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    Are blue & green eggs Kosher?

    kosher eggs only have to come from a kosher species; the chicken does NOT have to be slaughtered prior to eating the eggs. The only case in which this would apply is if you are eating the unlaid eggs after a chicken is slaughtered, the chicken would have to have been slaughtered properly and be...
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    How to put day old chicks under a broody hen.....

    I have a broody who has been broody for a week. She is very dedicated. I hand feed her every day in the egg box and she doesn’t peck me and lets me check under her for eggs. This is her second brood but she hasn’t raised babies because she got sick last time and I took them away on hatch day...
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    Are blue & green eggs Kosher?

    It has been scientifically proven that the blue egg gene is the result of a retrovirus mutation. Birds however can have Araucana/Mapuche ancestors and not lay blue eggs. If birds descended from these birds are deemed not kosher, it would very difficult to determine which chickens have never...
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    Ameraucana Sounds Different

    Mine is 3 and still honks. Got her from an Ameraucana breeder.
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    Goodbye, dream of Silkies... not kosher, sorry. :-(

    I don't see why this is an issue. If you look at silkie toes, the second back toe is clearly a case of polydactyly. My cousin was born with 6 fingers, that doesn't make him a different species. Yes, there are two toes on the back, however, if you look at the feet of parrots, the two toes on the...
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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    Thanks everyone. We brought her into the vet on Monday. They thought it was probably just old age, but if it was something else, the rest of the flock would have it already and there's not really anything we can do. They recommended against the necropsy and against putting her down and suggested...
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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    3225 and 3226 are the good eye. 3224 and 3228 are the "bad" eye. Sorry, my camera is not so good. That's the best I could do. It's hard to see, but there is actually black on the iris, not the pupil, however, the pupil itself excluding the black part of the iris is smaller than on the other...
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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    Thanks. It's a multiple hour drive to the closest lab and I just don't have time. Vet doesn't open til tomorrow morning.
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    Chicken holding head backwards to left, walking in circles, pecking at food to left.

    Followup/update?
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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    Thanks. I was thinking it was old age at first, then I wasn't sure. The droppings actually went from green to "normal" and the other hens' diarrhea went away as well and their poops are back to normal. This morning she'd fallen out of her box. She was drooling. I tried to feed her/give her...
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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    Thanks. I checked and her crop still seemed hardish. I gave her some liquid b complex and force fed her water and a little bit of olive oil and tried to work out whatever was in her crop. I hope that helps. I don't have any vitamin e yet. Her toes weren't curing and her legs weren't splaying, so...
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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    Rosalie is a 5 1/2 year old Redstar hen. She is currently lighter than usual. Rosalie has recently started having trouble moving since maybe Saturday? First she moved to the lowest roosting bar, then to the egg box, then refused to come out of the roosting area/eggbox area. I thought oh, maybe...
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    Rescue chicken

    A neighbor asked if we could take their lone chicken "Maple" after a racoon attack. We've got her in a quarantine pen on the other side of the house. They said she survived a previous racoon attack and they thought they'd fixed the issue but they hadn't and they lost the other one. She hasn't...
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    Lethargic chicken, discolored comb, vertebral bones in crop, possible impaction? laying issues.

    No, her crop was full when she woke up this morning, as I wrote above. I gave her some water and olive oil and massaged it and could clearly feel a number of vertebral bones of varying sizes inside once I got everything else broken up and squishy. I could palpate them and move them around and...
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