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    Am I Crazy or over emotional about Chickens

    Two years ago, my journey with chickens began when my ex-partner, a school teacher, got two chicks after hatching. Due to my diagnosed mental health issues, including primary insomnia, double depression, ADHD, and DID, I thought a rooster might help me wake up and build a routine. We lived in a...
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    Molting from over 6 Months or just Hen Crazy

    Thanks so much for your response. I do give him butter,yoghurt from time to time. Scrambled eggz especially the yolk and now giving them Verm-X feed. I am also giving him ,johnson poultry tonic. I tried looking for mites,but could not find it. A month ago ,i gave him bath in epsom salt
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    Molting from over 6 Months or just Hen Crazy

    My rooster is a rare pure breed Groninger Meuween from Netherlands. His name is Tiger, literally a pet nearly two years.Follows me on the street ,we go out on a morning walk even went on a road trip from London to Scotland. Also travelled in a train. Now his molting situation is worrisome. He...
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    • #moulting feather condition feather damage feather disease immunity moulting hen? funny feathers rooster
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    Bumble foot, surgery or wait

    Shall i make an incision to remove the puss from inside to relieve the swelling
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    Bumble foot, surgery or wait

    Yes he is limping. The foot is extremely swollen.i put it inside warm turmeric water .
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    Bumble foot, surgery or wait

    Do you think its really bad? Its my Roo's , Tiger 's foot.
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    R.I.P you crazy colonel

    I can feel your heavy heart. Im a single man taking care of 5 roosters , 4 chicks and 2 hens. I have learned a lot from Chickens,such as patience, endurance, mediation, ..i have yet to learn to control ego and not sacrifice important things to satisfy the ego
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    What do you love about chickens?

    Yeh, the way rooster takes out a happy sound to call his hen, when he finds good food . The mama hen does the same for her chicks
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    I put eggs under my broody

    What happens if a hen is broody for long? I removed her own fertile eggs , however another hen goes and gives egg, in her cabinet ,and then the broody sit on them. Im a single person, cannot manage so many chickens on my own !!
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    I put eggs under my broody

    I don't know what to do. Out of 4 eggs in the incubator two hatched and i immediately put the remaining two under the broody hen. Unfortunately it didn't hatched. Now,shall i break her broodiness? Or put another hen eggs under her
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    I put eggs under my broody

    How many times in a year do hens become broody??
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    I put eggs under my broody

    Mine is not pooing nor drinking or eating. She ate a bit when i fed from my hands
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    I put eggs under my broody

    I have one day left for four of my eggs to hatch and one of my hen got broody four days ago. Shall i pop these eggs under her? Or only pop two ?
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    How long can I keep collecting eggs to put under a broody hen?

    She became broody just on three eggs. However she was behaving like one from few weeks , walking around puffed up. Shouting if someone entered the coop etc
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    How long can I keep collecting eggs to put under a broody hen?

    I have only one day left for eggs to hatch . Shall i put them under a hen who is broody from few days?
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