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I work at a feed store and we received a day old chick with a broken wing (she is now about a week old). The guys set it back for me b/c I nurse most of the sick ones that we get back to health, but I have never nursed with a broken wing before. Any information you can give me would be...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. Silkie, about three weeks old. She is half the size of the buff silkie that I got at the same time. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Her area around the vent is greatly extended. Her vent is open and she is constantly trying to poop. I have been...

I have 4 peking ducklings that are 2 weeks old. Three are huge (maybe 4 times the size from when I got them) but one is half the size of the others. She (I am hoping) is keeping her head tucked back into her body and is not eating and drinking as vigorously as the other three. She also does...

I recently lost my nephews 4 month old BO to cocci. Despite a vet trip and meds she did not make it. This leaves her buddy dexter without a playmate. I am looking for a young BO pullet in the 3 to 4 month range. I am in the High Point area but travel from Raleigh to Charlotte somewhat...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. Buff Orphington, 3 months old, HAS LOST MOST OF HER WEIGHT IN THE PAST WEEK 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She does not do chicken things. She sits and sleeps. Her breathing is heavy. She is eating and drinking. 3) Is there any bleeding, injury...

When I first started coming to this site there was a tri fold brochure that could be printed from this site (at least I think it was this site). It was about getting started with chicks. I work at a Feed and Seed and would like to find it for reference and get permission to reproduce it to...

I have searched and tried to follow the advise given here but it seems that it is just not meant to be. At the beginning of November I received two polish chickens from a fellow BYCer and confined them in my chicken tractor for three weeks. I then moved them into the coop with the other girls...

I brought two new polish chickens home yesterday with the expectation that my DH would have put a door and closed up the front of my tractor so that I could use it during the winter for their confinement period, but he did not touch it. So... I need Ideas as to how you would seal it up. Here...

I collected these from my egg box today... The one on the left was a large by my scale. The two in the middle were off the charts on my scale and the one on the right was a medium. So, who wants to guess how many yolks? Here they are on the scale. They would have tipped it more but there...

IN MY HOUSE!!! I came home from work and took a shower. I grabbed my towel to step out and there it was slithering into the bathroom. I screamed loud enough that my husband came running. It was blackish but not a black snake. I dont think I will sleep tonight By the way my bathroom is on...

The floor of my coop is welded wire and there are screen sections in the doors of my coop. I also have a vent on the front that is covered with screen. (pictures are in my sig link if you need to see what I am talking about. I live in central NC and right now it is getting into the high50's at...

I GOT MY FIRST EGG TODAY!!!! At 26 weeks tomorrow it is about time. The funny thing is I was out shopping yesterday with my parents and found a neat metal rooster. I bought it saying that it might encourage them to lay. (I was beginning to doubt the theory that they will lay without a rooster...

1) What type of bird , age and weight. EE, 21 months, dont know 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Let the girls out of the coop this am and nugget did not come out of the coop so I went in and she was still on the roost. She was panting with her beak open and had her wings spread. She took...

So long story short, I hope! I work at a feed store and a lady came in with a very tame rabbit that her kids have lost interest in. Normally we tell people they can post on our message board in the store but we dont sell previously owned animals due to disease and such. But this rabbit was...

A friends teenage daughters came home with three miniature chicks from the local flea market! She cannot keep them and wants me to take them. Can you tell me what they are? I want to know the breed but also if you think that two of them are roos. Sorry about the pic quality. Susanne

My DH and I are currently in the process of building a coop similar to chickenlips coop! I have two places in the yard where I can place it and I am wondering where you all think is best. Location 1- Uphill but next to my garden. Pros: I can fence the garden and let the chickens clean between...