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  1. Chuck Graham

    Looking for some advice! :)

    RELAX. Take it easy. At your age things can either work out or not and in the grand scheme of things down the road not mean a thing. Enjoy life now and don't sweat the small stuff.
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    Pullets chest puffed out full of fluid.

    I have six healthy eight week old pullets. The most friendly personable girls chest is pegged out and fluid filled. Feels like fluid is just under the skin. Not sure if it's her crop. Other than being slowed down by the weight very healthy. Took her to the vet yesterday. He said although he's...
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    EIGHT YEARS NO PROBLAM, NOW......

    I forgot to add that except for the first to go, "Trooper Jeff", who died last winter, they all were laying eggs right up to the end. Trooper Jeff got her name because I thought she was a rooster at first. Named them all after female cops I work worth. Trooper Jeff was the first to lay an egg.
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    EIGHT YEARS NO PROBLAM, NOW......

    I have a tendency to retain and enjoy old things. My old tabby B Cat almost made it to 20 years before he had to be euthanized. I've been driving the same Ford pickup for 27. My Chickens have been well cared for and I was rather stunned by the four dying within several months. I saw no signs...
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    EIGHT YEARS NO PROBLAM, NOW......

    Thank fort the feedback. Am too far from any lab to have necropsy. Birds buried already. After six week will transfer chicks into 4'L x 3' D x 2' H cat cage and into coop to introduce birds I suppose in a few weeks I will release chicks into coop at night when birds are relaxed. I HAVE been...
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    EIGHT YEARS NO PROBLAM, NOW......

    Have had six Chickens for eight years. Four otherwise healthy birds have dropped dead over last four months. Is eight years normal life expectancy? No disease, parasites, poisons or any other cause found. Remaining two look and act fine. Picked up six three day old chicks last week are in...
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