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    Possible cracked or Inured Beak

    Realizing I never updated this and I always hate it when injured chicken stories trail off. We took her to a vet that sees chickens. They did not end up gluing it back together. She advised we make sure she didn't get any infections and let it heal on it's own. The biggest thing to watch for she...
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    We've had the same issues with nipple waters. We've had two, one like the one you show which is heated and one with nipples on the bottom. We started them on it young and they use it occasionally but seemingly never enough. We've tried removing other water sources but always get worried that...
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    Possible cracked or Inured Beak

    Grandpa's Feeder https://www.grandpasfeeders.com/. We are actually wondering about it. It has a grate to keep them from throwing food out which sinks with the food level. I've noticed it does not always fall down as readily as you would hope, which means that while there was plenty of food, the...
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    Possible cracked or Inured Beak

    Thanks you very much for your response, very kind that you've taken the time! We're suspicious that it was either pecking through the grates on the grandfather feeder when the food was lower or excitedly pecking at the mesh on the door when she wanted out of the enclosed run, hard to say. She...
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    Possible cracked or Inured Beak

    We have noticed something odd with the top of one of our chickens beaks. It looks whitish and indented. This is it's upper beak near the base of the beak. We've read some beak flaking can be normal. We're not sure if this is faking or some kind of injury and if it's an injury exactly how...
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