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    Bumblefoot Mystery

    I've been dealing with Bumble foot off and on and after my first round of cleaning and changing bandages every day, I now clean, apply antibiotic ointment and wait a couple of days. Then repeat. So far, after removing the bandage the second time, the Bumble is soft and comes right out. Then I...
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    I came home to find my hen, Bob, breathing heavy and wheezing. Please help!

    I've had Bob inside since I found her in such condition yesterday, so approximately 12 hours, and she's niether pooped nor laid an egg. So my next step is to let her set in warm Epson salts water to hopefully help if there is a stuck egg, and also to clean her up. She has eaten and she is...
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    I came home to find my hen, Bob, breathing heavy and wheezing. Please help!

    yes, I definitely isolated her.
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    I came home to find my hen, Bob, breathing heavy and wheezing. Please help!

    One of the other hens was pecking her and there was blood on her head where I assume she'd been getting pecked multiple times. I picked her up and looked her over and found that her bottom was extremely dirty, with a lot of dried poop and nasty feathers. Her vent was open with no redness or...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    whew! I think I broke a sweat just reading that.
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    A warm 82 degrees here in central Missouri.
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    Who has chicken and ducks living together???

    I've had concerns about the feed situation. I have 2 runner/pekin mix ducks...a male and a female....and I have 6 chickens, all hens. They all have free roam of the yard, which is fenced in. The chickens have a coop inside of a run where I have always kept their food and water. The ducks have...
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    How to best break a broody hen?

    Thanks for the suggestion. I have heard that that can sometimes help. I'd like to have more chick's, but...my sister (and, the home owner) says no, lol. We do have 3 roosters, who happen to be quite interested, but they are Bantams and quite mean.
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    How to best break a broody hen?

    I have a hen that has been staying on the unfertilized eggs, and then staying in the empty nesting box after the eggs are removed. I like your advice and plan to start trying something similar in the morning. 😊
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    Genders

    When I got my ducks I was told that they are Pekin-Runner mix
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    Genders

    W Which are Cayugas? I have ducks that look like the dark one with the white breast in your photo. Mine are mostly black, one with th full white breast and the other is mottled and both have iridescent green and blue. One is slightly smaller than the other and it still peeps and sometimes...
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    Official BYC Poll: Which of These Black Chicken Breeds Do You Have?

    I have a black Old English Bantam rooster. Believed it to be a pullet when I bought it. He is quite beautiful to look at.
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    Why are my 7 week old ducklings suddenly eating A LOT of grit?

    Thank you! That's very helpful.
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    Why are my 7 week old ducklings suddenly eating A LOT of grit?

    What is grit? Should I be giving it to my ducks? Right now all I give them is duck food.
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    Timothy hay for ducklings

    These 2 seem to be connected at the hip, lol. They hate being separated and yell at the top of their lungs until they're able to touch again. I put them outside for quite a while yesterday, as it was in the high 70's, and they made themselves at home. I have 5 hens that free range and they just...
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