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  1. rabbott

    Dog attack!! Help please!!

    2 big dogs attacked my flock this morning... one roo is gone :( the other is hanging on. I'm just not sure what else to do. I gave him a warm bath (and blow dry) to asses any punctures /bleeding. I do not see any other than his left eye was bloody and he's keeping it shut. He's wheezing and...
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    Please help hen

    I have a small silky mix that just yesterday started acting different. so I isolated her and found out that when I pick her up (but she normally won't let me) her croup just feels full and squishing and if I press on it then she starts vomiting out of her mouth all this liquid!! By evening...
  3. rabbott

    Please help hen

    I have a small silky mix that just yesterday started acting different. so I isolated her and found out that when I pick her up (but she normally won't let me) her croup just feels full and squishing and if I press on it then she starts vomiting out of her mouth all this liquid!! By evening...
  4. rabbott

    how do you know if eggs are bad??

    just found a random clutch of eggs all from different hens... i know that its at least 9 days worth becuz of the 1 EE green egg per day... are they all bad and need to be thrown out?? it has beeen hot about 100 daily but nobody has been sitting on the eggs....
  5. rabbott

    HELP! Super Thin Hen...

    i have a hen (2yrs leg horn) that i just noticed last nite how thin she has gotten... she has always been very unfriendly / skittish... last nite at lock down i took my head count and found her in a nesting box rather than her normal high perch spot... picked her up and was shocked to find her...
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    sitting hen got off her clutch after first one hatched??

    a friends hen was sitting on a clutch, one hatched last monday the other eggs were layed ramdomely after the first one was (by other hens) the eggs were candled and looked fertile... since the 1 hatched she is now off her eggs and they dont look to be pipping and eggs are cold now... is this...
  7. rabbott

    no clue what i'm doing..

    ok i have a silkie that i gave 2 random eggs form other hens ( 1 waynndott / 1 amuracana) after we lost her 1st baby (after a successful hatch - possible drowning) i tried candling them and was pretty convinced they were fertile and growing chicks. on last candling about day 15 both looked...
  8. rabbott

    why did my baby die?

    i'm pretty new to this... i have a silky that was sitting with 1 egg.... yesterday was hatching day!! sure enough one cute little baby was there when i got up yesterday :) i did pick up the baby a few times yesterday.. and i moved mom and baby to a clean box (3'x2') and put a water & feeder in...
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    siblings??

    how do you know if the baby peeps you got at the feed store are siblings or not?? and what if they are and one grows up to be a hen and one a rooster??
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