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    Chicken loosing balance only when bending to eat scratch or treats. Mareks?

    My girls are 3 and a half years old. They have been together since birth and I have not introduced any other girls into my flock. There is no yards close by me that hve chickens Sadly I lost my sunshine today. She deteriorated rapidly. Yesterday evening she was alive, eating and walking around...
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    Chicken loosing balance only when bending to eat scratch or treats. Mareks?

    My grandson didn't chase them. My grandchildren are incredible with my girls. They clean the coop, collect their eggs, feed and water them. . He was in the pool when the wacky noodle fell out. He retrieved it and ran back on the deck. The girls got startled.
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    Chicken loosing balance only when bending to eat scratch or treats. Mareks?

    I am quite fearful that 2 of my girls have been hit with Mareks disease but I can't be sure. I have four girls total. On May 22, I noticed my Lead hen (Red)under the brush looking dazed and confused. It was a hot day and she just had an encounter with my grandson who was running with a wacky...
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    Wrinkled egg

    It's only once a month I get a really bad wrinkled one. But every week there is at least one egg from her that is slightly creased or wrinkled.
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    Question about Molting

    I'm eighteen to nineteen months into my chicken raising. I know that's about the time they start to molt. I check on my girls at least twice a day if not more so. This morning when I let them out I only seen the typical feather here and there. I came home from work today to let them out and at...
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    Wrinkled egg

    I posted this picture about 10 months ago. Myred is still one of my best players but she still lays at least one wrinkled egg a week. She doesn't act like a nervous Nelly, she's actually the boss of The Brood. She's fed layer crumble along with a handful of scratch twice a day and fresh fruits...
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    Question about a breed of newly hatched chicks "knoll meat bird"

    This week my preschool has participated in a Chicken Hatching program. Eggs were brought in an incubator, we watched them hatch and transferred them into a brooder. Some of us raise chickens and have gotten attached to them. We contacted the farm from where they cam from and they said we are...
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    Whats the best chickens for eggs?

    My Jersey Gold is by far my best layer. She started laying at 7 months and she gives us 6 every week. They are big beautiful brown eggs. My second best layer is my Red Rock. She started laying at 9 months and gives me big beautiful brown speckled eggs. Both chickens are sex-linked.
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    Chicken Breed Focus - d'Uccle bantams

    Oh How I love Belgian D'Uccle. I am looking for a pair of pullets if anyone near me has any for sale. I lost my dear "Millie" in February and she was my pride and joy. The farm where I bought her no longer breeds bantams. I am having a hard time finding sexed little ones as we like to hand raise...
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    Aggressive Wyandotte toward mt D'Uccle

    My Wyandotte is a gold laced also. she is very standoffish and antisocial with us and even the other birds. I have no problem with the other breeds and my Bantam. If anything my bantam has really bonded with 2 of the top dogs in the coop. Its funny to see their interaction almost like frick and...
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    Aggressive Wyandotte toward mt D'Uccle

    When we purchased the birds we were very green. We spoke in length to the farm where we got them and told them the size of the coop and run. They said we were fine. They even encouraged us to get the bantam because her size. The coop with attached run they tried to sell us was much smaller...
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    Aggressive Wyandotte toward mt D'Uccle

    Thought I read somewhere in this forum that taking the problem bird out of the cage for a few days and then re introducing them to shuffle the pecking order. I'd rather do that first before getting rid of her as she is a beauty and a good layer. But I don't want to sacrifice the health and...
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    Aggressive Wyandotte toward mt D'Uccle

    The picture in my avatar is just a tractor run we used until we could increase the size of the attached run. My coop is 4x4 and the run is 14x4 including the area under the coop. Another whole coop redesign and run is in the works but it will have to wait till spring. We allow our chickens to...
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    Aggressive Wyandotte toward mt D'Uccle

    We are seriously thinking about giving her away. None of my other chickens are aggressive like that. She is the 2nd smallest. Out of my 5 she is the least social. I will never own another one. Out of all my birds, I specifically picked her and paid the most for her. Our D'Uccle was a last minute...
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    Wrinkled egg

    My Jersey gold is my best layer. We get an egg just about every day or at least 6 a week. Her eggs are the largest beautiful and brown. The other day when we collected the eggs she had one that was bigger than usual and very very wrinkled. I'll post a picture. This is not her first one she's...
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