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Is it safe to butcher & eat the meat from 2 stags with fowl pox?.....hate to completely waste them

Have a American Game hen that hatched who knows where that showed up with 8 chicks, 2 days before I heard chicks peeping & found 2 chicks at the back of the yard, no mother, have them in box with a light, etc. It's possible they are from the same hen that showed up 3 days later. My question is...

Introduced 2 new hens (after guarantine) & they started fighting, I noticed my only resident EE was falling down when they attacked each other & seemed to have trouble getting back up. I've never noticed her having a problem until the new ones came in & the fights started. It's been several...

2 Egyptian geese showed up in my back yard a few days ago, they were here then gone but are back today actually on the ground this time eating my feed I put out for my chickens. My question: What do they eat different from what I'm feeding my chickens? I feed fermented feed

He showed up in my backyard, I thought he might be a RIR but looking at pictures it looks like they have yellow legs? He has silver legs, any idea what he may be? :idunno

Which thread should I be in to post a picture of a pigeon we caught today to find out what kind it is? I know it's not one of the regular "feral" pigeons that land in my yard eating the scratch I throw out for my chickens, it was kind of stand offish from them & we could practically walk up to...

I don't know if it's alright to post pictures of stuff for sale :idunno so someone let me know, otherwise pm me. I have 6 nylon & 1 rubber 7' tethers, 12 nylon leg hitches & 4 rubber hitches :frow

Until a week or so ago I had no problem posting pictures, now I can't get any pictures posted or even put any in an album in my profile. I'm using the same Mac computer I've always used. I even tried restarting Safari. I'm at my wits end trying to get this to work-all I get everytime I try is...

My GLW 4 1/2 mo. old pullet was acting like she didn't feel good a few days ago but seemed ok yesterday but today she is walking unsteady like her legs won't hold her up right. Any guesses as to what is wrong? I had someone mention on the Wyandotte thread about Marek's disease but I have no clue...

How long can a hen be off her eggs if their within days of the hatching time? Have a hen setting on eggs under our propane tank, found her in the barn looking like something tried to get her + all wet(it's raining & had already rained 2")she went back on the eggs but I have no way of knowing how...

Can a 4 month old chicken recognize his mother when he runs into her or is that something that doesn't happen in the chicken world? Owner of 3 Bantams, 30 American Games, 5 racehorses, 1 Longhorn cross heifer, 15 Painted Desert sheep, 4 goats, several cats and 1 housedog.

I found 7 eggs, she just layed one so she's not setting yet, are the eggs OK to eat unrefrigerated for a week?