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    Sudden Duck owner needing encouragement

    This might be long, so Thank you if you read it. We live in a pasture on my parents property. My parents and a neighbor share a pond in the pasture. The neighbors sold their house several months ago and asked us to take the remaining five chickens they had and one male duck that was living on...
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    Swollen eye and side of head

    We just returned home from vacation this evening to find one of our girls was sick. My Dad has been caring for them for the past week and separated her out this past week when he noticed she was not coming out of the coop and sitting in a corner. He couldn't see anything obvious until about 3...
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    Sick chicken, respiratory?

    Hey! I just went outside and found one of my 7 year old hens not walking around well. She has one eye that is crusty and shut, the other eye is fine. She is making a wheezing, gurgling sound. Last week we found an egg that was broken with Black runny stuff inside. It smelled horrible and I'm...
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    Is there anything else I can do :(

    One of my original hens (6 years old) is sick. She has not been walking well for 2 days and puffed up. I removed her and put her in a stall in the barn. She has just been laying in the same spot all morning with her eyes closed. I've brought her inside since I think her end is very near...
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    Hatching emergency

    I have a hen that was sitting on 5 eggs. Today is day 21 but 1 hatched yesterday morning. She has been getting off the next today with that one. One egg started hatching this morning and when I went back to check on it, she had been pecking at it and it was covered in blood and died. There are 3...
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    What's would cause Eggs to look like this?

    This is the 2nd egg like this in the past week. All of ours hens are between 2 and 6 years old. They free range and lay in multiple places so I'm not sure who laid this egg. I've never seen this before. Thanks.
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    1 day old chick with issues

    I'm fairly certain nothing can be done for this baby but I promised my 6 year old I would try. This chick hatched this morning and we've watched it throughout the day. It does not have it's eyes open and doesn't stand much. I could tell something wasn't right but we left it in the box with...
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    Missing eye

    I noticed today one of my chicks is missing an eye. It is around 8 weeks old and I have no idea how long it's been like this. It looks scabbed over but I notice some places around it's eye and neck that look like it's getting pecked. I really haven't noticed anyone picking on it so I don't...
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    Help, need suggestions for addition.....

    I need suggestions on how you would expand my coop, please. I'm not coming up with much that I'm happy with. We can't cut out any of the run so it would have to be on either side of the coop with another run, or something. I want everything connected but can't figure it out. There is about 5...
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    Rooster advice

    Can someone please tell me about adding a rooster to my flock? I'm really thinking of getting one for my girls but several friends are telling me not too. The thing they keep saying is they will tear the girls up. Are they all really that bad? I was thinking of getting a Buff Orpinton Roo or...
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    Having second thoughts :(

    I have a Broody Hen that is really persistent so we decided to let her have some babies. I was going to find some fertilized eggs and let her hatch so I called our local feed store earlier to see if they knew of anyone. They told me that just received a delivery of day old chicks and told me...
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    Question about Broody Chicken

    I have 6 chickens and they are all 9 months old. I have an EE that has gone broody. She has been in the nesting box for 3 days. I keep taking her out and she will go run around yelling for a few minutes and drink then go back in the box. I haven't decided if I want to separate her yet or let...
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    Need help please

    Okay, I will try to keep this short and to the point I have a younger brother who is irresponsible and lazy He ordered 25 Turkeys around the end of June and received 30 total. He had no shelter, no food, nothing for them until the morning they were delivered. I would go into more detail but...
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    Open coop

    Here is our coop We are working on making the run as predator proof as possible (using hardware cloth over the entire coop, etc). I really want to leave the whole front open because it get's so hot and humid here. I'm starting to have second thoughts so if anyone has an open coop can you...
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    New chicks, need help identifying

    I do not know which one is the RIR, Can someone help I ordered 1 Australorp 1 RIR 1 Red star 1 Buff Orp 2 EE
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    They are Here

    My order from mypetchicken arrived this morning. They were all very active and look great. They have been eating a lot and it took them a while to start drinking. I dipped their beaks in the water but they stayed away for a while. They have been huddled under the heat lamp and are starting...
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    Roost advice.....pic included

    I started working on the roost yesterday and I don't like it. The top roost is 43" and it's fine but the shorter roost is bothering me. If someone is roosting on the smaller one they are going to get pooped on. I extends out 18" and needs to be big enough for 6 chicks. Advice? view of...
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    Our Coop.......UPDATED pics pg 2

    I actually started a few weeks ago and framed the floor and walls. It was put on hold for a week until my husband could help. I had high ambitions of doing the entire thing by myself. I am 19 weeks pregnant and we have a newly turned 4 year old and an 18 month old. I could not lift some of...
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    Tuftex panels

    We are working on the roof of our coop and this is what I bought. They seem really flimsy but I've read several posts that say I can put these directly on the rafters. I just wanted to double check with someone who has done that before we put them up. I'm in Alabama and it get's really hot...
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    Paint question

    I have untreated wood on the inside and I'm not finishing the walls. I was planning on using Kilz primer and then painting. My husband does not want to paint. He thinks we should just seal the wood and use a pressure washer if we need to. What does everyone think?
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