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As a natural remedy (not recommending this over traditional medicine, use that first) garlic and/or cayenne has worked for me to help reduce or cure some avian diseases until I can get proper medicine for them.

I know I will get hate for this, but when I have had to kill a mean rooster, I shoot it with a .22 short(CCI CB .22 Shorts are quiet for urban areas) I don't feel that I would cut right with a knife, a .22 is quick and easy, since capturing it isn't needed. Yes, this isn't economical for a...

Also what breed does your neighbor have? That might help to solve some of the problems because some chickens are less hardy than others, or simply "wear out" quickly

Maybe I should have worded my post differently, lights that gradually come on in the morning are ok. What the OP was describing sounded like the neighbor was going from pitch black to bright light at 2am, which is unnatural. As for the soft eggs, the neighbor should feed more calcium, and you...

No, that's not how lights work, you don't use them in the morning, you use them to extend the day, at the end of the day, which does not stress them

Considering to get some turkeys to add to the backyard flock, been considering Royal Palms, Midget Whites and Bourbon Reds. What is the best small backyard flock breed?

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Do any hatcheries allow you to combine ducklings, chicks and poults together into the minimum order. I don't want to have to get 15 ducklings, 15 poults and 15 chicks, but like 10 chicks, 3 ducklings and 2 poults. Any hatcheries that do this?

I feel you, especially when my chicks that I have ordered are magically "theirs", well I guess that's what happens when the feed store is in town :/

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but say I got a couple midget white poults this year, could I raise them with my chicks, and also will a tom try to breed a chicken hen?

Yes, drakes with very few or no hen ducks, may try to breed your hen chickens. Ducks because they mostly mate in the water breed different. A drake has a penis unlike a rooster, which will harm chickens, as far as rehomjng I sell them at the feed store or eat them.

Drakes don't really have any "cons" Most drakes aren't agressive and they don't crow (actually quieter than the female ducks). The only "con" would be that they don't lay eggs. With a drake your eggs are fertilized so you can hatch ducklings and don't have to buy from the hatchery again, unless...

The "giants" are the new Zealand's they get bout 9-11 pounds

I guess I'll just get a florida white buck for breeding

I haven't had ducks get it bit I've had chickens get it before.

Most people think ducklings and goslings have to be fed non-medicated which is not true, older medicated feeds were to be harmful to waterfowl because they had different medications. Modern starter-grower feeds are medicated with amprolium which is NOT harmful to goslings and ducklings, check...

M is for mutton

What breed or hybrid is my buck rabbit? Is 6 years old too old to breed? I'm planning on mating him to a florida white doe or two, would they be good meat rabbits?

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