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    Lethargic chick (3 mo's)...need help, please!

    Hello everyone! I hope I am not being too optimistic, but I think today was a good day for Lucky. Thanks to everyone's knowledge + advice, my husband picked up crumbles and grit for her. I went to Wal-Mart and picked up poly-visol vitamin (thanks, it was in the exact location you mentioned in...
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    HELP! I think my chicken has NARCOLEPSY!

    Hello everyone! I hope I am not being too optimistic, but I think today was a good day for Lucky. Thanks to everyone's knowledge + advice, my husband picked up crumbles and grit for her. I went to Wal-Mart and picked up poly-visol vitamin (thanks, it was in the exact location you mentioned in...
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    HELP! I think my chicken has NARCOLEPSY!

    Hello...here's the latest. I checked the bag and my husband told me that she is on grower pellets. The feed came in a big feed bag without any information on it. This afternoon Lucky ate some bits of peaches and drank tomato juice and seeds. I gave her a little bit of gatorade, but she didn't...
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    HELP! I think my chicken has NARCOLEPSY!

    Sorry, I thought I had this listed under Emergencies... She's about 3 months old and in addition to regular chick feed that you buy from the feedmill, she eats crickets, bugs and grass. As of this past week though, she has only been eating chick feed and crickets that we give her by hand since...
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    HELP! I think my chicken has NARCOLEPSY!

    "Lucky", our sole survivor of a fox attack is in need of help! (she lost her mother and 2 sisters) She seemed fine until last week... She is now chronically sleepy and can barely keep her eyes open. She could be in the middle of eating and then within seconds fall asleep. Can she have...
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    Lethargic chick (3 mo's)...need help, please!

    "Lucky", our sole survivor of a fox attack is in need of help! (she lost her mother and 2 sisters) She seemed fine until last week... She is now chronically sleepy and can barely keep her eyes open. She could be in the middle of eating and then within seconds fall asleep. Can she have...
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    Help...first time...2 broody hens!!!!!!!!!

    CAranchgirl, THANK YOU for answering my questions. I didn't know the eggs hatch underneath the mother hen! (I didn't think they could breathe) I will wait until they all hatch (let's hope) and then will separate them from the rest of the gang. Again, thanks to everyone for your help. I am so...
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    Help...first time...2 broody hens!!!!!!!!!

    Thanks for all the helpful advice! I am glad we checked, the one broody hen was sitting on eggs that weren't fertile (Araucana...Easter Egg chicken + bantam rooster) We had a feeling they weren't mating. However, we did have better luck with the smaller hens laying eggs that were fertilized...
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    Help...first time...2 broody hens!!!!!!!!!

    Hello! We have 4 hens + 1 rooster. Two of the hens have been sitting on eggs (we believe some are theirs + some are the others). It has been about 2 weeks... We'd love to have baby chicks, however, we're not sure of the process. First, should we continue to let the hens sit on the eggs in...
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    FREE Roos to good home in PA! Would like happy hens to trade?!

    FREE TO A GOOD HOME! We have 3 very handsome roosters that are 3 months old (purchased as chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery) that we must sadly part with... (we thought we were getting all hens!) RED COCHIN BR RED GAME JAPANESE BUFF They are all healthy and happy, just boys...
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    More roos! Suggestions on how to get rid of them and how to get hens?!

    We recently found out that we now have 4 more roosters! We gave 1 away to the farmer down the road, but still have 3 more! Any ideas on how I can find them a new home? We now have 6 hens that are 3 months old and we'd like to double it to 12. (We are fairly new and purchased bantams and...
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    Chicken pecked...almost 1 week and not eating...I'm worried!!!!!

    Hello again. I am really worried about Yuyu. It will be a week soon and she has gotten weaker. She was pecked in the head severely and her one eye is almost always closed. Thanks to everyone's suggestions, I cleaned her head, rinsed her eye with saline, and gave her electrolytes in her water...
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    PLS HELP! Yuyu's head pecked severely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Two days ago I walked out to find my favorite chicken, YUYU, practically pecked to death. All of the feathers are gone on her head and her comb is pecked severely. She was bleeding so badly that I am worried her scalp was torn! I separated her from the group immediately (14 girls). Anyway, she...
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    Can chickens eat all types of herbs?

    Thank you very much for all of your helpful information! My girls really appreciate it!
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    Can chickens eat all types of herbs?

    Hello...my girls are 7 weeks old. Can I give them herbs to eat from the garden? Basil, mint, etc?
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