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    Little Girl getting Pecked and being pushed away

    Cockadoodledon't : I know that Chickens have a distinct pecking order, however, lately have been dealing with one of my little girls being really bullied by the other birds. I have had these birds 2 years and they have been together since they were chicks. I had 2 birds that the Rooster had...
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    **HELP**Hen Has Problem With Feet Keeps Pecking At them????

    I'll try to take a picture later of them. I'm really not thinking they are the mites. I have one that had them and it looks nothing like that. Her scales on her legs and feet are a deep yellow and still nice and smooth. She only has sores around the toe areas where the skin/scales meet the...
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    **HELP**Hen Has Problem With Feet Keeps Pecking At them????

    For the last couple of weeks I have a hen that keeps pecking at both of her feet until they are all bloody. She just sits on her roost all day and won't come down to eat or drink hardly at all. She seems fine other than there is something bothering her feet. When she stands she keeps shifting...
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    Brain Or Nerve Damaged Hen???

    Here's the story. My Father raises laying hens and I help him out with them since I am now staying with him. Anyway last Spring he got 31 new born hens and after a couple weeks he put them in their new pen in the old house which we use as a shed now next door. That first night something came in...
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    can the chickens eat bread?

    Mine go bonkers for bread!!! Absolutely crazy!!! As soon as they see me coming they can spot whether I have a piece in my hand or not. Sometimes if I have a loaf that hasn't been pre-sliced I'll take a big chunk of it and hang it down from the ceiling of their coop with twine and leave it just...
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    Question About Chick I Helped Out Of Shell

    Interesting, I've never heard of that before. How big did the female grow when it had finished maturing and why did you have to end up putting the males down? Thanks.
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    Question About Chick I Helped Out Of Shell

    Yeah it is strange. All seven chicks that were hatched are all from the same one rooster and the two brown hens that are in with him.
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    Question About Chick I Helped Out Of Shell

    Ok, so we hatched a few brown laying hens from my Dad's styrofoam incubator last month and we got seven chicks now out of it. I ended up helping two out of the shells. The first one is now about a month old and is fine, no problems, yadda, yadda, yadda. The second one hatched three weeks ago...
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    Frostbitten comb HELP!!!!!!!!!!

    So someone asked about neosporin and or polysporin on the waddles and combs...Is this a good idea or should we just stick with Vaseline, a poly/neo/Vaseline mixture, or nothing at all? Thanks
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    Introduce Myself & Question About Wild Chickens

    Quote: Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking too but I thought I'd ask anyway to see if anyone down in the southern states have ever tried this. *And just to clarify I'm living in Nova Scotia. Thanks for replying.
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    Introduce Myself & Question About Wild Chickens

    Hi guys this is my first post here at "backyardchickens.com" and I hope to post a lot more. My Father has been raising chickens here in Nova Scotia for about 16 or 17 years now. He's two groups totally about 60 - 75 laying hens then another group of 5 hens and one rooster (Terry) which he lets...
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