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    Do chickens throw up? or something like that

    This is a great!! I appreciate your thorough explaining :) My daughter loves researching all of her questions around our little farm. She loves coming across answers with explanations. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge :)
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    my barred rock ate a cuban tree frog!!

    i have looked them up and this is def a Cuban Tree Frog :( They are everywhere here in Central Florida. Everything I've read on them says they produce poisonous secretions on their backs... My chicken ate one! should I be worried? I haven't found any info on them and chickens. Any help would be...
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    Best breed for backyard coop?

    have had Barred Rocks and game rooster and hens and they are very wonderful quiet breeds.
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    Baby Guinea was stuck in garden wire!!!

    that's very encouraging! thank you!
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    Baby Guinea was stuck in garden wire!!!

    Justin laying there sleeping now no movement other than breathing :( How can animals just lay around like this??? It's beyond sad for me not to mention my pregnancy hormones... I don't feel like I'm doing enough :(
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    Baby Guinea was stuck in garden wire!!!

    oh and yes i forgot to mention he does not appear to have any open wounds thank goodness.
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    Baby Guinea was stuck in garden wire!!!

    thank you hannah. i will try that right away. he's still just laying there not interested in feed or water so will try the syringe. thanks so much!
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    Baby Guinea was stuck in garden wire!!!

    I left the house super early this morning and just found one of our 13 week old guineas hung with his wing and head through the wire. I cut the wire so not to cause more trauma and brought him inside. he opens his eyes and can still hold his head up but don't know if he's going to make it :( I...
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    hen left her chick

    Been a few days since I've been on the computer, but wanted to let you guys know the very next evening I went out around roosting time and couldn't find baby but there was moma in the tree... I was so sad until I looked under her and she had 4 feet!!! 2 of which were extremely small!!! The baby...
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    hen left her chick

    thank you for you encouragement! i did bring her in again last night and gave her back to moma this morning. they are still happy together the tree they roost on is right next to the enclosed pin for the young newer birds so perhaps I will try placing the chick on the roof of that pin with an...
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    My first Green Egg!!!

    how exciting!!! i wouldn't be able to crack a single one!! i would blow them all and keep them for decorations!!! i think that's the real reason my hubby only wants brown egg layers he know's we'd have eggs all over the house
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    hen left her chick

    i have a BR that is only 6 monthes old. her and all of her sisters started laying very young. well this particular young hen evidentally went broody and i didn't know it. i usually discourage them from raising broods because it is so hard to part with the cross breed roosters when they start...
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    Caught him!!!!!!!

    I have to agree on the euthanizing him you don't want to get in trouble with the law or cause him any suffering... we had a coon last winter but everytime we had the trap out we caught the neighbors cat... I guess he caught on we were after him and moved on Sure hope he doesn't come back...
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    Guineas with chickens? Is that possible?

    Hello I have had chickens and guineas together for 2 years now!! They got along GREAT until last fall and our rooster he was a rescued ex-(asin wasn't good enough to make it) fighting breed;he was being protective of a hen and her small clutch... He had never shown any aggression towards my...
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    nostril comb and face very swollen and blistery looking - IMAGE

    Thank you for your advice!!! Unfortunately she got very lethargic and eyes were almost completely shut this evening My husband and I disgused it would be in the best intrest of the her and the flock to let her go... I just can't stand to see any of my animals suffer and think it was best for...
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    nostril comb and face very swollen and blistery looking - IMAGE

    Thank you!! I'm going to go pull her out of the yard right now... Thank you so much!!!
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    nostril comb and face very swollen and blistery looking - IMAGE

    Hello everyone! My hen (her mom was a barred rock daddy some kind of game chicken) is 10 months old. She hatched 2 chicks 1.5 weeks ago and I had to move her to a 5'x5' pin because one of my other chickens killed one of the babies. She was in the pin with the baby until 4 days ago and I turned...
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