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    Turkey hens fighting. How can I stop them?

    Yes, spring does make all animals have that change in behavior. I just found it interesting that when I put it on the calendar, it was almost exactly a month apart each time, this started even as early as December. I just love observing them and cataloging all my birds behavior helps me in what...
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    Turkey hens fighting. How can I stop them?

    Then what's the proper word? It seems to be cyclical I could very well be wrong. I put it in quotes cause I couldn't figure what else to call it. I'm still new to them.
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    Turkey hens fighting. How can I stop them?

    I just started raising turkeys myself! I have "white holland" crosses, my estimate is that they are at least 75% full white holland and not the Broad Breasted Whites, their stance is good and their bodies are fair and not so rounded out. Anywho, my toms started fighting I have 2 toms and 1 hen...
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    Help! Chicken lost tons of weight/ and molting-pictures included

    Or does anyone know of an avian vet in new hampshire or maine????.....
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    Help! Chicken lost tons of weight/ and molting-pictures included

    My chicken Lela has lost a lot of weight and I thought at first had to do with the stress of her hard molt. After watching her for the past couple of weeks, and giving her lobster shell, feather fixer pellets, and deworming her with Wazine. I am at loss of what else to do. Today she didn't even...
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    Diagnosing help

    The chicken, her name is Lela :) was going into molt but her body was still producing all the ingredients for making an egg but sometimes when they start devoting the calcium in their system to creating new feathers the egg shell quality will suffer. As with Lela she started laying some really...
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    Diagnosing help

    Sav-a-chick is available at most local hardware stores, if you go to tractor supply they'll have the bigger yellow baggies of it instead of single serve packets. Just read the dosage amounts and mix with their water. I have an ISA brown that was acting the same way and I watched her for a bit...
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    My chicken is seriously injured and I don't know what to do.

    The exact same thing happened to my bird, her entire back was missing feathers and all. We took her to the vet as her wing was half torn off as well. They stitched her wing and gave her antibiotics and cleaned her back wound. Surprisingly enough with our care and her treatment she survived and...
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    No good deed goes unpunished.....

    That's great! I know there has to be a good place for her, where she and you can be worry free. Transition is hard but peace will follow.
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    No good deed goes unpunished.....

    Sorry for your loss, watching a bird die or picking up the pieces is something a bird owner never wants to experience. I've had losses with neighborhood dogs who wiped out all but 2 of my 8 week old pullets. When we got our own dog, he was trained as a puppy. So I can't imagine the time...
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    Mystery poo - the chicken with the ink poop

    Thank you all for the quick responses and suggestions, this is my first rehab endeavour. I just looked in on them I thought they were both laying, but it seems they're just chilling out for the time being. The quarantine crate is small but I think they're enjoying the indoor time. It's been in...
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    Mystery poo - the chicken with the ink poop

    I've got worming treatment, see if I can get them started. We've only had them for 12 hours now. I looked up black poo too thank you for doing so, but like you said there weren't too many conclusive results. I know these girls haven't gotten he proper nutrition they needed so maybe this poo...
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    Mystery poo - the chicken with the ink poop

    Yeah it did look like that, without the bits, maybe even darker :( Okay, well I'm hoping she'll pull through somehow. I've got her on electrolytes now. Otherwise she's not acting sick or listless, she's eating proper too. I feel terrible..
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    Mystery poo - the chicken with the ink poop

    Recently we took on 2 chickens who NEEDED a home. The conditions they were in we're not ideal, their food was also incorrect to say the least. Brought them home last night, got them on proper layer mash and water. Today they're perky and relatively calm but one pooed a poo that I have never...
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 12/30/13 - Picture by Ruby Mia

    "YOU ShALL NoT PASS!"
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