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    Egg bound symptoms - no egg??

    thank you - yes reading the other threads it does seem that way... Poor old Doris :-(
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    Egg bound symptoms - no egg??

    My 4 year old golden comet used to lay big eggs - hasnt done for a few months now - so I assumed she was 'retiring' - only got the occasional shell-less egg. Last few days has been off colour - roosting in a nest rather than on a branch & now is 'walking like a duck' - which I believe is the...
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    Dying flock - loosing 1 every few weeks since Xmas

    I have a few Golden Comets, couple leghorns & a few tufty cheek girls. Had the GCs first, then the 4H group gave us 2 leghorn hens & 1 rooster. (One of these had a dirty bottom constantly -but seemed fine as did the others for the first 6months). A neighbour hatched 15 mixed chicks for us last...
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    Trimming chicken beaks?

    Hello- I'm new to keeping chickens. I had 5 chicks in June that a weasel got to - killed 3 the other 2 were injured. 1 was bitten on the head & I thought she'd lost her eye, but she hadn't - however she developed a strange beak, the top is curling over (my sister who runs a farm thinks maybe the...
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