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    Respiratory Disease?

    Here are the answers to the earlier post: (1 What breed is the chicken? Red star (2 how old is the chicken? 5 months old raised from a chick. (3 What are you feeding the chickens daily? Layer along with lots of greens and some food scraps. They are also free ranging. (4 does the...
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    Respiratory Disease?

    LOL! Thank you all so much for the great advice!!!
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    Respiratory Disease?

    All my chickens appear to be fine, but a friend experienced with chickens came by my coop, held one of my hens and said that she has a respiratory disease. She said she could tell this because she could feel her breastbone and that you should not be able to feel the breastbone of a chicken...
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    there's a big lump on my chicken's head--help!

    I have a chicken with the same kind of lump. Any idea what it is?
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    How Long Before A Hen Will Lay Again After Hatching Chicks?

    Our hen hatched chicks 3 weeks ago. She is being a good mama caring for her chicks. How long before she starts laying again?
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    First Hatch! Question

    We just hatched our first hatch. So far, 12 out of 18. Cute as can be! The first one came right at day 21 and now we are on to day 23 and just got number 12. We have 6 eggs left unhatched. We used eggs from several kinds of chickens, some of our own and some we got from a farm. We candled...
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    Pygmy Rattlesnake

    Thanks for all your responses. My chickens are fine after the snake episode. BTW, I am in Florida. Snakes all year around...
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    Pygmy Rattlesnake

    I am new to chickens, so this might be a stupid question, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere. Today my chickens caught and killed a pygmy rattlesnake. I couldn't get the snake away from the chickens before they ate the snake. Will this hurt them? What should I do?
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