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    Opinions on Rooster Breeds Needed Please!

    We bought ten straight run birds from a local farm supply store, knowing that some would most likely be roosters. Turns out, 7 of them are roosters! Obviously, keeping seven roosters isn't an option- our hens would suffer the consequences for sure, lol! We will only be keeping one, possibly two...
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    Feeling overwhelmed!

    Thank you, azygous. I'm just sitting here with tears in my eyes, as I read your response. I think I just needed someone to understand, and I knew I'd find that here. I'm just...I mean, how do you just decide to stop feeding your chickens? They had MONTHS to winterize their coop- but as usual...
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    Feeling overwhelmed!

    Please bear with me, this may be a long post! We have a small flock of 7 chickens, of varying breeds. We treat like pets- I call them "my girls!" They come when I whistle, they hang out at the back door, begging for attention and treats, and all was well in our world until... A few days ago, one...
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    Pale Comb That Looks Dry and Powdery!

    My FiFi passed away this evening. She just continued to decline, and today, she never really came out of the coop. When my husband went to shut the coop doors, he found her. We suspect that she was just old, and it didn't seem as though she struggled at all. Thank you all for trying to help...
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    Pale Comb That Looks Dry and Powdery!

    Do I have to take her to a vet for worming? Or can I get that at Tractor Supply? (Where I get most everything!)
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    Pale Comb That Looks Dry and Powdery!

    My FiFi is on the left, and Maggie on the right. You can see the difference in the color of their combs. I tried to get a closer shot, but my camera froze up, and she went into a corner, hiding.
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    Pale Comb That Looks Dry and Powdery!

    I know absolutely nothing about her background, as far as age, shots, wormings, etc. The place that we got her from...imagine around 250-300 chickens, all free ranging, all intermingling/interbreeding, roosters going at hens without mercy...honestly, it was kind of like a puppy mill for...
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    Pale Comb That Looks Dry and Powdery!

    She does eat- I do not, however, see her drink much, even though water is easily accessible. I know my husband has been treating the water with pro-biotic powder. It's easy for me to see them eat, from my office window, but the water hangs in the back- I don't see that all day long like the...
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    Pale Comb That Looks Dry and Powdery!

    My son recently decided that he wanted add to our flock for part of his birthday gift! (Love that boy, lol!) We bought 3 hens from a local guy- 1 RIR, and 2 RIR/Leghorn crosses. The RIR (Dusty) and one of the crosses (Maggie) started laying for us right away, nearly every day. They're funny...
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    My hens refuse to lay!

    Thank you, everyone! He was definitely not eating raw eggs, lol! When our little chick died, we were concerned that whatever the cause was, it might affect our whole flock, so while I went to Tractor Supply to look for medicines/vitamins for our remaining birds, my husband shoveled out the coop...
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    My hens refuse to lay!

    We have looked, and found nothing.. We're just really new to this, and we're confused. We're trying really hard to do everything right- in fact, I just had my husband at the emergency room last night because he contracted salmonella from keeping the coop clean. (UGH.) I just read on a different...
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    My hens refuse to lay!

    We have sort of a "hen rescue" going on at our house! We have 2 leghorns that a guy gave us (city ordinance- he had to re-home them!) We also have 2 red comets that we rescued from a local chicken farm- they had been badly abused by the the other chickens- one appears to be blind, and the other...
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    My chickens are sick

    I am new to both this site, and to chicken ownership, but I have found this site so incredibly helpful. Last night, we lost a 7 week old chick we had raised like our baby. She appeared to have a seizure- it flopped onto its back, and began shaking violently, then went still. My husband witnessed...
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