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    Sick or cold-intolerant

    I want to start off by saying I've done a lot of searching before posting but the answers I came across don't fit my situation. I live in Georgia and we've been having temperaturea in the 30s and lower 20s which isn't really that cold. All of my 30 chickens seem fine except for one young hen. I...
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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

    Thanks. I've read numerous threads and articles about treating leg issues with chicks and most of what I have read states that these issues need to be addressed right away. She scoots and flops everywhere she needs to go, mostly. She can stand and has strength but it seems she is literally...
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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

    Any ideas? Once I think I know, I second-guess myself. She can move it and seems to have proportional strength but her "hip" goes out to the side a little. However, I can move it where it needs to go without resistance but it won't stay. If her legs are stretched downward from her body (holding...
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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

    Sorry for making multiple posts for each image but I kept running into problems trying to post to a single reply.
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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

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    Day-old chick with hip/leg issue

    I'm still conducting searches but decided to make a post since a lot of the results don't seem to be exactly what I'm looking for but please excuse me if there is an existing post that addresses this issue and I missed it. Anyway, this is the situation: I just hatched a few eggs from my red...
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    Predator ID

    Thanks for the replies, everyone. Unfortunately, I lost another about a week later. However, I found no signs of her remains or a struggle. I kept the rest of them locked in the coop for a few days and started alternating their schedules as I'm pretty certain I've been losing them in the...
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    Predator ID

    I've lost two silkies to a predator in the last 6 months. Can anyone provide some insight on what they think is the most likely culprit based on the following information. Attack happens during the daytime (chickens are secure at night). Both times, I've found a mess of feathers at the edge of...
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    Chick missing eye

    Didn't want to make a new thread but it seems that a third chicken is having eye problems. I just noticed it today but one of its eyes has a very film over it making the eye seem really hazy. Actually, I would describe it more as appearing appearing to have a grey membrane covering it. I caught...
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    Lazy chickens

    I would be interested in that link if anyone else happens to have it. I would like to let them live our their lives as I do not plan to butcher these two. I've been toying with the idea of removing the feed from the coop so they will be forced to go out and scratch or find food when I let them...
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    Lazy chickens

    I will post some pictures when I get home but I believe they are "meat" chickens as they came from the local school which got them from a chicken hatchery here. Was it a bad decision to combine them to my other chickens?
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    Chick missing eye

    They definitely didn't seem to be born that way. One of them did appear to have an injury but by the time I saw it, the eye was basically gone. I just noticed the other chick yesterday and it looks as if the eye has been gone for a while. He is a black colored chick so I didn't notice right away...
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    Lazy chickens

    Okay so I already had a "flock" of game chickens consisting of a rooster, hen, and four chicks. My dad had about 14 white chickens that were given to him by the school. This was a little much for him so I took in two of the hens and added them to my flock. Well, the two I took seem rather lazy...
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