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    Cull or Treat?

    Hi everyone, im trying to understand what is up with my hen. She was a beautiful, Stunning hen we got from a (now known) not so reputable breeder. Over the winter we noticed she started to lose some feathers on her head and assumed she was getting pecked. She kept losing more feathers and they...
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    Aggressive, Broody Hen

    I have 2 little kids who would be devastated. But I suppose we could make room for 2 more 🙄
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    Aggressive, Broody Hen

    well that’s the thing for us: we have 17hens now (9 new chicks) and no more room. I don’t want to get eggs to hatch and have to do something bc my kids would be devastated. And yes, her crate is elevated, wire and no bedding. This has been a tough one...
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    Aggressive, Broody Hen

    Agree. And we got 9 new new chicks for a total of 17 hens now and we don’t want more so I don’t want to hatch more
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    Aggressive, Broody Hen

    es, it’s a wire crate with no bottom to try to cool her down. She’s missing all her belly feathers too. And she’s normally a very calm and kind hen so when she’s pecking and jumping on her sister hens it’s hard to watch. We let her out of the crate yesterday for a bit to see what she’d do, and...
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    Excessively Broody Hen

    my Orpington, who is known to get broody from time to time has reached a new level and I’m worried. After her latest round (this is 4 now) we put her in her quarentine crate. She’s been in there for 10 days. Drinking but unsure about eating.Today we took her out to see how she is and she became...
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    Excessively Broody Hen

    Hey all, my Orpington, who is known to get broody from time to time has reached a new level and I’m worried. After her latest round (this is 4 now) we put her in her quarentine crate. She’s been in there for 10 days. Drinking but unsure about eating.Today we took her out to see how she is and...
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    Rooster???

    ‍♀️‍♀️‍♀️‍♀️ We weren’t looking for one but we’ll take him. All things considered he’s been pretty...decent behavior wise... ‍♀️
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    Rooster???

    He is maybe 4 months....
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    Rooster???

    so I think this white thing is a rooster, no? “She” was supposed to be a hen but of late she’s been grown a ton, her tail is really pretty and she’s always been a little aggressive. Plus this morning someone in our hen house “cock-a-doodle-do’d” and of all our chicks, she seems to be the only...
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    Temporary Paralysis... Marek’s or Something else?

    hi chicken friends. I have a strange situation with my 2.5 month Cochin. I poultry dusted all of our 6 chicks this past week. The next day my husband went to check on them and Henny Penny was laying around and could not move; she was flopping. My husband was worried her back was broken. She was...
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    Help!!!! So frustrated!!!!!!

    Thank you. This is the most chicks we’ve ever had at one time and feel like we’re doing something wrong. We lost a Cochin when she fell from the brooder (run over by a bigger chick), a bantem who was always a little lethargic, now this with my gold laced and have a Rhode Island too who is acting...
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    Help!!!! So frustrated!!!!!!

    Thank you so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it. Well keep our eye on her for sure.
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    Help!!!! So frustrated!!!!!!

    Would she still have those infections if she was a month old now?
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    Help!!!! So frustrated!!!!!!

    She is pooping. I separated her for a long time today and she pooped. She’s eating and drinking and acting fine. She is about a month old now. I just don’t know what to make of this...
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