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    Help! Wyandotte having trouble walking, leg injury?

    Yes, it is the whitish looking lid - both of these eyelids keep closing periodically - making it appear that she's dozing on/off. Her neck is definitely spasming sideways and up and down - not very dramatically, but occasionally, forcing her to move into odd positions. She can only hold her head...
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    Help! Wyandotte having trouble walking, leg injury?

    So I think it might have been debris from cleaning out our gutters. We recently moved into a new house and had to clean out the clogged gutters in a haste during a rainstorm a few days ago. The debris was scattered near her free range space... This morning she seems eager to eat more oatmeal...
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    Help! Wyandotte having trouble walking, leg injury?

    She has been vaccinated for Marek's disease - after doing some research, it seems that botulism may be the case. I did feed a tiny bit of our food scraps from the compost bin to the chickens a few days ago - this could have been the culprit? The other chickens seem to be doing fine...
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    Help! Wyandotte having trouble walking, leg injury?

    One of our two Wyandottes seemed to be acting strange yesterday. All of our seven chickens free range during the day and she seemed to be walking around with her neck tucked in to her body, as if she was cold. After watching her for a while, it seemed that she was also having trouble walking...
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    Chicken suddenly being picked on - sick? Please help!

    Ah, okay she is 7 months old and I have seen one, sometimes two of the other hens aggressively peck at her neck, pulling feathers as they do. They corner her and snap at her any time she comes near them. We have not wormed any of them yet - this is our first run at having chickens, so we are...
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    Chicken suddenly being picked on - sick? Please help!

    We have a mixed breed of seven different hens and up until last week, they all seemed to get along quite well. However, lately one of our lacey wyandottes seems to be having a tough time. The other chickens, particularly our one other wyandotte, have begun picking on her, pecking her so much...
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    Can anyone help us figure out what breed of rooster we have??

    Wonderful! He is extraordinarily attached to his remaining sister, a CX pullet. He too crows exceptionally loud! Did you ever have trouble with the roo attempting to mount the other hens & crushing them as he does so? We quickly removed him from our hen run after the first hen experienced...
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    Can anyone help us figure out what breed of rooster we have??

    That being said, would it be considered cruel to keep him alive? He is almost 5 months old and seems very content with life...at least as far as we can tell? I would rather butcher him than continue keeping him alive if his quality of life is poor. Thank you for the help and advice!
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    Can anyone help us figure out what breed of rooster we have??

    We got this (not so little) guy back in early April - here are some images of Brady as he has gotten older. We'd love to know what type of rooster he is! He's extraordinarily affectionate and hasn't displayed a mean streak at all...yet!
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