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    Guinea HEN or Guinea COCK?

    We dont know what breed of guineafowl we have so google images was no help. As far as noise it sounds more trumpet like than a male but it does the drill sounding noise that males make. So posting here in the hopes that you guys and gals might be able to tell.
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    Fleas on Ducks

    My neighbor and I have read all the supplied links and they have started treating not only their flock but their yard. I looked over my own flick and thankfully nothing on mine. But thank you everyone for your help.
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    Fleas on Ducks

    So my neighbors ducks keep getting these black patches on them. When they finally got a closer look the patches look like thousands of fleas. She is wondering what she could do to rid her ducks of this. Included a picture.
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    Duck cant walk

    Did your suggestions and she passed 2 eggs and is much better now :)
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    Duck cant walk

    We put her in a warm bath and took large tums tablet and broke it up into bite sized pieces. We covered it thinly with yogurt and rolled it ensue it suet crunch seed mix to make it more palatable. Within two hours she had passed two eggs. She is doing much better now.
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    Duck cant walk

    She was egg bound. We put her in the tub filled with warm water and fed her one yogurt and seed coveted tums and less than two hours later she passed 2 eggs. She is doing much better now. And she never had any problems previously.
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    Duck cant walk

    I dont know about that lol. My muscovy drale seems to know a few things I would have thought to complex for an animal. But perhaps its just because I bonded more with him.
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    Duck cant walk

    Indeed. Again, I will give it a shot. When we came home she was moving around mostly fine. But when she noticed us watching she started doing this flopping thing again. My husband thinks she may be trying to get extra attention or food by faking an injury. While her back end is still looking...
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    Duck cant walk

    I will let her soak in some warm water then. See what happens. Thank you.
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    Duck cant walk

    He is only that feisty because I think one of the younger ducks is also a drake. He has only been like that since the two moulards have feathered out. The drake is usually quite gentle with the hens.
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    Duck cant walk

    I have a Pekin hen, only a year old, who has w swollen abdomen and is having trouble walking. She was injured last year by getting her butt stuck on a nail but she seemed fine. I dont know if she has laid yet this year because I also have her clutch sister and at least one of them is laying. I...
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    Day 23 and No Pipping

    So here is the story. My husband and I are both new to chickens and ducks. We were actually getting rid of all our chickens, finding that we find ducks more enjoyable, when our neighbor's bantam chickens laid a clutch of twelve in our straw pile! We couldn't afford an incubator, but we had a...
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    What is wrong with my chickens

    I'm new to chickens, and not very good at it. Recently, just the past four or five days, my two older chickens have fallen I'll. It started with callus like bumps on their eyes and comb. Now each on has a swollen closed eye and the rooster has black crusty stuff around the eye. I have...
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    Muscovy Question

    Hello, I have a few questions about muscovys, but first I feel I need to explain how I got into muscovy ducks. I have included a few pictures of him, including what he looked like as a duckling. Two of these pictures show him two weeks ago, while the close up of his head was taken yesterday...
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