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    How to re-integrate a hen to the flock

    We have 11 hens--five hens are almost 4 years old, one hen is 2 1/2 and the rest are 1 1/2 years old. We were able to integrate the younger generations without incident. One of the younger generation Comets started looking puny so I put her in the chicken hospital in the garage. She perked up...
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    comb and wattle pale, lethargic

    2 year old silver laced wyandotte is lethargic since last night. She didn't sleep on the roost, instead sitting on the droppings pit. I had to make her get up this morning. She isn't interested in a treat. Yesterday in the nest I found a soft shell egg that had been mashed flat and in...
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    What breed do you have that is still laying in this cold weather?

    My white leghorn rarely misses a day.
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    chicken lethargic and seems puffy

    2 year old Golden Laced Wyandotte isn't doing well. This has been going on for three days. She's lethargic and tonight not even interested in scratch when I gave the rest of the girls a treat. She looks like her tail feathers are trying to point down toward the ground rather than up and...
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    2 yr old Hen very sick, need advice ASAP. don't know what else to do.

    Check the forum for information about an impacted crop. I had a hen who became lethargic. Her crop was really swollen. I tried all the remedies--massaging it, apple cider vinegar in water, yogurt, holding her upside down and having her vomit it out. Sorry to say, i still lost her, but if you...
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    Can someone explain broody behavior???

    My comet repeatedly went broody. She would sit on the eggs others laid and stay there day and night. She puffs up and squaks when I go to get her off the nest. I would repeatedly pull her off the nest and fight with her to make her go outside with the other birds. When pulling her off the...
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    rooster babies and caponizing

    We put fertile eggs under a broody hen and wouldn't you know it, of the four that hatched, I got 3 roosters. We're not allowed to keep roosters because of the crowing. I've found plenty of people willing to take and eat the guys, but no farm needs a rooster to go and live with them. Someone...
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    While you sleep tonight...

    Can you answer some questions for me--seems like you've done this before. I have a broody Comet that stayed broody for several months inspite of all I did to break her. Someone suggested I give her some fertilized eggs to hatch. I called our local hatchery yesterday and was told if I didn't...
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    impacted crop

    This morning she was still alive, at least. There was a puddle of poo under where she was standing that looked like she deficated the olive oil I shoved in her yesterday. Is that a good sign that something is passing through her? Anyway, this morning her crop still felt like a large water...
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    Stupid question about winter heat and ventilation

    Well, the pop door is pretty small--just big enough for the chickens to go through. Across from my pop door on the wall of the run (the run is just a really big chain link dog run) I hung a tarp that breaks the wind and rain from blowing in the pop door. I've read where other people hang...
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    impacted crop

    My 1 1/2 year old comet is lethargic, not eating or drinking. Yesterday her poop was mucus-y and at one point she deficated what looked like the gristle you find in cooked chicken. Really weird. I separated her last night with water but no feed. Today she's not pooping much of anything...
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    Hen is suddenly "off" and has weird poop/diarrhea

    Glad to here your chicken is hanging in there. My hen's crop makes noise when you pat it like it's full of liquid. We put more olive oil in her and tried the upside down routine again but nothing came up this time, not even olive oil. She won't eat yogurt. I just mashed up the yolk of an egg...
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    Hen is suddenly "off" and has weird poop/diarrhea

    I have a two year old that started acting listless, exactly like you described, and had some mucus-y waste. First I checked to be sure she wasn't egg bound and then I read that I should check her crop. It was huge and felt like a squishy water balloon. I've decided she has an impacted crop...
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    lethargic chicken passes strange waste product

    1 1/2 year old Comet started acting lethargic last night. Today she's sitting when she should be exploring with the other girls. When I picked her up there was a mucus-y waste under her. I massaged her crop and then gave her some bread with olive oil. Almost immediately she went to the...
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    One dead hen, 4 bare butts - blu kote?hotpick? pine tar?

    I just ordered a bottle of Pick No More. So is this a bad habit, like biting your fingernails? I was really surprised that she upped the picking after putting on pine tar. I expected that to be a repellent. I know I feel trapped during the winter. I guess she could be bored. And their run...
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