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    illinois towns that allow backyard chickens

    After reading the thread, I saw that the last mention of Wauconda, IL was back in 2012 or 2013 and it had no definitive Yes or No about having birds in city limits. I moved up here in 2014 into a condo and sold my previous flock, and now after a few years of saving my husband and I are looking...
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    3 day old hen hatched chicks have gross eyes

    There is no symptoms of anything in the rest of my flock. No sudden deaths or anything like that
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    3 day old hen hatched chicks have gross eyes

    So my hen decided to hatch her own eggs (well probably none of hers but everyone else's) and they hatched on the 21st. I was not home at the time, on a trip cross the state so my father kept an eye on them. I came home last night and noticed their eyes were goopy and that they probably couldnt...
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    Rooster being Aggressive

    Thanks I will have a read through and give the options a shot.
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    Rooster being Aggressive

    One of my Roosters, a beautiful 26 week old Lakenvelder named Cacciatore, has become aggressive to my spouce and I. He randomly attacks me when I am in the yard, I'll be walking along and minding my own buisness and then he comes running up and if I am not fast enough with my cane he crashes...
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    Random unidentified fluffball is now identified

    Thanks everyone, now I know what ladies to buy him @CochinBrahmaLover he is scruffy because he is one of now 5 boys and not enough girls. The dominant male picks on him and my polish quite often, not anything major, but he is the lowest on the pecking order from what I have observed. @aoxa...
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    Random unidentified fluffball is now identified

    My 1st order of chicks arrived in May and the free mystery chick they included became my large fluffball Nugget. I default to calling Nugget a he but he hasnt crowed yet nor has he layed an egg so I dont know for positive yet. I am planning on an order for chicks in the early spring (March) and...
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    HELP My Roo is sick

    Yeah my telephone book is about 30 pages thick >_> The label says 5-14 days and he is still struggling with getting healthy so im gonna try tube feeding for a few days, just gotta get the supplies and hope it comes to less then the cash in my pocket
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    HELP My Roo is sick

    I saw dramatic improvement this afternoon, DH came down to check on the bird while I slept and his exact words were "Dinner is gone." He somehow managed to get out of the box and outside and some of his fellow flock mates were hanging around with him and he was trying to get back to the coop. We...
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    HELP My Roo is sick

    So my boy is still going, I have managed about 1/2 a cup of water and pureed food in water down him in the last 24 hours, I am sure its not enough but better then none at all. This morning he has no balance and his head is tilted to one side, sort of like a child with an ear infection, his...
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    HELP My Roo is sick

    Thanks he is looking a bit better, well more alert and mobile this evening, he is still not volentarily eating or drinking but I think I found a solution inspired by the feeding tube link He is accepting his regular food pureed in the medicated water, he ate about a tablespoon off the tip of a...
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    Does anyone raise Silver Spangled Hamburgs?

    Mine is beautiful but the most flighty of all my birds, you look at her funny and she is across the yard
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    HELP My Roo is sick

    I imagine only a few drops at a time, he has not expressed any intrest in food since I brought him inside barely any intrest in the water that I have forced him to drink. But I have been persistant with the syringe I have and he has had about 1/4 cup of water in the last 12 hours I cant help but...
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    HELP My Roo is sick

    My boy, Dinner, a 21 week old white face black spanish, came down with something. His beak is filled with, for lack of better term, snot, he stands/sits with his tail up in the air and his head down. He shifts around occassionally, his poops are very liquidy brightish limetoned yellow, with...
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    6 week old chick lethargic

    I know their current feed is unmedicated, I am unsure about what I fed them originally. So I guess I will go grab some meds tomorrow. I hope she survives that long.
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