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    Chicken friend from finland ❤️🐓

    I first got chickens when I was in second grade and asked my parents if we could get chickens. They liked the idea and soon our backyard playhouse was turned into a chicken house! We had a lot of hy-line browns at the start, and after a few years we added silkies and a silkie rooster to the mix...
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    Rooster missing both spurs, health declining slowly

    Update: We euthanized him yesterday due to him becoming paralyzed. Legs stopped working in the morning and he kept leaning forward alot. I have a theory that it was most likely marek’s disease, I feel like the stress from moving, getting new chickens and breaking off his spurs made his immune...
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    Rooster missing both spurs, health declining slowly

    Complete feed as in suitable for laying hens and roosters, I live in finland so it might be a bit difficult explaining the brand and such. I have a multivitamin bottle that has the vitamins A, D, E, K and B. I felt his crop again, it’s stiff and when I touch it the crop takes a while to get...
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    Rooster missing both spurs, health declining slowly

    Crop feels full, maybe a bit fuller than usual?
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    Rooster missing both spurs, health declining slowly

    He has complete chicken feed available, a bit of chicken treat mix (mealworms, corn, oats, apple, carrot, etc.) fresh water, and I’ve given him zucchini slices daily, and today he ate a bunch of tuna in sunflower oil. Plus he has taken a liking to a few bits of progut feed daily (helps with...
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    Rooster missing both spurs, health declining slowly

    My rooster, a 3 year old araucana lost both of his spurs during the summer, took a month for the other spur to fall off. The first was an accident, he flew down from the coop but hit the chicken wire instead. I don’t know how he lost the second one, I randomly found it on the ground one day...
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