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    Can chickens eat chocolate?

    Glad I decided to check in before giving my chickens left over chocolate chip pancakes. Thanks for the info!
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    Adding Chicks

    the coop is about 4X10 Its starting to get dark now and one of the Adult hens went to her normal top roost and the other hasn't entered to coop yet. All the chicks are under Mamma I think all is good
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    Adding Chicks

    SO! We purchased five baby chicks 2 turned out to be Roos. 3 Chicks grew up and started giving us eggs. We wanted more hens. One of our girls went broody. We went to Trader Joes and purchased a dozen fertile eggs from the refrigerator section let then sit on the counter overnight then slipped...
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    Rooster?

    Rooster’s We got five baby chicks in January or February I think we may have two roosters. What do you think. The largest one is starting to caca doodle do every morning for the last few days. It’s not super loud but getting louder with time. He-she started this a few weeks ago and it wasn’t...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter laod an egg today. the other girls have let him back into the flock. back to buisness as usual.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter is prety much back to normal. not laying eggs but walking-eating and drinking. the other girls arn't messing with him much.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Another shot of the hawk after makeing a circle around the yard.. Some crows came by and chased the hawk away after I tried.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    So I go to check on him one more time before heading out to get some work done. he seems fine actually having with the other girls. on my way back into the house I see I think HAWK on the antenna. ita about the size of my eastereggers or bit smaller. Smaller than Walter for sure.. the Hawk has...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Just took this pic of him.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter is doing much better. After thoughts of the possibility of him being broody I have been trying to make him get up and walk around. Over this weekend I needed to go out of town and the wife and daughter had all day softball tournament. So she just put Walter in the back yard not the run...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    http://i1317.photobucket.com/albums/t631/ocpoolguy/IMG_0609_zps93ed5428.jpg
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Came home for lunch and found Walter sitting by the door to the run like he wants in there. They usualy want out on the run to feed on the grass. He dosn't want to get up.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Thank You. keeping Walter on the grass for now. Away from the others they can see each other but not get togher due to hardware cloth inclosed run.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Huuu So after figuring broody is the case I put Walter in the run area getting my day started drinking my coffee doing some work on the computer. Hens start squawking like they’re getting attacked. Sure enough one of the other hens an Easter egger is kicking Walters’s *** as he just sits...
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