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  1. farmergal

    tragedy... what happened???

    She didn't actually eat any part of them, though, as far as I could tell. I've raised probably 150 chickens from chicks and never lost 4 at a time like this. They were completely fine last night, no signs of illness whatsoever -- could 4 really just instantly drop dead like that? I've never...
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    tragedy... what happened???

    I am so, so saddened and confused. A week ago, my bantam broody hatched out 1 chick on her own (the eggs had originally started under another broody who abandoned the eggs, hence the low hatch rate), and I grafted 6 others from the feed store onto her. She'd been broody for over a month so it...
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    what the heck?! broody kills chicks 1 week after hatch...

    I am so, so saddened and confused. A bantam broody hatched out 1 chick on her own (the eggs had originally started under another broody who abandoned the eggs, hence the low hatch rate), and I grafted 6 others from the feed store onto her. She'd been broody for over a month so it wasn't like...
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    when are my sheep "done"? (errr, bred?)

    Oooh, the paint sounds like a good idea. I thought of the "raddle" at first but then thought that the pain of getting my ram in a harness (and then having to look at him, being so silly) wasn't worth it... plus, it seemed like an unnecessary cost... but direct paint would be cheaper. I'll...
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    My goat had a miscarriage this morning!

    Awww I'm so sorry! That person sounds horrible, how irresponsible. When I took my goats to the vet the other day (to fix a bad disbudding :p which had been done by a first-time breeder) the vet was telling me about the horrible things she'd seen... for instance, the person who let a scur grow...
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    when are my sheep "done"? (errr, bred?)

    So, I am new to the sheep thing -- I brought my first sheep (babydoll southdowns) home around February. I've had the ram separated from the ewes since July so I wouldn't end up with lambs too early. Since our climate is pretty mild, I figured Feb/March would be a good time to lamb. And...
  7. farmergal

    Baby goats arrived last night!

    Awww too bad I'm too far away to bring home your little buckling... I have an adorable buckling of my own who is currently kind of bummed to be by himself, in with the male sheep. He misses all of his girlfriends but they're going to have to wait until they're old enough to date! I've only...
  8. farmergal

    Looking for LF cochins and or Polish Hatching Eggs.

    Me too. Sounds like a LF Cochin auction would do VERY well right now...
  9. farmergal

    Heritage Delaware & BBS Orp Assortment FS/ N. Ga. Mtns (SOLD)

    If only I weren't 3,000 miles away...
  10. farmergal

    Droopy, skinny WL hen getting worse -- what to do?

    Thanks for the help. For those who have a similar problem, I am trying the following treatment: *Syringe feed her yogurt, mixed with a bit of chick starter (just to make it as calorically-rich as possible.) *Put nutri-drench in her water, and then the next time I filled it, I put in some...
  11. farmergal

    HELP!!! Abandoned Baby Mouse!!!!

    To be perfectly honest, it will probably not survive and the kindest thing to do would be to put it out of its misery. Where did you find it? Was there some sort of nest nearby? It's possible the mama mouse was moving it to a different spot and dropped it. If you're really going to try and...
  12. farmergal

    "Spazzy" the keet -- what to do?

    Interesting. He didn't seem to have a leg problem until at least a week after he started shaking... At first it was just shaking with no other symptoms whatsoever. (And he would shake even when he was sitting down, not just when trying to stand up.) Here I was thinking it was some kind of...
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    Droopy, skinny WL hen getting worse -- what to do?

    Does anyone have any suggestions? I just put her back in a small cat carrier with water and chick starter... she is definitely sluggish, it was easy to catch her (and usually my WLs are crazy, fast, and don't like to be caught). I gave her a bit of Nutri-Drench too.
  14. farmergal

    "Spazzy" the keet -- what to do?

    I have a six-week-old guinea keet who has a problem that no one (at the feed store, local guinea breeders, etc.) seems to have seen before. At about 10 days old, he started shaking. The shaking kind of impaired his ability to function with the group of 12 keets and chicks he was living with...
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    Droopy, skinny WL hen getting worse -- what to do?

    I have a flock of approximately 80 birds, and about a week ago I noticed a WL hen looking out of sorts. Her comb -- normally a perky, huge, red comb -- was looking shriveled. Her wings seemed to sag a little. And when I picked her up she had obviously lost quite a bit of weight. One other...
  16. farmergal

    Will guinea's attack chickens?

    If your chicken came into my yard, the guineas would definitely attack it. They put all new chickens through the ringer... even when there are 12 new chickens added at once. Pretty much every new chicken (plus the old roosters, when they get too fresh) gets chased around the yard with my guinea...
  17. farmergal

    i found a lump hope its not cancer UPDATE post 26 UPDATE 2 post 27

    I had this problem when I was about your age -- mine was a fibrocystic lump. It doesn't have to be caused by changing birth control, it can also be triggered by caffeine intake. Do you drink coffee or tea or caffeinated soda? Once I cut back on my caffeine intake, it went away. But before it...
  18. farmergal

    WINNER HAS BEEN CHOOSEN: Help me pick a farm name and win a 6 mon. GFM

    Funny Feathers Farm (Or Funny Feather Farms) Chuckling Chooks Farm Chuckling Chicken Farm (With just "The Chuckling Chicken" for use on egg cartons) Happy Hen Farm Happy Go Lucky Farm Funny Bone Farms Holly's Happy Hens (again, for egg cartons... and if you want you could even add "Holly's...
  19. farmergal

    What attracted you to your spouse/partner?

    1.) What first attracted you to your partner? He plays guitar and sings... and wrote me a song not long after we started dating, surprised me with a CD with it on it when I was driving home from college It was at the end of the CD, and all of the sudden I heard my name being sung. Also, it's...
  20. farmergal

    First unexplained deaths, now lame hen

    Threehorses gave an awesome answer, and I would definitely follow her advice! If there's anything wrong with your birds health-wise that should certainly help. However, something you (uwharrie) said struck me as odd... that the first bird's feathers were wet around her neck. And now the other...
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