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    Chicks sold as Chocolate Opringtons but one doesn't look like the others + mystery bantam

    Yeah, I unfortunately can't get closer without a finger being ripped off. Mama hen isn't very friendly without chicks. Without chicks she's downright feral. If I have no orpingtons I'll be a bit annoyed. I loved my orpingtons. My black sex-link is a handful. It would explain their outgoing...
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    Chicks sold as Chocolate Opringtons but one doesn't look like the others + mystery bantam

    The three larger ones were in the chocolate orpington bin, but there's a copper one who doesn't match. I have suspected he was a rooster since the day I bought him, but at that young age he shouldn't look *that* different right? Also any guesses on the little yellow bantam? It was sold as an...
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    Chicken having really weird nesting and egg behaviors. Could it be the respiratory illness causing it?

    Yup, all nesting gets changed daily and checked until I'm sure the mites are gone. They had red mites, black mites, and white things that were either mites or lice. Either way they got treated for everything. With their weak immune systems the mite problem quickly became a mite infestation. I...
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    Chicken having really weird nesting and egg behaviors. Could it be the respiratory illness causing it?

    I'll get them some B complex and beef liver to add to their diet. Some of them do have pale combs currently. I've been trying to troubleshoot it as best I can. It seems really strange to me that it can take her 3+ days to lay one egg, but she will lay several pretend eggs in the meantime. I've...
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    Chicken having really weird nesting and egg behaviors. Could it be the respiratory illness causing it?

    My flock has a recurring respiratory illness that we're still in the process of tracking down. They've also had mites (all of them!) due to their weakened immune system. Those are under control now though. My current problem is my top hen. Roughly a month after all my hens began their...
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    Chicken constantly looking for nests, singing egg songs, but no eggs?

    Again sorry for the slow reply. I immediately got sick after coming home. 🤦🏻‍♀️I'm only now getting up and around again. Here's the weird thing. She laid an egg the other day! It wasn't a very good egg. It had a weird red indentation on it and a ton of calcium buildup. She laid the egg...
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    Chicken constantly looking for nests, singing egg songs, but no eggs?

    Late reply - I've been out of cell range for a while. (Backcountry road trip!) They have access to oyster shells, but they won't eat them. They free-range the yard during the day and seem to prefer whatever they find out there. They do have access to food and scratch, and plenty of dinner...
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    Chicken constantly looking for nests, singing egg songs, but no eggs?

    (not sure if this belongs here or in illnesses) Gretchen is a Rhode Island Red hen. Last year she laid her eggs with no problems, then took a break for fall/winter. All my other hens have begun laying for the spring/summer again except her. She likes to follow the other hens to the nesting box...
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    Sick chicken has mystery blackening on comb/waddles

    I wasn't able to get samples in time unfortunately. I was going to take the body over today for a necropsy, but I wasn't able to make it before they closed. When we had the raccoon attack I had to bribe a neighbor to move the body for me, so no chance of me doing my own poke about. I do have...
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    Sick chicken has mystery blackening on comb/waddles

    Well. I guess that solves that issue. I went to tube feed her and she struggled. I might have gotten it down the wrong pipe. I pulled it out and forgot to crimp it. Some liquid came up with it. I gave her a minute to recover and cough up anything she needed to before trying to feed her through...
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    Sick chicken has mystery blackening on comb/waddles

    I wonder why the vet put them on Amoxicillin then. That was the first thing she did. I don't know if she's ever laid an egg. I think she got sick around the time her sister began laying. She's maybe laid two eggs? If so it's been a long while. I do have some antibiotics from Jedds, but I don't...
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    Sick chicken has mystery blackening on comb/waddles

    She's almost exactly a year old. My flock is now a closed flock since we're pretty sure they have a chronic lifelong respiratory illness. I'm sending out samples tomorrow for testing since the local vets aren't that great. The current theory is that since their immune systems are compromised...
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    Sick chicken has mystery blackening on comb/waddles

    My lavender Orpington has this awful respiratory illness. She's been sick for over a month. She's got rough breathing, runny poop, decreased appetite, had extreme thirst, and now is underweight and do lethargic I can catch her. She's now got minor head shakes and I'm tube feeding her. She also...
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    Tiny, soft, pea sized egg but the suspected hen is in the nesting box less than 12 hours later. Can they remake a misfire that quick?

    I'm pretty sure my bantam white wyndotte had a tiny misfire egg. I found what I suspect to be her first egg of the season yesterday. She laid near where I found this egg. Her first egg would have been laid between 2-6 yesterday. I didn't see it when I put the chickens away at 8pm yesterday. I...
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    Any guesses on what breeds this chicken might be?

    Can't you make a bantam out of anything? Or am I misremembering? I figured she's an Easter egger, but I just wanted to be sure. I've never seen someone with a posture like hers before. And her coloring. Where would she get her coloring from? I've never seen one quite like hers. She's...
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