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    Chicken crushed and injured by falling gate

    I'm hoping for some advice. We had a sad accident happen the other day to our poor Polish, Lincoln. Our gate post suddenly failed and the gate fell over on her, very fast and hard. She was hit by the heaviest part of the gate, the wooden frame. She was obviously very injured, not able to support...
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    Coughing chicken... eucalyptus allergy?

    Hi all, My girl has this terrible cough and gasping. She got it a year or so ago, we took her to the vet, gave her antibiotics, nothing helped much. She kept eating, drinking, laying eggs. None of the other chickens in the flock got it. Finally it just went away and was been gone for months...
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    Help! 3 year old hen very thin, then poopy rear, then limping...

    Help! My poor little Rhode Island Red, "Red", has had such troubles. A year ago she started laying her eggs into her abdomen, got an infection, went on antibiotics, and got well. The vet said it would keep happening and it did. We did another round of antibiotics... again she was cured. After...
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    Hen-pecked pullet with twisted beak

    Hi all, Here's the situation: I have three layers and recently got three chicks, one of which turned out to have twisted beak. Now the chicks are 9 weeks old, and all the chickens have free run of our large yard. They seem to run in two flocks during the day, the little ones running whenever...
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