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    please help: chicken won't walk or stand

    I have a two day old chick that just wont stand. everytime i try and help him stand,his legs just go out to th side. any suggestions?? thankyou very much!!
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    also, a second one hatched!! BUUTTT Hazy pecked at it and pushed it away and left it and went and continued to incubate the others. I got the little guy inside and he is doing just fine. there are three more chickens waitin. I went out to check just now and one egg had a most putrid vile smell...
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    someone told me to check the eggs near hatch day to make sure no problems were arising
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    Strangest and Silliest Chicken Names?

    My Rhode Island Red/Cross is named "Daisy Mae"
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    One of the chicks hatched last night!! I got it up in the brooder after I got home from school. No harm was done to it(: There are still four other eggs waiting. One of them, I could hear it, is chirping. Does anyone know how long it will take after I heard this chirp? also, i candled it,and...
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    Im a freshman in high school too!! well today, i came home to quite a mess. I walked in the gate, one egg shell was being eaten by the other chickens. I thought okay, Hazy must have pushed the egg shell away. But there was no chick around, it may not have been fertile, then again it may have...
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    I will post pictures as soon as I can!! And I believe I'lll let some stay with her, Ive always adored a mother and her chicks. I'll leave her in the original coop with her in her box, and when the chicks hatch I'll move her into the littler coop away from the other chickens. There is still one...
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    see, I was thinking of that, but the father is an Old English Game, and Hazy is just a beautiful hen. I would LOVE to show them. And to show them, they have to be used to being handled. You have to start when their chicks for them to get used to being handled though. Also, Id like for them to be...
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    Come to think of it, I believe shes "second in comand" .Before she went broody, she would always give the other hens a peck on the neck, I believe to show shes in charge. I mean she would just be walkin around, and a hen randomly walk by her,and shed give it a peck. I believe I'll move the box...
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    Thankyou so much! Time to set up the brooder
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    New Chicks & Broody Hen, Help Due tomorrow!! !!

    My broody hen has been sittin on her eggs for almost 21 days. The chicks are due between October 10-October 11. I also have several questions, thankyall! #1: My broody bantam, Hazy, is the smallest chicken in the flock. All five of the flock sleep in one coop, including Hazy. She sits on her...
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