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    3yo hen, waddling walk, distended abdomen, pain?

    Thank you so much! I was thinking about draining last night but now that her breathing is better, I'll wait.
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    3yo hen, waddling walk, distended abdomen, pain?

    Thanks!
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    3yo hen, waddling walk, distended abdomen, pain?

    Our 3 year old Rhode Island Red waddles with wide spread legs like a penguin, avoids to move, her abdomen is distended ( ascites?), her tail points down. Yesterday, her breathing was fast, probably because her lungs are compressed from the pressure in the abdomen. We noticed it yesterday...
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    egg laying almost stopped since the spring

    Free feeding. We have a bucket with two street elbows they can help themselves from. They are pretty predictable as to how long it takes until it needs refilled.
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    egg laying almost stopped since the spring

    3 2yo ISA Brown, a 3yo Rhode Island Red, and a 4yo Barred Rock produce a total of one egg a day (probably a single layer in the bunch, we don't know who it is) for 10 months now. There is no place for them to have a hidden nest/we look around. Unless they lay and eat right away, but then you...
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    Molting?

    Their second. So far, we must have only have "secret molters" as we have never really seen our hens molt. Is it more common in older or younger chickens?
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    Molting?

    Thank you so much!
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    Molting?

    We have 6 hens: 2 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Barred Rock, 3 ISA Browns. One of the Rhode Islands looks pretty bad- lost or broke lots of feathers on side and back of neck, next to comb, wing, tail. The other Rhode Island has lost or broken feathers on the side of the neck. The other 4 look fine...
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    Gender and breed of the white chicken?

    Yes, they are feathered
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    Gender and breed of the white chicken?

    Hi, We got the ISA Browns exactly three months ago. The white one is from my son's classroom and about 3 weeks older, was supposed to be a sexlinked pullet. But now I'm thinking he's a rooster. My friend saw him jump onto a pullet but I haven't seen him do that. They're all rather shy, so those...
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    Very thin to no shell towards one end

    Thank you! Note I have to find out which of our three sexlinks it is...
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    Very thin to no shell towards one end

    Does anyone have advice for me? We have one not quite two year old hen that has been laying eggs with extremely thin shell towards one end or no shell at all towards one end. (This led to egg eating for a while, which we resolved with nest box curtains that keep the eggs out of sight once the...
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or A Cockerel? Click Here!

    Thank you so much!
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or A Cockerel? Click Here!

    Both hatched May 21st, so they are almost 16 weeks old. After two days of no progress I assisted the right one. Maybe that's why it's so small? Anyways, the left one doesn't crow (yet), but the tail feathers look very male to me. Is it a rooster?
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    Yawning chick?

    How did it continue? Did it have food stuck? My first thought was rooster. Happened to our "sexed as pullet chicks". Although it happen when they were about 8 weeks old.
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