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    Budget Florida Coops for 3-10 chickens We're definitely budget folks. And luckily for us, the right (free) materials materialized at just the right time to get us going. First off, we had three chickens in a small A-frame tractor type coop we built in an evening. Most was made out of...
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    HELP!!! 6 week old chick suddenly collapsed, mixed signs of life

    I'm worried about my chickens. One of the other ones is jerking its neck in a funny way. I'm afraid they might have some larger neurological problem. Now I'm wishing I had a necropsy done on the first one who died Friday or at least called the extension about it, but then again, it was a...
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    Bumble foot journey coming to an end

    I worked hard on two chickens we have that have bumblefoot, they are white leghorns. They've never had any trouble walking, and all the treatments I did did little to help...the swelling would go down and then a few weeks later come back. So I just decided to stop fighting it. That was about...
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    HELP!!! 6 week old chick suddenly collapsed, mixed signs of life

    Our poor sweet little barred rock roo passed away, very peacefully. We've lost so many chickens lately, all to predators and one accident, at least then though we could learn from the experiences and figure out a way to make our chickens safer. I'm so sad to loose our little roo so silently...
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    HELP!!! 6 week old chick suddenly collapsed, mixed signs of life

    We tried to drop a bit of water in his mouth and he isn't swallowing or anything, he's completely unconscious, and we are afraid of doing anything that might hurt him. We've looked over his body and everything is perfect, no problems or anything... We also can't tell for sure that he's...
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    HELP!!! 6 week old chick suddenly collapsed, mixed signs of life

    We just got home and one of our chicks was collapsed in the pen, absolutely no signs of something wrong, last saw them about 5 hours ago and all appeared fine. He's warm, not stiff, but we can't really tell about breathing (too shallow???) we seem to feel a slight pulse. They had knocked over...
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    One week old banty - go back to another mother or not?

    Is it a staggered hatch under the broody? If so, I would guess she might not wait long enough to hatch the eggs that have another week if you leave the already hatched chick with her. So if that is the only one that would hatch early, I would take it out and put it with your one week old, so...
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    2 broodies and our chicks just arrived... HELP! quick questions!

    So...should we separate the broodies and give them chicks? Right now they are sharing a nestbox and have been for 2-3 weeks, and when one gets up the other covers her eggs until she gets back. I think they've bonded a lot, but I'm nervous about leaving them together. They are both in a coop...
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    Our first chicken just went to the coop in the sky...

    So sorry about the loss of your friend! I've had chickens two and a half years now, and every loss is hard, not just the first (but that's the one memorialized in my sig tag). All our losses have come from predators and accidents, not illness, though they are all hard. I'm sure you did...
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    Moving a broody hen's nest?

    Did you move her nest during the day or at night? I've heard at night is best...they are disoriented by the dark and just wake up happy with where they are. Is she going back to where her eggs where? Good luck! We've had non traditional broodies...two red sex links and a welsummer, and...
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    Wondering what happened to my chickie. :(

    Did you isolate it from your other birds? I don't have enough experience to know what happened, but hope your other chickies won't get sick as well.
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    Injured beak on our Barred Rock

    I think it's causing her pain and that's part of why she's not eating. She tries, but she doesn't seem to be able to pick things up and doesn't seem to be able to open and close her mouth how she's used to. Yesterday (the first day it happened) she was almost stretching her nose, and I could...
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    Help! My hen won't walk, eat, drink....

    Could she be broody? Mine act very reserved and have monstrous poops and can't be seen eating and drinking when they are broody...
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    Injured beak on our Barred Rock

    Yesterday, I was checking on our chickens and noticed that our Barred Rock, Sweets, has an injury to her beak. I'm not sure what could have caused it. A fox came in our yard this morning and scared them, so maybe she jammed her head against the wall of the coop? It's walls are part wood, part...
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    Was this a good idea. I moved a broody hen,now she,,,,

    Best to move them at night, then the broody just wakes up in her new environment and is more likely to stay setting. And it's much less risky to move her before the eggs hatch...we made the mistake of trying to move a broody and her day old chicks in the dark and one got stepped on (VERY sad...).
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