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    Sour crop

    My 2 or 3 year old hen has sour crop. I rang the vet and they said to get tablets in the pharmacy. I'm getting them tomorrow. I'm worried she won't survive till then, what can I do? I could give her electrolytes... apple cider vinegar? Is there anything I can do to make sure she survives to get...
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    Difference between show and pet quality

    I got my 3 cayuga ducks, they are beautiful with a few white feathers among the black and greenish ones. When the owner was putting them in a box for me he said, would you like that call drake over there, he was raised with them and is their friend. So I was like of course! So now I have my 3...
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    5 week old chick mounting hen

    Haha, yes, I wish he was a pullet, but he is very friendly, so that makes up for it... If he gets on with his father, Walter, he can stay with the flock, but I doubt he will. Maybe I'll get him a few ladies 👀
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    5 week old chick mounting hen

    Hi, today my 5 week old chick Sesame has tried to mount the broody hen that raised him. Why is he doing that so early? So now I'm nearly 100% Sesame is a boy.
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    Difference between show and pet quality

    I'm getting the pet quality cayugas saturday, the only difference is that they have a couple white feathers. They are purebred but were either born with white feathers or they grew in later. I don't really mind as they will get white feathers anyway and I won't be showing them. I hope they got...
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    Difference between show and pet quality

    Hi, I might be getting 3 cayuga ducks soon. I have the choice between pet/laying or show quality. Is there much of a difference between the 2? Would show quality live longer and be healthier or would pet quality live longer and be healthier? Thanks
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    4 wk old Sesame

    Nooo, I still love him, would I be able to keep him with my other rooster and 21 hens? Or would the 2 roosters fight?
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    4 wk old Sesame

    Does Sesame look like a girl or boy to you? She is 4 weeks old tomorrow. I'm thinking I'm leaning towards boy as comb is quite big and pinkish, hopefully she's a girl. What do you think?
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    I lost one of my favourites today

    Snowy was a beauty! Pity her heart wasn't though 😂, she would chase hens and peck them and she would steal food from my mama hen Dove who was feeding her chick Sesame! She was loud aswell I loved her unique clucking!
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    I lost one of my favourites today

    This morning, when I let out my girls and saw that my 7 year old white leghorn hen, Snowy had passed away last night. She was the friendliest, sweetest girl. She ruled the roost, and all hens looked up to her or ran away from her :lau. She even laid a tiny, fairy egg every 2 weeks or so. I am...
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    Stopped laying

    Thanks, why do you think my hens laid so few eggs? Will they lay more as they mature?
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    Stopped laying

    Hi, I have 9 eggs from my 2 peahens, 4 from the 2yo and 5 from the 3yo. None of the peahens went broody. They stopped laying eggs but I can't hatch the eggs myself as I'm going on holiday for a week. Could they lay more later in the summer? I would like to try hatch some peachicks. Thanks
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    2 week old pullet or Rooster?

    Hi, this is my 2 week old chick Sesame. She was the only chick to hatch. I keep calling her a her hoping she will magically be a girl. Her comb is kinda big... does she look like a boy?
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    Covered walk in run

    I'm going to use hardwear mesh as I want to keep predators out. Cats and dogs wouldn't be an issue... but minks and weasles would be a big issue. I'll have the skirt around the run and gravel over it.
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    Covered walk in run

    Hi, in the winter time before work I have to let my hens out, it's usually quite dark and around an hour and a half till sunrise. I'm thinking of making a covered run, I know your not meant to use chicken wire, but this wire isn't the usual chicken wire the holes are much smaller and it is quite...
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