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    Hen is wheezing loudly

    Today she’s totally better. Weird. VetRx is good stuff.
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    Hen is wheezing loudly

    It won't let me upload a video. It actually sounds a bit better.
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    Hen is wheezing loudly

    Diet is layer pellets. 18%. Doesn't seem to have any other symptoms.
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    Hen is wheezing loudly

    I brought her inside and administered VetRX. Not sure what else to do. She’s 9 months old. Everyone else is fine.
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    Young cockerel

    He may be showing he's ready to be the man of the flock. No more hanging out with Mama.
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    One year old strange egg behavior

    A young hen is layer extremely large eggs which seem to have very watery whites. Any idea why this may be? She is also dropping them all over and not necessarily laying in the nest box.
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    Safe to keep baby chicks in flock?

    Of course they need their mama! She will protect and reach them. Ours stay in their own crate within the coop run which we close at night so the chicks don’t get lost or stuck somewhere. In the morning everyone is let out to free range. Mamas decide when the chicks are ready to go out and...
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    Safe to keep baby chicks in flock?

    That has never happened to us in 9 years of chicken keeping.
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    Do you free range your chickens?

    My 18 free range on half an acre. I have no problem with the neighbor‘s cats, but we have lost some to mink and hawks. We make sure they are in well before dusk, and have strung up lines to deter flying predators. The chickens love having the run of the place, but all the negative comments...
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    Broody Hen - New To This!

    Give her a couple of eggs.
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    The ladies are making me nuts!!!

    “Bait” eggs can work. I use wooden ones. They like to lay where there are other eggs.
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    Why Have a Rooster?

    I have one, but would prefer to be without. Much quieter and easier on the hens.
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    do chickens talk back ?

    Mine do.
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    I want to incubate eggs but fear roosters

    I don’t think so.
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    Winter water...

    You can buy heat tape which you can wind around the waterer.
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