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Yesterday a bbb hen got her head stuck in a fence and flailed like crazy. She seemed ok, but didn’t move much. I figured if she looked bad this morning I’d just go ahead and process her. But I found her dead this morning. Stiff. Can I still process her? I’ve never waited after death to process a...

I have a large mixed flock of chickens (various breeds, ages, sizes), turkey (also above variables), ducks (same age 6 months, various breeds) and geese (6 months, all Chinese). The chickens all seem extremely skinny, bony skinny. The turkey are also slim but not bony. The geese and ducks don’t...

i have about 60/70 chicks in an outdoor coop and run. Since the onset of sneezing a few days ago it’s progressed to a crackling in the lungs and a loss of about 3 chicks per day. The coop has hay for bedding, the run is grass and some dirt. When it gets wet I cover the dirt with DE. I clean...

I’ve come home today to find my chicks sneezing wheezing and some coughing. How do I treat this? What causes this? They are eating and drinking, being chicks, but this is alarming. I literally left for two hours and came home to this. I’m freaking out. One polish looks like It’s head is...

Is it possible to keep coturnix and button quail together? Here’s my problem. The past two nights I’ve had a skunk somehow get into my 6’ chainlink fence and then proceed to move pallets to get to my coturnix quail. Didn’t touch the chickens at all, or the button quail, just the coturnix. I’ve...

Im new to keeping geese, so naturally my husband and I decided to jump in head first. We got 9 goslings as hatchery choice assortment to start out. 8 look like the guy at the top and the fella on tge bottom is odd man out with smaller eyes. Are they different breeds? And if so any idea what?