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    Can chickens have strokes?

    What is ND?
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    Can chickens have strokes?

    My Old English Bantam (my avatar picture) is acting very strangely. She is unsteady on her feet, and keeps throwing her head backwards and onto her wing, so she's kind of staring straight up. She is still eating and drinking on her own, although she's very wobbly. She is pretty old. Doesn't...
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    rusty watering fount

    Hi! My double walled metal watering container is getting rusty along the trough area where the hens drink. Is this a danger to my girls? This type of waterer is expensive to replace, but it works much better than plastic here in the Texas heat. Thanks for any insights.
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    What information do you wish you had known starting out?

    I would like to have known about quarantining new chickens. I lost my first chickens by adding two new ones. One of them had some illness that eventually took out all but 1 chicken. I guess she was immune.
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    My hen is swollen on one side of her chest.

    Thanks, Garden State, for calming me down and making me look at it differently. I massaged her crop (not so easy, since I don't pick em up all the time), and she was better the next day. That was a week or so ago, and now all my hens are laying.
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    They're back in the saddle (I mean nest)!!

    For the first time since the fall all four of my sweet hens laid an egg for me! One small cream, one large cream, one medium brown, and one medium green!!! They got extra free range time today!
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    My hen is swollen on one side of her chest.

    Hello all! My New Hampshire Red has a swollen area on her chest. I would think it was just a full crop but it's only on one side. I noticed it yesterday evening. If it had just been a full crop wouldn't it have decreased in size by this morning? Any ideas what this could be? Should I be...
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    Uncle Sam Expects You To Keep Hens and Raise Chickens !!

    Yay!! That means I can get 4 more chickens!
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    Emmaks Member Page

    Welcome to our Henhouse We built our henhouse in March, 2010. We have a seating area to sit outside in the morning, afternoon or evening and enjoy a beverage while watching the chickens. We also sit here while they...
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    Best way to collect manure for composting?

    I have newspapers right under where they sleep. Once a week I pull the paper out and put it in the compost bin. I put in more newspaper. I'm recycling both chicken poop and newspaper, and it's easy!
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    What is the main difference between a NHR and RIR?

    I have a Rhode Island Red and a New Hampshire Red. Purchased at the same time. Both beautiful girls. The RIR is definitely darker in color. The NHR has colors more like a comet, but she has THE MOST BEAUTIFUL comb I've ever seen. Both are great, consistent layers. Neither seem very meaty.
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    RIP Daisy :(

    So sorry for your loss. I had a beautiful little white bantam silkie named Daisy (after my Grandma). One morning I came out to the coop and she was dead. So sad. . .
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    Help!! I'm overloaded with eggs!!

    I'm enjoying this thread very much. I have 3 layers who are very consistently laying an egg each every day. I've been sharing mine with neighbors for free to build good will. My girls are very noisy - when they're unhappy:barnie and when they're happy. The only time they're not talking is...
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    Tomato Worms

    Well, I found some tomato worms today, and my girls turned their noses up at them. Maybe I'll do as suggested and cut them in half.
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    Never saw this before . . . ?

    The droppings don't fall straight to the bottom of the coop. There's a spot right under their roost where I put papers, and pretty much all their droppings landright there during the night. Then I just take out the papers. The birds don't get in that area. Probably not a large enough spot...
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