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    Egg bound chicken?

    How do I tell if my chicken is egg bound and, if she is, how do I up her?
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    Help! My wife is mad at me for feeding the chickens pizza!

    People are going to run around like their hair is on fire and tell you to never feed table scraps to your chickens but I've got to be honest with you, my girls get table scraps all the time. Mind you, their main food is a healthy layer feed supplemented with meal worms but they get the scraps...
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    freakishly long talons

    I've got twenty some odd chickens, different breeds, different ages and stages of life. They all have normal feet except one. This gal has freakishly long talons. Quite frankly I'm not sure how she walks. Is this a normal thing? Are we supposed to trim their nails?
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    Daily routine with your flock

    Zip ties are also really handy for keeping track of who you have and haven't dusted for mites and so on. My girls have recently become the "Charmed ones". I found some really cute zip tie charms on line and I use them as part of my chicken registry. There is a picture of each hen, a picture of...
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    Official BYC Poll: Excess eggs, what do you do with them?

    Which food bank do you donate to?
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    Official BYC Poll: Why Do You Have Chickens?

    Big, glorious, delicious eggs. Also chickens are like potato chips: you can't just have one. I started with six chickens four years ago and this year my flock will grow to twenty-six. And that's after rehoming several roosters. I seem to have a knack for getting late blooming roosters. I'll...
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    Need help with a sick chicken

    Mykamom, I don't think your suggestion was dumb at all. Nothing has changed so I don't get the easy answer. The cough is gone and the watery poop has gone back to being soupy. Nobody is acting sick at all right now. Unfortunately they presented me with a new mystery. This time of year I...
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    Need help with a sick chicken

    @micstrachan, thank you for your kind words. For now I'm going to continue to watch the situation. As I mentioned before, she is NOT showing any signs of feeling poorly. Just the cough/sneeze and poop. She eats and drinks fine, has plenty of energy, good color and laying just fine. This...
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    Need help with a sick chicken

    I have a chicken who seems to have something wrong with her. She is doing this weird cough/sneeze thing and has watery poop. No runny eyes or nose, no bloody stools, and not even acting sick. Just the cough and the watery poop. She's been doing this for several weeks. She in with 20 other...
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    Egg laying after a molt

    When my girls began their molt last September they stopped laying eggs and didn't start again till April! They are molting again and I'd like to know how to help my chickens resume egg laying sooner rather than later.
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    Half my hens stopped laying

    Hello Everyone, I have a mixed flock of six hens. They are just a year old and, up until a month ago, all were laying faithfully every day. A month ago we had a heat wave (triple digits) and during that time three chickens stopped laying. I figured that the heat had put them off their...
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    Hoping you can help, my chicken is sick.

    Thanks so much for the advice. Each chicken that got sick (yes, it spread) got hand fed sugar water every 15 minutes until they rallied enough to drink on their own and then they had water treated with Corid. It looks like everyone is going to live :-)
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    Hoping you can help, my chicken is sick.

    Hello, I have a six week old Ameraucana and she is acting sick. Last night, when I put them to bed, all the chicks looked and acted fine. This morning my Ameraucana "Cleo" is lethargic, not eating or drinking, and warm to the touch. None of the other chicks seem to be affected. I'm a...
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