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    Rooster attack

    My point was that he was that bad, but that behavior has changed with training. He was around 6mos when that happened, and he is now 1.5 years.
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    Rooster attack

    This "rough housing" is a mere fraction of the time. He has many great qualities in spades. He is extremely gentile with my girls, finds them good quality food. He is also a great peace maker in the flock. He appears to have adopted my new cockerel and is a peace maker between him and the other...
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    Rooster attack

    Is he actually attacking your hen or is he merely overzealous in his mating? If he is attacking her you need to seperate him, if he is just hormonal you might try a saddle on her. It seems like at the beginning the young roosters have surging hormones. For some reason they go crazy for my rhode...
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    Questions on mixing Guineas with chickens

    I have have owned guineas two years come March. Raised most of them from day one with my chickens. The males do chase the chickens and pull tail feathers. They live for the chase. They love when I chase them around the yard. The female guineas, for the most part, are mellow, but loud. There is...
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    what’s this on my chickens foot?

    If they come off easily, sure. If they seem to be damaged scales or flesh, no. In the later case, I would soak her feet in some warm water and see if that will loosen the injured portion for you to get a better look at it.
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    How to fix dusty coop?

    Wetting the soil will keep the dust down, but it will promote problems like parasitic worms and coccidosis. Dirt floor...will likely always be dusty. However...If your soil is silty or clay it would make more dust. You could dig out the top layer of the soil in your coop and replace it with...
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    Re-integrating a hen recovering from a neck wound...

    If you are keeping her in a seperate pen, I would put another bird in the pen with her (one of the birds lower on your pecking order). If they aren't getting along (bad violence), put a different bird with her. Once those they seem to be have adjusted to eachother (couple days) add an additional...
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    what’s this on my chickens foot?

    Wow, never seen anything like it! I have had bumblefoot on the top of the foot, but it looked like swelling and then turned into open puss filled sores. Are the scales where the black spots are split?
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    Is it bad to look a rooster straight in the eyes?

    I think that looking any animal in the eye shows that you have no fear of them. If you consider your own chickens' pecking order, the dominant birds look and strut toward birds lower than themselves, and those birds shy away. So, I would think that looking a rooster in the eye would be...
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    HELP ASAP

    When I got tapeworms for the first time, I felt the same way. You're not alone! I think I brought some onto my property by feeding them dried mealworms, but I also was have trouble with sawtoothed beetles in my feed. What is most important to know about tapeworms is that they cannot complete...
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    My chicken's eye is swollen and she is lethargic...

    I wonder if they feel cold. I realized that my chickens preferred diagonal perches and liked to be near corners (between 2 walls).
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    My chicken's eye is swollen and she is lethargic...

    How does the chicken house smell? Any ammonia fumes? Do you use pine shavings? If so, is there a chemical smell to the shavings? Just trying to rule things out...
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    Chicken acting lethargic with other symptoms

    They normally keep laying until they have a full clutch (~8 eggs), then stop. Does she seem hot? If she is hot, she may be passing water to cool down. She may be pale from dehydration... I have noticed that if my hens are dehydrated they have trouble focusing with their eyes and their pupil...
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    Labored breathing and hard crop

    Once the difficulty breathing started it was about a day and a half.
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    Chicken acting lethargic with other symptoms

    Does the watery poop look like egg whites? Has she lost weight? Are her pupils dialating?
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