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    Bottom beak excessively protruding

    Great...thank you so much for the advice!
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    Bottom beak excessively protruding

    Hi, thank you for responding. I have the pictures attached below. I'll be sure to put a block in their run for them. And I'll be very careful when trimming.
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    Bottom beak excessively protruding

    I just noticed two of my girl's bottom beaks are about a half inch longer than their top beaks and starting to curl upward. I wish I would have caught this sooner, but we're in central WI and have had a lot of snow, so the girls haven't been out of their coop for awhile (they don't like the...
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    Sneezing chicken

    Hello all! I'm sorry this response is so late, but a lot has been going on since I posted my question. Long story short...my gal has stopped sneezing. My brother-in-law who had chickens years ago, suggested I add apple cidar vinegar to their water. After a few short days, voila, the sneezing...
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    Sneezing chicken

    Hello all! I have a chicken who started sneezing a couple weeks ago. At first it was a few times here and there, but now it's like every 30 seconds. She then seems to open her mouth to "breathe" afterwards. I've cleaned her nostrils a few times thinking something was lodged in them, but it...
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    Chicken in lethagic, won't eat and drink, closes eyes

    I just let me chickens out of their pen to run around for awhile. They all seemed to be doing fine for a good 10-15 minutes, but then one of them wandered off and just stood still for a long while. She won't eat any worms I offer her. She just closes her eyes and flops down on her side. Her...
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    Letting chickens roam in woods

    I never thought about the transfer of the oils. Thanks. I'm only going to let the chickens roam when we're outside gardening, swimming, etc. We do have a lot of critters too...coon, fox, possom, badgers, etc. Nothing has ventured real close to the house when we've been outside though, so I...
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    Letting chickens roam in woods

    Thank you for your reply. I'm glad to hear that. We'd like to let them roam, but don't want them on our lawn. (We don't want poopy all over the place.) So I'm sure they'll find lots of goodies in the woods. Thanks again!
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    Letting chickens roam in woods

    We just got our very first chickens a few days ago. So far they have been penned, but we would like to let them roam around in the woods in the backyard. Would the chickens know to stay away from poisonous plants like poison ivy and burning nettle? I know we have some of that back there...not...
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