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Stynch said:

RIP Ella. My little Leghorn had just started laying last week - and was presenting us with 55-60 gram eggs every day since. This morning when I went to see how the girls fared through yet another rain storm last night, she was on the floor of the coop in total rigor. There was no evidence of any external culprit. Yesterday, she was fine - laid her egg around noon, was eating (including blueberries out of the hand) and drinking. I've lost hens before, but both times they were acting a bit "off" beforehand, so their deaths didn't come as a total shock like this one did.
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So sorry you lost her especially when she just got to POL. Sometimes you just don't know the reason, frustrating as that is.

Gimpy Quail said:
I was just looking at the quail thread and they were discussing dust baths. It was also said that if the birds are on the ground then they have to be wormed.

Is this still true in the Phoenix area? I've never seen a worm in our dust dry dirt. -not to mention it usually takes a jackhammer to dig through it anyway.

I was hoping to keep the quail in a walk-in aviary with a bare dirt floor. Will I have to worm my quail? (don't have any birds yet)
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Probably? I don't know, my quail are on wire so no contact with dirt.
 
It's still dark out but I keep hearing my young quail roos crowing. I think as soon as it's a little more light out I'm going to start processing my excess males. They are just over 6 weeks and the some of the hens have already started to lay, but the roos are getting obnoxious with their crowing. While they are not too loud they are loud enough I don't want my neighbors wondering what critter is making that strange noise in the dark.
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City farm said:
I finally took off the Velcro band.. Did not work for us.. If you do get it to work, please post!
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Ditto for me. My roo kept taking it off. He did ok with the regular velcro for about a week, then figured out how to hook his claw into 1 of the loops of the velcro, pull& off it went! After several times of that I gave up. I know he was laughing with delight when he finally declared victory!
 
Stynch said:
RIP Ella. My little Leghorn had just started laying last week - and was presenting us with 55-60 gram eggs every day since. This morning when I went to see how the girls fared through yet another rain storm last night, she was on the floor of the coop in total rigor. There was no evidence of any external culprit. Yesterday, she was fine - laid her egg around noon, was eating (including blueberries out of the hand) and drinking. I've lost hens before, but both times they were acting a bit "off" beforehand, so their deaths didn't come as a total shock like this one did.
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I am so very sorry for your loss. I had that happen with one of my girls several years ago, never knew what happened. My vet said they can have heart attacks & strokes so maybe that was it.
 
AZChiknGoddess said:
cyborg said:
I have been thinking about getting a few geese come springtime. I couldn't decide between Toulouse or Embdens, but I was just looking at Metzer Farms (a BYC sponsor), and I think I've decided to go with the Embdens. Anybody on this thread have any geese?
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I have a friend in Tucson that has a nice female goose for sale reasonable.
700

I'm no expert on geese.
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Beatiful. They are more protective.. Do it..
 

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