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    Twins every time!

    So we bought this chicken that's laying age a month ago or so. We live in Indiana and it has been a hot summer, so the laying has been down, but it's been cool the past week or so and over the past few days we got three eggs. Each of them looked about the same, just skinnier than an egg bought...
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    New Hampshire Red, Hen or Rooster

    The tail feathers look like a hen's, but the comb and eyes are rooster. You can't really know for sure until about six months when they start getting spurs but from the picture, I'd say it's a rooster.
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    Gender of these chickens

    We don't have enough space and enough hens to separate them. From what I've heard from others, they say that the roosters should fight a bit, establish a pecking order, and then be fine with maybe a few shuffles here and there. Animals in general don't really fight to the death because it wastes...
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    Gender of these chickens

    We thought these two were hens when we got them, but they look like this now, crow at us, and are fighting each other as of tonight. How do you deal with roosters fighting?
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    Niacin deficiency

    I will, thank you!
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    Niacin deficiency

    We went to a drug store and got niacin powder and have been putting it in their water while also feeding them different foods with niacin in them. Would the water be better than this? She's standing fine, but she almost steps on her other foot when taking a step.
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    Niacin deficiency

    We've been raising chickens for awhile and decided that we would get 3 ducks as well. Everything was going well until we noticed one of the ducks was having trouble walking. She had large hocks and swollen legs in general. She was walking bowlegged and pigeon toed too, so we decided she probably...
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    Baby chick is sick. I think it may be cocci.

    Thank you. It sucks that a dead chick is what brought me here but at least I have a community to get help from when I need it now haha
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    Baby chick is sick. I think it may be cocci.

    How many times would you say to clean the cage? Currently I do it once a week, but do you need to do it more than that?
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    Baby chick is sick. I think it may be cocci.

    It is dead. I would still like to know what this might have been for the others just in case. The way it died was it spasmed multiple times, shifting its head forward before laying it down and not breathing
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    Baby chick is sick. I think it may be cocci.

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    Baby chick is sick. I think it may be cocci.

    A week and a half ago, my family decided to buy chickens. We have a total of six and they've all been doing really well until this morning when my sister noticed one of them was laying down with its eyes closed and not moving. She got me when she picked it up and it was basically limp in her...
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