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    Abandoned Hens

    Someone dropped 7 Rhode Island off down the road from our home abut a month ago. We were visiting a neighbor and heard gun shots so he guys went to see what was going on. The hens were all perched in a tree on the road. We fed them and watered them twice a day and spent time each day talking...
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    waddling like a duck

    How do I check to see if she is?
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    How big/small is your town?

    We have 932 in our town. 90% dirt roads, one store, 1 church, no police, volunteer fire dept, blinking light and 1 school pre K-5.
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    waddling like a duck

    One of my chickens is waddling like a duck. Her cone is a pale red, she seems to be breathing heavy, and the area under her vent is so large it is almost on the ground. She is still active and normal acting other then what I have mentioned. Any suggestions?
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    I have a question for anyone. We are new to the chicken thing. We let them roam free and they seem to love it(we have four). They will come to us an stick there neck out and that means they want to be petted. We only get about a half dozen swipes and they walk away. Our problem is they love...
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    Are my EE's both pullets?

    They look like pullets to me. 4 weeks old they look small. We have 5 pullets and they are 2 weeks old and not half the size of the others.
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    4 weeks old loosing feathers on neck and wing

    I am very worried about 2 of our baby chicks. One lost most of her baby feathers on her neck and when I noticed her neck was raw. I removed her from her 25 sisters and have been putting vaseline on it for two days the raw spot is clearing up and is just pink now. She is also loosing all the...
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    impacted crop, huge,hard,not responding to treatment

    :(My NHR has a massive crop it is not hard though. She just sits and doesn't want to move at all. She waddles instead of walking normal. We brough her into the house lastnight and made her a bed in the basement. I gave her some mashed baby meat sticks and some mashed bananas with soft boiled...
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    Here from Maine

    anyone from Maine on here
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    Putting 'fake eggs' in the chicken coop

    I put plastic eggs in there nesting boxes and they broke. So I put wooden ones in them. All 12 of our chickens thought that were all going to use on box. Now they have there own boxes. If one of the wooden ones gets knocked out of the box, someone will lay an egg next to it on the floor. I...
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    Egg bound?

    I have an issue with one of my N.H. Reds. She is eating and drinking but seems to be bloated she walks kind of funny almost a waddle to her walk. It is hard to tell if she is egg bound or not since the other chickens lay and I can't tell who is doing the laying and who is not. How can I tell...
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    Maine

    Hi everyone, We are from Pownal. We have 2 Reds and 10 Black Astralops. It was a very cold winter last year and we didn't insulate there coop. It is a shed we got from Lowes last year 8x10. I wish we had insulated this year. They have a heat lamp in there and it is just to keep there water...
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    walking sideways & molting I think

    One of my 1 1/2 yr old reds is molting I think(she is the only one) I can handle how terrible she looks but what I don't understand is why she is walking sideways. When she walks her legs seem to buckle under her(she almost sits on the ground) and she walks sideways from time to time and then...
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    Sick R.R. HELP

    Thank you so much. None of the chickens have been wormed. I will go to the feed store tomorrow and get some stuff and worm them all. She just looks so sad. She did eat a little egg w/ honey and corn meal today. She also has drank more today then yesterday. Again thank you so much.
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    Sick R.R. HELP

    I have 3 R.R. 5 Astralops and 6 Sex linkes, I noticed the other day that one of my reds (1 1/2 yrs) was just not mixing with the others like always and she just wanted to sleep. Yesterday her comb was laying to one side and her poo was a pale yellow and pasty. When they went into the house...
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    Hello from Maine

    I'm also from maine, just outside Freeport in the woods. We had 6 RI reds last year and we lost 3 to the wild animals. We just got 6 black astralops and 6 black sex links. I didn't remember that they grew so fast. These guys are just 3 weeks old and they are flying out of there box already...
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    Keeping chickens out of garden?

    So now that I know how to keep them out of the garden how do I keep them out of my garage? I am tired of cleaning up there poop and it stinks.
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