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    Dislocated Hip?

    My hen was fine at 7am but when I went back outside at 8am she was laying down and did not get up running g to me when I had kitchen scraps for the flock. I immediately removed her and put her in a XL dog crate with food and water that had electrolytes and homeopathic anica for pain and...
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    2 day old Silkie with lame foot (toes)

    Thank you, I will try that.
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    2 day old Silkie with lame foot (toes)

    I just finished hatching 13 silkie chicks. One of my chicks kept loosing balance and falling backwards. She then would have great trouble getting off her back. I just examined her more closely and found that she can stretch out her toes on one foot and grab my finger but the other foot is not...
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    Ended 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    1st day out to play with her 3 brothers. She is only 28 days old and bigger than life. She is still part of my backyard flock and has three new beasties, but her brothers had to go to a new home.
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    Ended 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    This big boy is only 28 days old. I hatched 4 eggs and he was one of 3 cockerels.
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    Ended 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    This healthy little roo had to be assisted out of his shell. You can't tell that by looking at him at 28 days old.
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    Ended 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest—Win a Brinsea Incubator!

    These three are the most adorable. Still in the bator less than 24 hours old. Better, Wilma, and Ms. Wiggles will soon be raising some baby chicks at 12 days old.
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    Ended 15th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set!

    My guess is 2500. Thank you
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    Hello from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania!

    I talk to my ladies also! I see nothing wrong with that.
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    New member, but lurked secretly in the past

    Hi everyone, I have been keeping chicken for about a year now. I have 15 lovely ladies laying now and 4 lovelies just about to get started (they have started bowing to me lol). Today I am hatching 3 little chicks, fingers crossed they are pullets. I live in the city limits, insert any town, in...
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