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    Comment by 'hollys chooks' in article 'Building A Treadle Chicken Feeder'

    I'm back looking at these plans again. My feeder, that I built 3 years ago, is working fine. A friend of mine got engaged, moved to a property with her fiance, got some chickens, and has informed me that my engagement present to her will be a treadle feeder like the one I built. :) So now to...
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    guess I''ll just chop 'em up!

    I had to read this just to check the title didn't mean your hens. Yes, my girls like nuts. If I'm being lazy I don't chop 'em up, I squash 'em with a brick. (the nuts, not the hens)
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    Hen with Swollen Belly

    I am thinking second photo looks healthier. The first one focus isn't so good, but in second can see that skin isn't over stretched, the colour looks less angry. Is she less swollen? Looks less so to me but can't tell if that is just the way she is standing.
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    Hen with Swollen Belly

    Well, if she is being active and eating then I would just see how things go. I'd just keep her warm and confined for a few days and keep a check that she's not getting worse.
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    Hen with Swollen Belly

    If she has peritonitis - a serious infection that would need treating by a vet - then she will look unwell, she won't move much and won't eat much, she'll be in pain. (which are similar symptoms to egg bound) The normal looking poop is a good sign, my hen with peritonitis did very watery poops...
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    Hen with Swollen Belly

    She looks a bit red, which I have only noticed on my hen with peritonitis. But if she has been sitting on her belly it could get a bit red too.
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    Genetics help.........

    This is a well written article on sex link genetics https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information
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    Hen with Swollen Belly

    Let her get nice and relaxed. I've got one hen who gets egg bound now and then and about 20 minutes in the bath then gently dry her and keep her in a warm, quiet room in a closed cardboard box with nesting material. It has always helped her. However I have had another hen die from being egg...
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    Fat belly

    Hi, I have no experience with ducks or what can go wrong with them, but I'm wondering if it's a hernia. I would rule out peritonitis or any type of infection if she is behaving and eating normally and has had it for a while.
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    Found An Alien in the coop this morning ***UPDATE PICS*****

    It looks like faulty egg laying product to me. Mine have done this sort of thing occasionally, an egg breaks in the uterus while forming and the membrane and shell don't clear and interfere with the following egg forming ending up in a jumbled mass of membrane. Good that it has been expelled...
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    How brave are your chickens?

    Their bravery is somewhat inconsistent. I have seen them following a cat walking across the backyard, but when a tiny kitten, no more than 4 weeks old, crawled under the back fence it was a sky is falling situation with clucking and flapping and running away.
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    How can i get my new hen (Wyandotte) to be accustomed of me and let me hold her ?

    Yes, the way to a chicken's heart is definitely food. For some reason regular feed pellets become so much better when mixed with water so they are just mush. I give mine this as a treat, whenever any of them have a health problem and I want them to eat properly, when I want to give them...
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    My chickens won't go into their coop at night.

    How lovely to have pets like your girls. Are they laying? Most of my pullets have only taken up roosting about the same week they started laying. Before that they would either cuddle up on the ground or try to hide in a nestbox. Do you only have one roost in your coop? I had to put an other one...
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    Yet another "pullet or cockerel" thread...with a twist.

    I have a hen that mounts my pullets, it isn't a mating behaviour, it's a dominance behaviour. Perhaps your cockerel is exhibiting a submissive behaviour, you were being quite dominant at the time.
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    Where are my eggs?!

    It might be that their laying is impaired by the disease they had, I don't have much experience with those sorts of health problems. Hens generally slow in their laying after their second year (it's why commercial egg producers get rid of their layers at about 18 months) but if healthy you...
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