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    Ended Contest #7 Most Striking Domestic MALE Fowl Contest 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Chickie 2 years old Momma is a mille fleur cochin. Dad is a grey silkie. He's a bantam.
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    Hen wants nothing to do with new chick.

    Laverne sat on 3 eggs. She kicked one egg out of her "nest" last week. One wasn't fertilized. One hatched between last night and today. She wants nothing to do with it. I don't have a brooder. All our previous hatches were taken care of by their mommas. Any suggestions on keeping this...
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    What does an impacted crop feel like?

    I have a 6 month old pullet with a large marble size knot at the base of her neck above the breast bone on the right side. She is eating, drinking and pooping normally. I carried her around some over the weekend and felt nothing. Now this. Is an impacted crop what I'm feeling? Will ACV help...
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    Eats, Drinks, Poops, but Stumbles when she Walks

    ACK! It looks like its worms. Really bad worms from what I've read because there was a curly white one about an inch long in her poop today. I've gotten Safeguard and have treated all the chickens. Now I'm off to strip the coop of all bedding. Hopefully the Safeguard will make things...
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    Eats, Drinks, Poops, but Stumbles when she Walks

    No ear wax. She is shedding feathers, but is not molting like Laverne did. Maybe it is molting.
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    Eats, Drinks, Poops, but Stumbles when she Walks

    Lucy is about a year and a half old. She is a silkie. About 4 days ago she didn't want treats when I gave them their morning worms. That was odd. That night when I checked on them before bed, everyone was on the roost but Lucy. So I took her in the house and put her in the cage we can keep...
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    The General - a Red Silkie Rooster

    We named him "The General" because of his broad chest and wide comb. He looks regal. BUT out of 8 chickens in our flock, 3 are roosters. Its time to send one off to a good home. He will definitely keep the ladies happy. Also, since my husband and I do Old MacDonald's Barn at the Montgomery...
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    Is this a soft shell egg?

    No mess. No broken shell or anything. Just this.
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    Is this a soft shell egg?

    Because we took her to the county fair, Lucy has been quarantined in a cage away from the rest of the flock. To our knowledge she has never laid an egg before. This evening I find this in the cage. Its the size of a small egg. None of the other laying hens have soft eggs so I don't know why...
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    No symptoms, but Ethel is dead.

    We took 4 of our 9 chickens to the county fair. Ethel and the rest were left at home. Tuesday she was fine. Thursday she was sitting at the wall of the coop like she was laying an egg. She didn't get up for treats which wasn't abnormal. Saturday she was dead in the nesting box. No...
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    Is this scaly leg mite??

    It turned out to be an epidermal growth. A friend who raises chickens looked at it, scraped at it and it came off. No bleeding. We've put some triple antibiotic ointment on it and she's doing real good.
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    Is this scaly leg mite??

    Ethel is a gray silkie. When we were trimming nails yesterday, we noticed this spot on her leg just above the spur. Any idea what it is? Is it scaly leg mite? We didn't notice anything on any others. They all have dust around their scales, but nothing like Miss Ethel. Thanks for your help.
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    Is this what they mean by a "favorite nest box"? :)

    We have 3 nesting boxes and our girls prefer to lay their eggs on the floor. VERY frustrating!!!
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    10 week old with closed eye

    I got Alice at the ChickenStock in WV at the end of April. She is an approx. 10 week old Serama. She isn't growing as fast as the other Serama I got, but she's eating and drinking. Her poop seems normal. She hasn't been pecked. She's as active as she can be in the cage they are in. I...
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