coop with them so i can increase my brood. Problem is i am not really a very good carpenter and would like some help in order to make the structure stable. I have seen photos on here...
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    will my turkeys breed??

    Hi everyone, This is my first post in the Turkey forum, i am better known in the duck and chicken section. Last spring i bought two turkeys knowing nothing about them thinking we could have them for Christmas dinner. ...... well to cut a long story short we didn´t. I have one male who is very...
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    Help woth baby geese !!!

    Hi everyone, I am new to geese but have ducks,turkeys, chickens, quails, rabbits etc. The thing is i bought 2 gosslings here in >Spain about 3 weeks ago and i was told they were around 4/5 weeks old. They were happy and seemed to thrive amongst all the other animals. However there is now a...
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    help with stolen eggs !!!!!!

    Hi all, I am posting this to see if anyone can help. I have two mallard ducks sitting on the same nest, they are underneath a fig tree. The problem i have is that although difficult to see last week i saw they had 19 eggs underneath them and yeaterday only 9. I had a few hens and the rest...
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    whats stealing the broodys eggs

    Hi all, I am posting this to see if anyone can help. I have two mallard ducks sitting on the same nest, they are underneath a fig tree. The problem i have is that although difficult to see last week i saw they had 19 eggs underneath them and yeaterday only 9. I had a few hens and the rest...
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    Female duck is finally broody !!!!!!!!

    WOW WOW WOW WOW clap IT SEEMS ONE OF MY FEMALE DUCKS IS FINALLY BROODY, SO EXCITED, I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BUY MALLARDS AND CAN ONLY GET MUSCOVIES WHERE I AM SO HAD TO RESORT TO TRYING TO INCUBATE EGGS, THEY ARE DUE NEXT WEEK BUT IN THE MEAN TIME ONE OF THE TWO FEMALES IS SITTING...
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    incubating chinese quail eggs.......

    Hello, I am about to incubate some of my duck and hen eggs and as my quails have just started laying and we have a male too i thought i might put a few quail eggs in. I have read else where on the site that they take 16 days but other then that i don´t know anything. Do you think they will be...
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    New member from Spain

    Hello I am new to this site but would like to say that i have both Chickens and ducks and an incubator on the go...... I am fairly new to everything regarding them but i have over the last year been adding to my collection and have learnt how to kill the birds for meat, All but two males go...
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    i cracked an egg

    Hi everyone, This is my first post and have looked up many an answer before but just can´t see to find one for this question. I dropped my wrist watch into my incubator while turning the eggs today and it cracked one of my eggs. The thing is i don´t know weather to leave it or not. They are...
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