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    Dog Attack

    The dog escaped from someone's car, I applied neosporin to the wound and gave her food, water, and coconut water. She seems to be doing okay, I think most of the blood was from the feathers being ripped out, I don't see any gaping wounds. For now she is in a cat carrier with shavings and we are...
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    Dog Attack

    A dog today attacked my chickens and 3 are missing, 4 are fine, and 1 I found in the coop with feathers missing from her back. She seems to be doing okay, is walking around with a slightly droopy wing, I think her foot may be a little scratched, but my main concern is her back. Her cushion...
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    Pheasant with Pinkeye?

    We have a few pheasants living around our house, and one of them has something on its eye. It is a milky white sheen over the eye, no goop or discharge, but it does seem to bother him, as he blinks his eye like he's starting to fall asleep. The cornea looks cloudy and filmy, and it almost looks...
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    chicks growth rate

    In my experience it usually takes them about 4-5 weeks to have mostly feathers and a little fuzz left, which is about the time they start flying out of or perching on the side of my brooder. If you get just hatched chicks that's probably how long you have until they get too big for a brooder...
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    20 feet of roost space, and 8 chickens huddle in about...

    Mine do that too, I guess they just feel safer in a group.
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    Earlobe and comb have black stuff, disease maybe...

    I have had this with my birds before and the vet checked it and said nothing was wrong, and with all my birds it pops up from time to time. If she shows any other symptoms, I would worry. If there are only black spots I would think you are fine:)
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    black on the comb??

    I get these black spots on the combs a lot. My birds are never affected by it, and I have had it checked out, and there is no reason to be concerned. If it is cold where you are there is a possibility of frostbite, but you just need to put some vaseline on them and they will be just fine. But...
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    ROOSTER"S SPUR FELL OFF

    Not really sure how it fell off, but people do take spurs off of their roosters, so I would just keep checking it over the next few days, and if it doesn't stop bleeding then there will be cause for concern. My guess is that the spur underneath will harden, but if it doesn't then I'm sorry I...
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    Egg laying from perch-what do I do

    You can try putting golf balls in her nest boxes. Sometimes they don't know where a safe place to lay is, so they don't lay until they have to, and the golf balls will show them the nest boxes are safe. Also if you have a light in the coop it would be best to turn it off because they will still...
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    Supper's New Disappearing Act

    I have a chicken that enjoys laying her eggs in hidden nests too! It is a problem, but sometimes you just have to follow them around the whole day from a distance and you will find out where her nest is. It's a bit ridiculous, but once I find the nest, I take out all the eggs and then a few more...
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    Rubber Eggs?

    It does work with egg shells, but in order to not start egg eating, you need to smash them beyond recognition, otherwise you will have a whole new problem on your hands
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    Rubber Eggs?

    It sounds like you might be dealing with a chicken laying soft-shelled eggs. This means that she probably has a calcium deficiency, so she cannot physically produce eggs with a hard shell. All you need to do is give them some oyster shell or grit to snack on around the run or in their food, and...
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    Egg identification help...

    I have a friend that has a rhodebar, and I am not sure, but I think that she lays speckled eggs. It looks a little big for a cochin. All of the eggs I have collected from standard cochins are very small, regardless of how fluffy they are. I am not positive either way, but I am betting on rhodebar.
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    Strange wattle

    If it is cold then put vaseline on her comb and wattles to prevent frostbite.
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    color changing comb and wattle

    I think it's more of a hormone surge, it happens to my blue Langshan all the time. It is nothing to worry about, it just happens. Can mean she will start laying fairly soon.
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