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Here is a really strange one, and I feel for the poor little thing, though it doesn't seem in pain, not much, but then chickens do not show pain. I could not help but notice one day that the poor thing had inflated on one side, the skin separating from the muscle beneath across a vast area of...

I have a lovely hen, a good mother who had four chicks to start, but is down to two. One of the chicks is assumed to have died as it was blind and hasn't been seen for a few days. The mother has gone blind now because of the pox infection on her face, same for one of her two remaining chicks...

I have only been telling my close friends for the last week or so, because I've been so scared to mention it anywhere else, but Now mainstream media is talking about it too, I just saw new articles about it on usatoday, techcrunch, yahoo, a lot of others too, so I guess I could mention it and...

I heard there are 6 kinds of Mareks so far, and was wondering why it kills so badly, I got three roosters this week, and now have 3 dead roosters, they didn't linger and it wasn't slow like the other ones I lost to Mareks. I was talking about this on a few threads and went looking for the usual...

Yes, chicks need three weeks to hatch, I know, but Broody hens will sit on bad eggs for longer than that. Looked everywhere for an answer, can't find anything meaningful, would like to get as many ideas from as many people as possible because it is an important question when fostering eggs or...

I've done a sort of slab with a round slightly tapered hole in it for a hatch, like a manhole but half the diameter, and want to just put concrete into the hole so that it IS it's own mold. But I need the new piece to come out when required... What can keep the cement separated from the mold...

So I collected from a paddock horse and a bit of cow, but mostly horsie, into some bags. Popped it into pots. Onions seem to be doing ok. Onions like in their second year, can cut off bits to add to cooking and the rest keeps growing. Tomatoes are like not so good, foot high seedlings dont...

My friends in hot n frosty central nsw australia trim it to about 2m, they've had it forever n have no idea what it is. I want to try to buy or propagate it, but to start to work out how I guess i Need to know what it is, lanceolate pinnate entire are properties of the leaves i think,it is...

I find them mentioned in some versions of the bible, does anyone know famous stories about or featuring chooks ?? Proverbs 30 Four Things That Move With Dignity 29 Three things are stately in their stride, even four are stately in their walk: 30 a lion, which is mightiest among beasts and...

Australia soil does not have iodine, half of all children in australia and most adults don't have enough. I have thyroid problems and so do some of my friends. I wanted to buy some when I was getting some other chemicals from a chemical company so I can spread it about the yard, but they tell me...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) a) chick, full crop, looked healthy except couldn't get up, died after a week ? b) year or two old maran hen. normal weight c) year or two old maran hen. normal weight 2) What is the...

I have bought some pipes to arrange into a trompe, but I don't want to dig a hole or go too high, so I wonder has anyone done a two or three stage trompe to get higher air pressure ? I'm using the excess pressure in the tap water to run it, as I have no stream.

I have two dead and at least two dying birds from the same symptoms as last time (this is first time I posted for help), the sounds they are making as they die sounds like gargling (?) when they breath, or sounds like breathing out through a blocked nose. From last time and trying to save one of...

I think I have borers on my Apricot saplings because I see balls of sap on the little trunks which are the size of a grape, on finger or thumb size stem. I would like to know how to kill the little devils that are doing this, using something from the kitchen which can be eaten, and so is safe...

I am wanting to know which kitchen item I can use to pour or place into standing water that pools up near my house. I have no interest in any peddled commercial product whatsoever, I don't care how advertised as 'non-toxic' it is. If it is not intended for humans to eat then I don't want it in...

Has anyone used camphor, the kind of thing that apparently kills cloths moths, to kill weevils in wheat bins ? how have you found it and does it effect the chickens in your experience ? Are there factual studies to say if camphor is nontoxic or problematic and if it effects food. I have been...

I went and searched about this and there is a big group of links that fall into two categories, one says it's too 'hot' but doesn't say if that's temperature or chemical and the other says nitrogen will suffocate things without any example. They are ALL in the category of just parroting stuff...

http://funnyfunda.com/cool-stuffs/four-legged-chicken.php I was reading about the four legged chick above and wondered if anyone here has had a strange chick hatch ?

This is about my few weeks old chook, who I found had a wheat husk ? lodged in her eye the other day. I would look at her and think 'that is something in her eye, a hisk or something' t the bottom of her eye. Whenever I picked her up (two times ?) (and I am presuming she is a she, but it's very...

I gave my polish girls a haircut, so they could get a new perspective on the world around them, and now the idiot rooster doesn't seem to recognize them, he chased and attacked one of the nicest hens until she was half buried under some wood, I had to put him in a boo box. Has this happened to...