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    Sick hen

    Thanks ten chicks! I think you're on to something. I remember reading about this a couple yeas ago but had forgotten and I don't come on here much recently. Will give the treatments a try and let you know how it goes.
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    Sick hen

    I have a Rhode Island Red hen about 2.5 yrs old that has been sick for about 5 days. Her comb is limp, she is very weak, and most noticeably, she is holding her tail very low. She eats and drinks water. I have given her some english peas and whole kernel corn from a can thinking it may help in...
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    Can these eggs still hatch?

    That's great to hear. Sunday temps were 70-75*.
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    Can these eggs still hatch?

    My main concern was that since she was not able to get to the eggs for so long the chicks mayhave died in the egg. I can't rememberwhat time I opened the coop but she could have been off the nest up to seven hours.
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    Can these eggs still hatch?

    I have five hens and one busy rooster at this time. My White Wyandotte has been sitting on some eggs for 2-21/2 weeks. When I first missed her being in the back yard a couple weeks ago, she was sitting on about a half-dozen but since then she has scooped up eggs from other hens and she now has...
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    Egg Question

    I have five hens and one busy rooster. My White Wyandotte has been sitting on some eggs for two-and-a-half weeks. When I first missed her in the back yard and found her in the coop, she was sitting on about 6 eggs. Since then other hens have layed near her and she scooped the eggs up and is now...
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    Hawk attack

    Sorry to hear that. We lost a BR two weeks ago to a hawk.
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    What killed my chicken?

    I would say a hawk. Last Sunday afternoon a hawk killed our best BR in our fenced back yard. I didn't see any puncture wounds but I'm pretty sure her neck was broken.
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    "They don't lay in the winter."

    When I said they didn't have a coop, included was no to very little cover and no artificial lighting.
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    How does the hawk actually kill a chicken?

    I wish I had looked closer but I was pretty upset.
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    How does the hawk actually kill a chicken?

    Last Sunday afternoon a hawk killed one of our Barred Rocks. The chickens were free ranging in our back yard and we were preoccupied with our neighbors. When it was all over there was a patch of feathers in the corner of the back yard, then a patch about 20 feet away and then another 20 feet...
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    "They don't lay in the winter."

    BTW, I didn't say that, I have told that twice since last week by two different people I bought hens from. Both kept their chickens in pens with no coop. It was sad.
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    A hard lesson

    Thanks for the kind words all. RIP Salt
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    A hard lesson

    We were taught a hard lesson in chicken keeping yesterday when our rooster attempted to notify us of a predator and we ignored the warning. Our neighbors had come over and we were talking and my wife and son said they saw our rooster run across the back yard (the chickens were out of the covered...
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    It was a good weekend

    So far, after 47 eggs, only one has been dropped on the counter and it only cracked the shell.
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