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    What’s happening to their feathers?!

    How do I get this to stop? As of now there is no wound but I know it can get worse. Their run is covered and about 22’ x 10’ so it is plenty big enough for 7 hens to get along.
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    What’s happening to their feathers?!

    Hello, I am new to chicken raising and my hens are now about 9 months old. I came out today and noticed that 4 of my 7 girls are now missing the fluffy feathers below their vent areas. Not around the vent itself. But below it. They are laying fine, eating and appear happy. It has been around 20...
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    Help identifying breed ;)

    Thank you all so much! I was told I purchased a total of 3 Easter eggers but I think this is the only real one. All the others turned out to be Rhode Island Red and a New Hampshire Red. Now I truely have a mixed bunch 🥰
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    Help identifying breed ;)

    Hello, I have 1 19 week old pullet that I can’t determine the breed of. When she was young I thought she was perhaps a gold laced Wyandotte but now I don’t think so. She is very kind but not a huge cuddled. Haha. Any thoughts?
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    19 week old pullet straining

    So she seems to be eating heartily again and is running around free ranging like she’s fine now. She’s still doing the abdominal muscle contracting and a little vent pulsing still but I have to really look to notice. MUCH BETTER than last night and this morning. Since she was in the run with the...
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    19 week old pullet straining

    Not that I know of. I crushed it up and dissolved it in 3 cc of water.
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    19 week old pullet straining

    She acts like she’s pushing and her vent is definitely pulsing. You can even see it while she is walking. None of my other girls are doing this. Maybe I am paranoid. She is back with her flock for now and is walking around and nibbling food. I am going to run to the store to get calcium in a bit...
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    19 week old pullet straining

    I put a separate feeder out with oyster shell yesterday for all my hens once I thought this girl might be egg bound. I didn’t think they needed it until they started laying so that’s why I waited. They are only 19 weeks. Since she did poop a little last night she can’t be egg bound, right? I am...
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    19 week old pullet straining

    Ok, so this morning I woke to find 2 firm poops in her “sick bay”. She is still straining. So I gave her a 20 soak in warm salt water, towel dried her off and put her back in her crate with pellets, oyster shell and fresh water. She is picking at her food although not a quickly as normal. I am...
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    19 week old pullet straining

    Well she looks like it. Although none that I bought were listed as leghorns. Haha. Pretty sure Atwood’s (where I got her) had all the bins mixed up. I don’t truly know what any of my breeds are. I am keeping her inside and isolated tonight. Still attempting to push something out. No poop for a...
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    Hello chicken friends

    Hello,I am a first time chicken owner and I must say I am in love! They make me so happy! I purchased 6 pullets on Mother’s Day 2021 and 2 days later went back for 5 more. I was instantly hooked ;) I have since learned that 2 of them are indeed roosters. 3 white girls that look like leghorns, 1...
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    19 week old pullet straining

    Ok, out of abundance of caution I just let her bottom soak for 10 min in warm epsom salt water, and gave her about 500 mg of tums from a syringe. I hope I didn’t make it worse. I did insert my lubed finger about an inch inside and felt nothing. I have her in her own “sick bay” for the night...
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    19 week old pullet straining

    I have tums. I made a list last week of first aid supplies but haven’t got any of it yet. :( Could she be “practicing” egg laying? She seems happy except for the straining.
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    19 week old pullet straining

    Hello, I have 9 pullets and 2 cockerels. All are 19 weeks old today. No eggs from anyone yet. However, I noticed today that one of my leghorns acts as if she is trying to lay an egg. But nothing is coming out. Her bottom is clean and her abdomen feels the same as my other chickens. She is eating...
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