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    Hen with no energy, please help

    Hello, we have a polish hen who is not doing very well. She has mites in her afro that I can't seem to get rid of but there isn't that many of them right now. She keeps one of her eyes closed and she seems like she has no energy. It is cold and snowy so we brought her inside and she was drinking...
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    Bumble foot

    Hello! I currently have 6 hens with bumble foot. They got into some wood chips and they were digging in them, i believe that is what causes it. What should I do? I watched a video on youtube of a man who pulled the things out with a tweezers but I had no luck. The hens are all still eating and...
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    Spraddle leg on 7 week old

    He can't stand, he was doing fine but then a couple days ago he got really bad. Not positive if it is splayed leg or not
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    Spraddle leg on 7 week old

    Hello! Our chicks are 7weeks old. Our last chick was hatched a couple days later than everyone else. A couple weeks ago one of his legs was being weird so when we left to go camping, we left him with our friends. He got worse and now it looks like spraddle leg for sure, is there anything i can...
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    sick chick

    Hi! Our chicks are 5 weeks old and one of them has become sick. We separated it from the flock. It has very week legs and he has never seemed super healthy but now it has gotten bad. His walking is very strange and he sometimes sneezes. He is willing to eat and drink just super week and his legs...
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    sick chick

    Hi! We have 5 baby chicks that are 4 weeks old. They have been very healthy but today we noticed one of them is acting a little weird. He keeps sneezing and wants to huddle under his mother. He also keeps his mouth open most of the time. It was very warm today here, almost 95 degrees does that...
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    Does mom stay with babies??

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    PLEASE HELP 🚨 VERY HURT

    PLEASE HELP ME! My roosters got in a fight and one is very hurt!!! He lost a ton of blood and has a huge hole in his neck. Please help me
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    Does mom stay with babies??

    Thanks! We have 5 little one now!
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    Does mom stay with babies??

    I turned off the lamp!
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    Does mom stay with babies??

    Hello, our hen is sitting on eggs and one is fully hatched and the rest are cracked a little bit. I moved her, her baby, and her eggs to the garage. Should I keep her with the babies? Right now we have a heat lamp on, should that be off? She looks hot. Thanks!
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    🚨hatching egg

    Hello! We have had chickens for just under a year and one of our hens went broody. We let her keep the eggs just to see what would happen. About half way through the incubation, I candled the eggs and got rid of about half of them as they weren't developed. ( I cracked them and was correct)...
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    🚨please help- hen losing weight

    This is very late but we dewormed them and she has started to gain her weight back! She laid her first egg since she's been sick and she is all good!
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    🚨please help- hen losing weight

    Sorry for the late reply, she is around 8 months old
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    🚨please help- hen losing weight

    Hi so I have noticed a hen of ours losing a lot of weight. I'm not sure why this is as I am nee to having chickens. She will be a year old in July and her breed is an olive egger. I'm assuming she has stopped laying eggs because of this as we are getting less now. Today, I took her with me and...
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