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    Sick hen, appears to have growth in mouth

    Thanks dawg53! I found photos of canker on a poultry health site and that is exactly what it is. Now to find the medication. Thanks again for your help!!
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    Sick hen, appears to have growth in mouth

    I have a Gold Laced Wyandotte who is lethargic and acting strange. She keeps stretching her neck, beak open, making a strange cluck. I looked inside her beak and we thought she had some scratch corn stuck but when my husband tried to get it out it was attached. You can see it in the corner of...
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    May have found the answer to the sudden death of my hen

    I posted a question several days ago regarding the sudden death of my large Black Austrolorp. She had no sign of illness at all, very active and even laid her egg on schedule the day she died. In talking to some people who have been around the poultry business for years, they said in those very...
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    So sad...I just lost one of my two chickens

    I know, I never thought I would actually get attached to my hens, but I did. I just want to know if I did something wrong or if she just died. I don't want to repeat a mistake, at least maybe I can learn from this. But...sometimes there may not be an answer. She was lying all stretched out on...
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    Storms In Arkansas Killing Chicks

    I'm in NW Arkansas and I just lost my big, previously healthy Black Australorp. I too was thinking maybe I shouldn't have let her out with all this rain but they have been begging to get out.
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    So sad...I just lost one of my two chickens

    I just went outside to check on my two girls and my big, beautiful black Australorp Lucy was laying on her back, dead. I had not been home all day but previous to today she had been active, laying her beautiful eggs like usual, eating and doing everything normally. She even layed today. We have...
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    How many chickens do we all have? 60,083 and counting.

    31,753 +5 = 31,758
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    Green flies

    I am a newbie to raising backyard chickens. I have 2 Black Australorps that are laying and a French Black Copper Marans and Easter Egger that should be laying in a couple of months. I have been shocked by the fly problem I am having. (green flies) My coop has pine shavings and the yard is mostly...
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