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    Chick Suddenly Can’t Walk?

    he sure did! another chick came down with the same issue after he recovered so i begun by separating them from the other rowdy chicks and dropping several drops of rooster booster poultry cell into their beak every morning for a week straight. the recovery was slow but they both gained their...
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    could it be, she’s a he?

    thanks for the insight! that’s cool, what about her colors is specifically female?
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    could it be, she’s a he?

    these babies were hatched may 24th, making them ~33 days. out of the 7, 4 are confirmed males, while 2 are confirmed females. this one in particular is odd to me- she has had very quick feather development like another cockerel, is large and slender-bodied like the other cockerels, and is...
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    4 Week old BYM comb development… male or female?

    turns out he was a male! he’s been sparring with my other cockerels. late bloomer
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    4 Week old BYM comb development… male or female?

    I hatched a few BYM hatching eggs and ended up with three pea-combed chicks. While all 3 of my single-combed chicks ended up visibly male, only one pea-combed chick so far has shown any comb development. However, while the 3 cockerels constantly size off and challenge each other, I’ve never seen...
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    Chicken Throw Over Fence! What Breed?

    Mystery is our chicken we happened to come across after losing a much beloved delaware hen, Flurry… My father buried her, and a week later, proclaimed that she’d come back to life. We walked out in awe to another white chicken walking around the yard. I’d genuinely thought he was losing his...
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    Cheap SHEIN incubator chicks hatched!

    on may 3rd, i received eleven intact eggs in the mail from ohio. after letting them rest i put them in my cheap shein incubator as a little experiment- hatching chicks for the first time, in the cheapest, most accessible way possible. it was amazing to watch them pip for the first time! i...
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    dark faverolle pullet or a dude?

    this baby came from my first ever batch of hatched chicks, out of the smallest pink egg i was sent. i know she is half salmon faverolle, but the male sire could be anything from black/white cochin to black copper maran. she is very faverolle-heavy though, her momma did the heavy lifting...
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    Chick Suddenly Can’t Walk?

    These babies hatched on the 24th and have been healthy and happy, but I left them for a day (yesterday) in the care of my dad who has taken care of and raised chicks before and came back to my favorite chick Marshmallow suddenly lame. Her legs shake and feel weak when she’s sitting in my hand...
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    There wasn’t any sign of stuck eggs, so i felt her lower belly/abdomen and found the issue. Her abdomen is huge and feels like Compared it to three other hens and its very likely she has ascites, which i’m guessing could also be because of her breed (black sex link) i read that they have...
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    she’s spending the night inside. hoping someone can provide some insight whenever they can.
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    she still poops. i still don’t know what’s wrong with her.
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    she’s eating some lettuce though
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    i read that one of the symptoms of egg binding is a pulsing vent but i haven’t seen that on her. she’s now refusing water.
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    puffed up, SICK hen!

    was told today one of the girls didn’t want to come out of the coop. went outside and she’s puffed up. she still goes after food and water, but she isnt talking and moves very rigidly. her crop is small and it isn’t sour/impacted. i would say egg bound but that would be weird because she hasn’t...
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