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    Sick chicken

    Our run is quite large. It is dry with sand on the bottom, and covered on top tp prevent high amounts of water from rain, and completely safe from predators. It has plenty of shade from the hot sun. I feed them pellets. I did soak a couple of the chickens today, did not see signs of lice. They...
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    Sick chicken

    Thank you for your response! I feed them layers chicken feed from feed store, they do not free range, no cell tower,wind turbines or solar farms. I did add apple cider to their water which is in a food grade plastic can. I added a smaller waterer and added probiotics to it today. I have noticed...
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    Chickens dying months apart

    Hi. Over the past 6 months, I have had 5 chickens die. They have not died at the same time. Everyone looks good, plenty of food, water, clean coop. Then one will be lethargic, a little stumbly the comb looks discolored, and then after a couple days, it dies. When one was sick, I tried to soak it...
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    Sick chicken

    Also, these chickens are anywhere from 1.5-3 years old
  5. davimi

    Sick chicken

    Hi. Over the past 6 months, I have had 5 chickens die. They have not died at the same time. Everyone looks good, plenty of food, water, clean coop. Then one will be lethargic, a little stumbly the comb looks discolored, and then after a couple days, it dies. When one was sick, I tried to...
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    string that cut into hens foot

    Hi, I just found one of our hens with a string wrapped around her toes on one foot. It must have been there a while because it was imbedded in pretty good. I was able to remove the string but the it cut into one of the toes pretty bad. I cleaned it and put antibiotic ointment on it, wrapped it...
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    Best way to keep water from freezing?

    I have a insulated 5 gallon rubbermaid container with an attachment with the nipples...the water in the attachment is freezing...would the bird bath de-icer keep the water in the attachment from freezing too?Thanks,
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    Water freezing

    Hi, I have a 10 gallon insulated rubbermade container with an attachment on the outside that has the nipples on it, so my concern is that the outside attachment will still freeze even when using this heater. What do you think? Thanks,
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    peeing in house after getting spade

    I thought about that too..I will have to take a sample in on Monday...I almost hope it is a Uti...or else I will have to keep her outside...thanks for your thoughts.
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    peeing in house after getting spade

    I have a pot belly pig about 8 weeks old. She was spade last week and ever since has been urinating in house. She will do it 5 min after I take her to go outside. She was doing great before the surgery. Any ideas?
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    can tan buffs produce white buffs

    We hatched 6 buffs. They are about 6 weeks old...2 of them are white...the rest look like the normal tan...can tan buffs produce white buffs?
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    ADVICE for late egg hatching

    6 eggs hatched by sunday...1 egg has not hatched...it is alive because i saw it breathing...but no pips..no peeps...is it stuck....how long do i wait....anyone ever have this happen..i hate for it to suffer
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    1egg late..what do i do

    We hatched 6 eggs...the last one hatched Sunday....the 7th eggs should have hatched on Sunday...it doesn't peep..but when I candle it I see it breathing...I did poke a small hole in top of egg yesterday. So I figure the chick is very weak..probably something wrong...do I help it hatch ...thanks
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    chickens stopped laying and now eggs are small

    Hi...i have 6 buffs (3- 1 year old, 3- 2 years old)..they almost stopped laying 3 months ago..i would get maybe 1 egg a day...now i get 1 large egg and 3 very small eggs..is this normal?
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    HELP!!!is egg too thick for chick to get out?

    1 of the eggs that i brought in after the hen stopeed sitting on, is chirping and rocking...but no first holes in shell..the shell does look like a thick one....can it be too thick for the chick to get out?....i just dont want it to die because it was stuck
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