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Hey all. We have a hen who we thought was egg bound. Tried salt bath and also two doses of lubricant into her vent with no change. She’s not acting quite like other hens who have been egg bound. She seems alert and (kinda) active. Lots of poop under her vent but the vent hole is clear. She feels...

How do people keep wild birds from eating the chicken food? I am suspecting that those little birds are emptying the bowls on a regular basis. Any thoughts would be great. Putting the bowls inside the coop or putting mesh over the whole chicken area are not options for me.

Yeah, it's actually both legs completely turned the wrong direction. I put her to the bowl of food but she's also barely eating or drinking.

The whole leg is bent in and she can barely walk without falling over.

Hey there, We had a baby hatch with deformed feet. The others that hatched look great so the incubator temp and humidity worked fine for them. She is not getting to the water and food regularly and it is not getting any better after a day or two. The others are pecking at her deformed leg and...

Hi. Just to follow up on this very late. It was a vitamin problem. We give the m at birds liquid vitamins in their water now and have not had any more problems. Just in case someone else has this issue, try vitamins.

He's a fairly large Moran mix. Actually, he's the best rooster because he doesn't crow much at all :-) He was going to be the replacement for the egg flock rooster but maybe I could repurpose him.

I do have one other rooster that I could substitute with. However, he is a part of the egg flock which is right next to the meat flock pen. I thought about using him, but am afraid that it won't work because he'll be focused on getting back the egg flock instead of settling in with the meat...

Hi All, I have a conundrum. I started a meat flock last spring with 5 hens and a rooster. They are Rangers that I held out from a batch I got in the spring. My goal is to have a self-sustaining meat flock. Everything is going fine, except for the rooster. I've never had a rooster that crows...

I'm going to quarantine that group of chickens. There are only 7 left in that tractor. I'm watching the other tractor to see if any of them show signs too. There are all from the same shipment, so they are probably all at risk. I guess I won't be integrating any of these with the egg flock! What...

Update. The chicken died.

That's a good point. I didn't go with FR because they have a recessive dwarfism gene that effects their offspring. The RR don't have this. In terms of egg production, we get plenty of eggs already. I just wanted to add more meat breeds in because we normally incubate our own eggs rather than buy...

I got my RR from a place in Penn too. Probably the same as you. I had 3 die in the first couple weeks, 4 got eaten by a weasel, and 2 got this leg issue so far. Out of 25, I'm running out of chickens! I got the RR instead of the FR because i was hoping to augment my egg flock with some of...

I went with the RR instead of the CX to avoid the health issues that I'd heard about in the CX because of their extreme growth rate and size. Most of my RR are just fine. So far only 2 have had this issue. I'm still a few weeks away from processing them. Hopefully no more will get this!

I don't believe they were vaccinated. the place I ordered them from gave them a booster shot of some sort before shipping, but I think it was just antibiotics. I don't have a lot of birds and the meat chickens are kept separate from my small egg flock. Any concerns with eating birds that have...

I'm not 100% sure, but I think this second bird is a rooster. I think you are right, and I should just process this one early. The first bird that had this problem I processed early because she looked like she wasn't going to make it anyway. I'm processing them myself.