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    Rhode Island Red won't walk

    I've been hand feeding her a egg yolk mixed with some cottage cheese, flaxseeds, chia seeds, a little of their feed and honey. My girls caught a wild chicken at their horseback riding lessons. This chicken is older and sort of adopted the baby RIR chicks. When I first brought the RIR in the...
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    Rhode Island Red won't walk

    I just had a meat bird that had that. I just processed her early. The RIR does not have that. Foot looks fine. I can't see any type of cut or sore.
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    Rhode Island Red won't walk

    I have Black Australorps and RIR's along with 6 meat birds in my backyard. When the BA were in the brooder I had one that her little foot curled up. Someone suggested maybe it was a vitamin deficiency. So I put some in the water. She never fully recovered but was always able to walk. So she just...
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    Dead chicken

    We had a raccoon come in our yard and hurt two chickens. One has a tear in the crown, the other one lost her crown all together. I put them in a separate coop and put antibiotics in their water. They are doing fine. The raccoon got into our big coop and killed two chickens. I have a cinder block...
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    I Need a Name

    I just got 4 Rhode Island Reds. My 5 youngest children are adopted from China so anything Chinese is near and dear to my heart. My pug is named Hua Mei (China/USA). The chickens are named: dim sum...to touch your heart shui Jiao .....dumplings Kuai zi....chopsticks wo chi su....I am...
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    Got our new baby chicks today!

    We went down to Del's and bought 4 Rhode Island Reds today. This is our first time having chickens. They are 3 weeks old. We have them in a storage bin with a red light on top. My husband put some mesh into the lid so the kids and dogs couldn't get at them. Now my husband has to build a coop...
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