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    Lethargic chicken, doesn't open one eye. Help please!

    thanks for your advice. I haven't done it till now, because we have only got a rabbit run thing to put her in, and it has no nesting area for overnight. Plus, she has just been going downhill slowly for a long time, and the others seem fine. It's only the last couple of days that she hasn't...
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    Lethargic chicken, doesn't open one eye. Help please!

    Thanks for replying - I thought I'd said something wrong, as no-one was talking to me! She is certainly eating plenty of layers pellets, and drinking happily. I'm not sure about poo. I ought to look into that one tomorrow. We are in the UK, so she's gone to bed already. Well, she didn't...
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    Lethargic chicken, doesn't open one eye. Help please!

    Our hybrid chicken is quite old. She is about 3 years now, and hasn't laid eggs for a year. We had been lead to believe that this was to be expected for her breed, when we bought her. She has been adopting a tail down sad posture for about a month now, and we assumed she was just aging. But...
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    Yellow poo

    Thanks for your advice guys. I have collected a sample, but just one thing before I go off with it... I phoned the place we got the chickens from and the lady there said that about 1 in every 10 poos from a bird will be different to 'regular' poo. Do you think that it could be this? I...
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    Yellow poo

    Hi, I'm Liz, and very new to chicken keeping. Two weeks ago, we bought 4 chickens at POL, but one of them, a White Star, is doing very yellow poo. The others are fine. She is not laying yet, and at first we thought it would be to do with her skittish nature from her breeding line, and being...
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