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    Chicken won't walk after being beat up.

    Thanks a ton Eggcessive, that's exactly where we have her, I didn't want to completely take her away from them in case they considered her out of the group. I'll definitely keep up on her and buy some things that will help her heal up better. I would have never imagined that they could...
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    My chickens are dying.....Please help!

    LOL ours attack the cob when we throw some out for them. Sometimes we throw some random things down and they don't even bother, we have one that will follow me until I throw something better down that she knows that she likes and if I don't, she will just watch me the entire way back to the...
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    My chickens are dying.....Please help!

    Mine are contained, although here lately we let them out for a couple hours so they can hunt for worms/eat the grass in the yard at night until they are ready to go back in to the coop. They aren't bad, they are super active, although they have slowed way down on laying, we may get 1-3 eggs per...
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    My chickens are dying.....Please help!

    I wouldn't say it's too bad of a consumption rate. I have 6 hens and a 50 pound bag could honestly come close to lasting almost 2 months for us. We do give the cracked corn daily and either bread, veggies or fruits. I do believe with the last passing of the chicken is something to do with a...
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    New chicken to flock trouble

    I used this on a few chickens we brought in that had a ton of missing feathers, but we bought a pick-no-more lotion that you would rub on the affected area to get the chickens to stop pecking it. It's got a bad smell and it does stain. You can buy it at any tractor/farmer supply store. It might...
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    My chickens are dying.....Please help!

    Hey Princefarms! With the pale comb and face that usually leads to dehydration. Have you noticed any behavior differences in the top hen or has there been a change in the top hen? Some chickens that may have been knocked down the pecking order may refuse the whole change and they will basically...
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    Chicken won't walk after being beat up.

    Hello BYC! I usually try not to make a post about the problems I have especially if something like this has happened before with someone in the past but I couldn't dig anything up so I thought maybe someone has had this kind of problem happen before and worked a way through it and had advice or...
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    Some of my 1 wk/old chicks have a liquid brown poop

    I 2nd this, it's pretty normal for the poop in chicks to be a bit runny. As long as they are eating and drinking and staying warm, everything should be fine!
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    Is this pullet actually a roo?

    Some grow up faster than others. I wouldn't give up on them yet. When mine were chicks and started to grow deep red combs we swore they were cockerals and were going to get rid of them but they all turned out to be hens. I would wait a bit on both of them. The one with the more of a red comb...
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    Buff Orpington really sick!!!

    On a side note, the other 2 Buffs are also staying with this one in the coop, they all 3 sit on the perch but the other 2 will go out and eat and do things but for most of the day they are in there with her. I actually looked inside and saw a BR in there with them on the perch. We actually saw...
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    Buff Orpington really sick!!!

    Hello BYC, in a recent post I had mentioned about adding new hens, gold laced wyndottes, to our flock of 6, making our total 9. Well now it's been a few weeks since we got them and about a week ago one of our BOs was acting very weird. Wasn't moving very much and had her feathers all fluffed...
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    New additions gone bad...

    Oh wow, that's not bad at all! I thought for sure that it would take at least 2 months to fully grow them back. I will look into the Sevin dust as well, probably actually buy it even if they don't have mites/lice just in case some day they do get it and I have it on hand. Thanks a lot for the...
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    New additions gone bad...

    Ah ok, I just looked it up, so it's pretty obvious when you move the feathers out of the way. I will definitely be looking be checking them, if they have them, I see you can buy a spray and spray the chickens and the area they live in to kill them off. Haha well if it happens I will do whatever...
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    Owl or Crow decoys to deter hawks?

    We actually have an owl decoy that sits on one of the posts and swivels it's head around. We were hoping it would keep the little birds out of the cage but they still come around and find a way to get into their pin, which has very few areas that they can squeeze through. Here recently we too...
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    New additions gone bad...

    Yeah, I thought it was the pecking order. I'm just worried that my chickens will assume it's ok to take tail feathers off the bottom hen like these new ones are used to which to me is not ok, I'd rather have good looking chickens. I read somewhere that if they do this that you can buy something...
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