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    Old hen question

    I reckon Babs is pretty old for a bird, she's just over 3. Anyway I was wondering about something. She hasn't laid in like 6 months, which is fine because I don't need or want eggs particularly, just a happy bird. I wrote a bit ago about her pal Ginge, who sadly died a few weeks back. I got her...
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    Egg bound advice?

    I had a bird that was (sort of) egg bound, I think she actually turned into an internal layer. But I can tell you what I did and maybe it'll give you something else to try? I gave her a bath like you, but put Epsom salts in the water. My brother's fiancé, who happens to be a doctor, put a...
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    Aggressive hen attacking new birds

    Hi everyone, I only seem to post in the emergency section! Sadly poor Ginger died a fortnight ago :( Babs was really depressed, which I know sounds silly. But she seemed to forget how to 'chicken' if that makes sense. She ate very little and just stood under their favourite hedge looking for...
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    Sick hen, egg laying problem?

    I'm afraid I had to google lash egg, as i'd never heard of it. Just...wow. So many gross pictures! But she did lay something similar a little after she'd had a week of an intensive live yogurt diet. I assumed it was all the built up egg debris. To be honest, she never had like an 'obstruction'...
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    Sick hen, egg laying problem?

    Thank you so much for the advice. I'd kind of decided a long time ago that she was too damaged internally to lay and as long as she was healthy and happy, I was at peace with it. She's quite tame, I've just had a feel and she doesn't seem to be bloated. Though that might be a conclusion made by...
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    Sick hen, egg laying problem?

    Hi all I'm not sure whether this is a sick hen, she isn't 'unwell' (still eating, drinking, sociable etc) but she clearly is 'not right'. Please excuse the chicken poo study that will follow! Ginger is about 2 years old and a hybrid. She came from a very reliable farm that have been...
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    Injured chuck - pecking or worse?

    Hey everyone! I hope someone might be able to help me. I'm at my wits end with my chucks, mostly because I can't find any kind of solution, nor can anyone else I know. Please forgive the long post, but I would really appreciate it if someone would bear with me and read on, because I am fairly...
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    My Hen won't shut up??!!

    I'll start by saying I have not had chickens for long and I am in no way an expert. One of my chickens is super noisy, but she's fine. I bought them from a chicken farmer who said she was always noisy. Maybe yours is just a noisy chuck? Mine makes a variety of noises non stop, and her cluck...
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    2 eggs in 1 day. Paranoia begins here!

    Hi everyone! I recently got 2 chickens for my birthday in june, so I've had them about a month. I've never had them before and I don't really know anyone whose had them, so I've no one to ask. I'm new to all of this, so please nobody mock my probable paranoia :P I've got two chucks - an amber...
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