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    Please Help! Heat Stroke/Illness

    Sorry for your loss :(
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    Surviving Heatstroke - a long recovery story

    Long post ahead.... I thought I would share Madeline’s story in case it was useful for anyone in a similar situation, and also, because it’s story with a good ending….and sometimes you just need a happy story. Heatstroke is something I’d become very cautious about, having lost one of my...
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    Heat stroke or Mareks?

    Thanks, I'll give it a try :)
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    Heat stroke or Mareks?

    Thanks for replying so fast! When I stand her up she leans to the left and stretches her wing out to sort of prop herself up a bit before she sits back down. Was up for about 15 seconds. When she was in the run earlier her walk was weird, sort of like she was limping (I think it was her left...
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    Heat stroke or Mareks?

    I hope someone might be able to give me some advice... I have a light sussex, approx 4 months old, which I'm assuming had heatstroke. It was 30 Celcius today (summer here in NZ) and I found her unable to walk (stumbling a few steps max) though still fairly alert. I could pick her up whereas...
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    My hen keeps attacking me, please help

    I am covered in blood blisters from an attack today and I need a solution so that I can keep her :( I love my hens, I got the 3 of them as day old chicks and have raised them to 11 months. They really are pets...except one has gone evil. She never attacks the other 2 hens so I've been...
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    Do chicken recognize their owners?

    My ladies definately know me, they fuss to be let out and then just follow me and sit on my back door step and watch whats happening inside. Sometimes I forget to put up the chicken-gate at the door and I turn around and they're in the house! At the start they would hide from my family when...
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    Chickens and thunderstorms?

    My chooks still sleep in a pile (theyre 8 months), they love the roost during the day but not at bed time. They dont like their house in heavy rain or wind, I think the noise echoes inside ...maybe this is your issue as well?
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    Lost my daughter today, found her in the run with her favorite chicken... is this normal chick behav

    That is so gorgeous! I wish mine let me cuddle them like that ;)
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    What have you trained your chickens to do?

    Mine do that too! I say "in your house, in your house" and walk behind them. 90% of the time it works, the other 10% they head towards the house and just as they get to the door they all run in different directions across the yard. The also love chasing, if I run down one end of the yard the...
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    Sneezey, wheezey, honking hen...but not "sick"...??

    Actually after having a good look UP her nose it does appear blocked with black stuff. It's quite high up, not at the entrance to her nostril. No idea how to clear it :(
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    Sneezey, wheezey, honking hen...but not "sick"...??

    My much loved hen is breathing funny and sneezing a LOT, she only breathes through her mouth and it's really loud. She shound more like a goose than a hen at the moment and I feel bad for her. She was a bit unwell a couple of weeks back with weird pacing and panting but I thought she'd...
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    Panting, Pacing Chicken

    Thanks for that!! I wasn't sure about cooling methods because I was worries I'd be going from one extreme to another but I'll bring her inside with the fan on and see if that helps. Don't worry, I wasn't dunking her :) Just cooling down my hand and running it over her comb etc and also putting...
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    Panting, Pacing Chicken

    I have a 6month old Plymouth Barred Rock who is acting weird and I suspect she's unwell. She's pacing around her coop and walking into walls, into her food bowl and acting distressed. She's also panting and has a very red, hot comb/wattles (more so than usual). She's eating grain but it still...
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    Crowing hen?!?! Help please

    I have 3 hens (or so I thought) and one has started making a weird noise like it's trying to crow. I originally had 6 day-old chicks which I raised and 3 really did end up as roosters and once they started crowing had to go to a farm (I'm inner city). This chook looks nothing like the roos, but...
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