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    2 hens on one leg (see pic)

    2 of my 4 hens have injured legs. The worst one (Goldstar) must have happened yesterday and she never puts the bad one down and must hop on one leg while flapping her wings for balance. I see no injuries on it and I squeezed it and found no reaction to tender spots. There was blood on the...
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    flicking feed

    I have a 30 pound hanging feeder and it usually has the little pellets of feed in it. They have never spilled any out. I bought a different type from another feed store that was little crumbs and in 3 days my two hens knocked 20 of the 30 pounds out allover the coop floor all by themselves...
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    Swollen Ears

    My pullet has battled and beat a respiratory infection with her eyes getting stuck shut by using Terramycin, but now her ears are very swollen. Why? And what should I do?
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    Could it be molting? pics

    This is my first year of chickening so I don’t know what molting looks like. In addition, she is only 7 months old. She preens herself and pulls out a lot of feathers. At first I thought it was mites even though I didn’t find any so I treated her with 2 powders and a flea bath. After all this...
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    Self picking, head shaking, wheezing, and eyes stuck shut

    I have two hens one is healthy and one is sick. The sick one pulls out her own feather from her back and under her wings. They are all over the coop She is congested and wheezes, both eyes are sealed shut. I have also noticed that she shakes her head a lot. She has energy but look awful...
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    Sick Eye and feathers/ skin with pics

    My feather-footed pullet that should be laying any day now is not looking too hot. She has a patch of missing feathers on her back and her wingpits. The skin doesn’t look too good of her back, it’s vey red. Also, one of her eyes is very crusty. She has been this way for a week now. I tried...
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    feathers and eye, please help (now with pics)

    My feather-footed pullet that should be laying any day now is not looking too hot. She has a patch of missing feathers on her back and her wingpits. The skin doesn’t look too good of her back, it’s vey red. Also, one of her eyes is very crusty. I tried to look for mites or something, but...
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    Won’t go in their nice coop?

    They are 3 months old and they won’t go in their coop at night. When the meat birds were with them they would all go in when it got dark. Now they started sitting on the fence rail and going to sleep, so I had to carry them into the coop every night. I removed the fence rail and raised their...
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    One of my hens just Cockadoodledoed ?

    One of my hens just Cockadoodledoed ? I ordered a bunch of meat birds that are now in the freezer and 3 hens, mcmurray also threw in a “free exotic bird” The hens are numbered as follows (I think) 1. BUFF LACED POLISH 2. LIGHT BRAHMAS 3. Free Exotic? 4. ARAUCANAS (I think this hen crowed? And...
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