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    Silkie bleeding from mouth and gurgling

    I have a 3-year-old silkie rooster. I have had him separated from other roosters because a storm damaged our coop and he is special to me. Today I let him out for a little bit while we were fixing the coop and he decided to fight with some of the roosters. He now has some gurgling and blood in...
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    Choosing a Mama

    I have a mixed flock of standard size chickens, bantams, and guinea fowl. I actually prefer any guinea keets we get to be raised with at least one chicken, so they understand that chickens are family. I have had hens raise just guineas and I have had a hen raise chicks and guinea keets at the...
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    Choosing a Mama

    About three weeks ago I found one of my guinea hens went broody on a nest. I went ahead and took the eggs from her because there were too many, and she was not in the best location. I put the ones that looked like they were growing in my incubator, and they are now hatching. At the most I will...
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    What breed and what gender

    This is my first turkey and I am wondering what breed it is, if it is a boy or girl and how tall it will be full grown. I don't have another turkey to compare it to be cause it's friend passed over a month ago. This turkey is about 3-4 months old, already 2.5 ft tall and I suspect it is about 20...
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    Chick can't raise her head

    How long has she had these issues? Posting a video would also help. Are you using a heat lamp or a heating pad? Any possible way she could have gotten a head or neck injury? Any other chick acting off? The reason for these questions is I have had an overheated dark brahma rooster that could...
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    Broody Stays In Main Coop Or Move To Separate Coop?

    I currently have a broody myself she has 13 guinea fowl eggs, which I started in an incubator not realizing their hatch date was going to be the day I arrive home from church camp. A few days after realizing my situation the Lord answered my prayers and I got a broody hen when I needed her. Best...
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    Meaning

    It sounds like your chick is moving food from it's crop to it's stomach. Some people say it looks like they're yawning and it is completely normal for them to do this.
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    Swimming?

    We put misters up in the run last year and would turn them on during the hot days. My flock loved them.
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    What is going on?!

    Coccidiosis be spread by walking through a contaminated pen and then walking through a clean pen with the same shoes on.
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    4 roosters for sale

    I have 4 adult roosters for sale for $10 per bird or $15 a pair. Selling because we have too many roosters and it is causing issues. The free-range the day and are locked up at night. I live near Lone Oak, TX. Frosty was hatched in my incubator in the early spring of 2018. His parents were...
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Three more hatch on their own and 1 I had to help because it got stuck mid zip. That raises my total to 6 chicks. I have three more egg that I am unsure about but I will give them a few more days. Before I discard them. Otherwise I am happy with my hatch. The chicks are 2 sebright mixes, 2...
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Here is what I got so far from my dozen. 3 were duds and didn't grow at all. Late night there was 1pip and this morning 2 more piped so there were 3 pips in total. Then I took a shower came back and 2 chicks hatched! 1 chick is a silver laced sebright mix and the other chick is a bantam Brahma...
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    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Count me in I set a dozen chicken eggs today. This is my first Hatchalong but my second time hatching.
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    Huge Egg!

    It looks like you might have gotten an egg inside an egg. Only way to know for sure is to crack it open.
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    Bad peck wound on head

    Sweet is doing well she drinks and she at least eats some mealworms every day. Her wound is healing and the swelling went down. The first hen has since be put back with the flock and her wound is completely healed. Sweet is in our chick bin where she can see and hear the rest of the flock while...
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    Bad peck wound on head

    Here are pictures We had put either her or her sister(same breed as Sweet) in there before because sometimes they get covered in mud and it still gets cold here at night and the hen was nice to them so I don't know why she attacked. Sweet is doing good and took the treatment well. Is there...
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    Bad peck wound on head

    I have a hen named Sweet. She is under a year old and got a bad peak wound on top of her head. The hen who caused it we are trying to integrate back in the flock after see had healed from a tear on her side. We stuck Sweet in the other hen so she could dry and clean the mud of herself and for...
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    Naming contest. Indian Runner Hen

    If she is an Indian Runner what about India for her name.
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    Please help!!!!! Chicken attacked by husky.

    Oregano oil might work too.
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    Please help!!!!! Chicken attacked by husky.

    Raw organic honey on the wound will help kill the bacteria on the wound and feeding her oregano might help her fight infection.
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