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    Coop fire

    Without going into details as to how it happened - I had a coop fire this morning. It's a small coop and I only had three birds (note "had"). One of my girls is in my spare bathroom in ICU. She's lost an eye, her comb/wattles/ears are badly burned, and she lost a lot of feathers but I can't...
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    Nasty butt, nasty poop, and straining to lay ...

    Well, go figure. I caught the same chicken on the nest box this morning, she popped that egg out in a very businesslike no-muss, no-fuss fashion. No straining, no messy leaking, no weird red produding membranes. The egg was just a bit wetter than I expect a dropped-this-instant egg to be but...
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    Nasty butt, nasty poop, and straining to lay ...

    One of my birds went through her molt in late summer. She started laying again a couple of weeks ago and now she's...not good. Symptoms: * Straining to pass the egg, with a red, swollen protruding vent; the two times I've been able to observe this chicken in the nest box I can see one side of...
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