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    Cold weather: free range or keep cooped?

    Your birds are even hardier than mine! I keep the doors shut at -15 C unless it's been a long run of -25 to -30C then I open the doors make sure they have access to warm food and fresh hay/straw. Wow! Colder than that and they won't move outside unless they absolutely have to! Wow!!:bow
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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    Don't worry the addiction will grow along with your experience and one day soon you'll be able to help a newbie with something you've had to deal with or even a veteran who has come up with something they've never had to deal with before but you've done where your bird(s) have not just survived...
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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    Honestly, pellets are far more expensive and less insulating than hay or straw. Good luck! Stay warm!
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    Cold weather: free range or keep cooped?

    My birds are outside all day in those temps, even when there's several feet of snow. We clear the snow throw down some straw and let them out to play. Birds get cabin fever too!
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    -40 wind chill forecasted for Friday

    Straw! Lots and lots of straw! Warm, like baby bathwater or room temperature warm water at least twice a day and maybe a heat lamp if your area and birds aren't accustomed to this kind of winter weather. Reduce or filter the ventilation, water doesn't carry well in really cold weather so...
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    Wind chill doesn’t count, right?

    I have been living and raising birds in Northern Alberta Canada hay and/ or straw is the absolute go to! 0 degrees F or lower is just an average winter for us, not the occasional cold snap. Good insulation is another absolute must. If it is just a cold snap for you, you can close the window or...
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    Extreme Cold Warning

    I'm in Northern Alberta Canada, winter is a lifestyle when doing anything. In the temps you are describing I would absolutely cover the ventilation! I have a window about the same size. Our coldest days were about -30 C I had their window open just marginally and still as packed as they were...
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Prevent Pasty Butt in Your Chicks?

    I have only had it when some egg membrane gets stuck on them right after hatching. Otherwise I wash their butts within 24 hours after hatching, acv in their water, no problemo!
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    Prolapse Phallus- 4 1/2 year old Drake

    Howard is doing great! He got the cut on Saturday. It winked out again at me this morning but it was only the tip which was perfectly sealed, healed and looking perfectly normal. So big relief! I was a little concerned that maybe I didn't take enough off. I had images of septicemia and other...
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    Prolapse Phallus- 4 1/2 year old Drake

    So I gave him the snip. there was only a drop of blood and I sealed it with some salves and oils. It popped back out yesterday evening, I pushed it back in and checked him this morning, still in. This afternoon it was popped out again (not a lot, just the tip. I cut it just below the...
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    Prolapse Phallus- 4 1/2 year old Drake

    I was going to give him a few more days but the end is dead and dragging it out won't serve him at all. Please wish me luck I'm going to give him a cut right away.
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    Prolapse Phallus- 4 1/2 year old Drake

    Thank you very much, between you and Wyorp I think I have enough information. I think I will give him another few days to a week at most to see if there is more improvement but the colour hasn't really changed in a week and I am thinking I may have to do the cut. Is there a lot of bleeding when...
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    Prolapse Phallus- 4 1/2 year old Drake

    Hi it's me with another freaking prolapse! This time with a Drake. This is way out of my comfort zone and to be honest I do not know when it actually happened. It was noticed on Saturday and my daughter and I have been treating it much the same way as we did with Helia --Shout out to the...
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    Mother Bottle

    Hi I don't know if anyone does this but I thought I would share my experience with it. After incubation when the chicks hatch I don't put them under a light anymore. I literally give them a Mother Bottle. What that is is actually a jar usually at least half a gallon to a gallon jar of you...
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    Prolapse, Re-Lapse and Recovery: Things I learned along the way

    Thank you. As I said I was terrified all the way through both times! What's funny is when I mentioned my shout out for help I actually didn't realize that I accidentally pm'd another member rather than a public cry for help. LOL! This is how technically stunted I am!😖
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    Prolapse, Re-Lapse and Recovery: Things I learned along the way

    Hi so I do not have pics to show, I don't have social media on my phone so even if I took pics I couldn't upload them because I would have to find the right cord, plug it into the right slot in the desktop computer tower then click all the right things and it's complex and scary and yeah, no. So...
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    Who was your best mama this year?

    My best mama this year is Goldie. She hatched 6 and fought off a squirrel to save her babies losing two, then she adopted 21 of my brooder chicks that I hatched. She was the reigning queen of the hen house this year!👸
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    Prolapse

    Thank you so much for your valuable insight!!! Will the calcium make her produce eggs at this point? (I really don't want that for her) Or will the trauma keep the eggs at bay until she heals? Sorry I have only done this once and the bird was a meat bird in design so she died within a few weeks...
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    I just found out the hens I bought were vaccinated with mareks vaccine and I think my rooster is sick now

    I don't know anything about mareks but I will send love and prayers for a full recovery to your rooster. I would personally do a full detox on him as if he got into poison. Charcoal from a clean source, calendula is anti inflammatory and doubles as an antibiotic, yarrow is antiseptic and boosts...
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    Prolapse

    I'm on my own today, so i'll have to wait until later to give her the sits bath. Do I have to keep her completely confined in the pet carrier or can I have her run around the outbuilding she's in?
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