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    I think she just died...

    Thanks. She was stunning looking with her lacing. I'd like to know but don't think I have the stomach for the examination. I didn't feel an egg so she may not have been egg bound and from others' posts it seems like she should have been in the nest box straining and lasted longer. I sort of...
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    I think she just died...

    Everyone appeared happy and healthy yesterday afternoon. Everyone says my chickens look so healthy. My one-year old SLW laid an egg yesterday morning, there was a little poop on it (usually there's not). This morning the SLW is huddled up in a small spot outside and I pull her out and put her...
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    1 chicken - help

    Not hidden. The others will bully her around the food, but everything is big enough that she can just move around and get at it from another angle (e.g., when I throw scratch down or give treats). She looks in beautiful shape. Really sometimes they just look at her and she squawks and moves...
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    1 chicken - help

    Hello All - I have 5 chickens of various breeds that are 1 year old. Last July they all started laying eggs, but the Black Minorca only laid for 2 weeks and then stopped and hasn't laid since. She is at the bottom of the pecking order, but is never bloody or missing feathers - it's more bark...
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    death from impacted crop?

    So, sadly I just finished burying my first chicken (and hopefully last) that died - my only Cuckoo Marans. She was hatched late Feb. and had been laying for about 6 weeks. She stopped eating a couple days ago and looked lethargic, was isolating herself and had a big squishy crop. She drank a...
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    chicken off - please help

    To be clear, the CM is currently not eating - I meant she has (before this) had the biggest appetite.
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    chicken off - please help

    Thanks. The new organic layer mash has no mold and appears in good coniditon. Their only access to mold was on the few peaches. So, I'm torn between it being mold from the peaches or something new from the new food. Good ideas, I will try changing back and the ACV. The CM who really seems to...
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    chicken off - please help

    I have 6 chickens that hatched out in Feb and all has been going well with the egg-laying and health... until now. Background - They have been enjoying summer's bounty - bruised peaches and plums and zucchinis that have grown too large. Unfortunately someone threw in some peaches that had some...
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    A revenge kill of two cats for my baby chickens

    As with most predators, the cat would have eaten the chick and it would have gone to good use. Did you eat the cats? If you had, it wouldn't be so disturbing given the one cat was feral. Predator/prey, it's natural and healthy and needed for the way ecosystems function. A carnivore can't just...
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    Post here if you DON'T wash clean-looking eggs

    I don't wash with water, but if there's anything on them at all, I clean it before going into the carton (most eggs are clean). I either brush it off with a brush or buff it off with fine sandpaper. I heard this was preferred to washing with water. I store in the fridge because they keep...
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    same diet, different eggs

    So, I have 6 chickens: 2 RIRs hatched early Feb., and then 4 hatched late Feb (SLW, EE, Cuckoo Marans, and a black Minorca). July 5-6 the RIRs and SLW started laying small, adorable eggs - the smaller RIR and the SLW have been laying daily ever since (well, the SLW missed one day) - their eggs...
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    What age do you put "fake" egg in nesting boxes?

    My birds ignored their nest box until I took the heat lamp out of the coop. Then the 6-8 week old chicks all piled into the one nest box, all on top of each other. I let them as presumably it kept them warm. But, as they got bigger and couldn't all fit (and there was a fair bit of squabbling...
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    What is your Chicken's Favourite Food? (List 3 only)

    I've just started feeding my 8 week old birds different things. They do like yogurt (I usually mix is with dusty feed) or cooked oatmeal. They love little pieces of bread or tortilla shell - the problem is my 15 yr old black lab is jealous and the chickens are faster then her, so I throw aside...
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    one bird resistant to chicken nipples!

    I have 6 girls that are 7-9 weeks old now outside in a coop with a run. Two weeks ago I put a bucket with 3 of those chicken water nipples in the coop and took out their old bowl. I showed them all how to drink from it and I think they do, except for one. Basically I still have a bowl out in...
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    Tractor Supply Pine Shavings

    I was at my farm supply place and they had baby chicks there and on some type of pellets - they kind of clumped up around the poop. I asked about them (I've been using shavings) and she said they were pine pellets and they were great for bedding. They don't seem very 'snuggly' for the chicks...
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