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    I think my chick has a broken wing(s)

    Yes, they're on medical starter, they're housed in rabbit cages outside with a heat lamp at night (temps in the 50's). Daytime temps are in the 80's-90's, and I let them run around on the ground for about an hour or two each day. Just a tiny bit of fuzz left around the neck area of two. I did...
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    I think my chick has a broken wing(s)

    Hi, We have four chicks, they're six weeks old. This morning when I went to check on them, my otherwise active and noisy Golden Campine chick was dragging her wings. I think she might have gotten stepped on. At one point when I let them wander around she fell over and seemed unable to get...
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    Mean Hen

    Yeah, it ended up I had to pull sweetie out, when any of the others even got close to her she cried out and hid her face, so meanie's back in. I'll try the hanging treat idea, but the sweet one likes to sleep a lot, so I think she'll be safer by herself. She's my toddler's favorite, so it's...
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    Mean Hen

    I'm new to raising chickens, and I understand about pecking order, but it seems like my "head hen" is just being mean. She's been pecking at the eyes of the others, and this has resulted in an injury to my sweetest hen. So I've seperated the mean one, and everybody else seems like they're...
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    Brand new chicken sneezed

    Thank you!
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    Brand new chicken sneezed

    Hi, my husband and I have been "talking" about getting chickens for several months. Tonight he came home with three chickens and a temporary cage for them, feed, waterer, etc. (traded for them with a customer-he's a plumber) One of them sneezed a couple of times, could that just be stress? For...
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