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    Soft eggs then death

    No, I was not feeding spinach. But they do free range.
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    Soft eggs then death

    They are on a layer feed for a mixed flock, I should have been more clear. I am a vet tech and performed a necropsy on them but I hadn't seen anything abnormal. I think it might be egg yolk peritonitis, but everything I've read about it says it's pretty much untreatable. Would penicillin not...
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    Soft eggs then death

    They range in ages but none are older than three years old, they’re on a mixed flock mix as I have ducks and chickens. I did the deworming and corid at different times, I didn’t want to overload their systems. Breeds range too
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    Soft eggs then death

    Hey everyone, So this has been my third year with chickens and this summer has not been going very well for me. I've had five hens die on me and they all show the same symptoms before they pass: Soft shelled eggs and lethargy. First they have the soft shelled eggs and then about a day or less...
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    Chicken not acting like herself

    Hi everyone I have a 2 year old golden black laced Wyandotte that hasn’t been acting like her normal self lately. She’s been laying soft shelled eggs even though she has 24/7 access to oyster shells and I give them their egg shells crushed up to. Anyways she’s just kinda been hanging out on her...
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    What took my hen?

    We don't have any roaming dogs around but I had a theory which might be completely wrong... There has been a small little falcon hanging out in the mornings and evenings around the coop and usually once it sees me it flies away, but I'm thinking maybe she tried taking my big hen and realized...
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    What took my hen?

    Hey everyone, So the other day I came home from work and found a bunch of feathers in three distinct spots. A little further in the woods I found one of my larger hens dead. Then I did an inventory check and realized I was missing my little mallard. I left my hen in the live trap thinking...
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    Four weeks since I’ve gotten an egg

    Nope, no signs of molting what-so-ever!! I even kinda pushed away feathers to look at her skin and she has no pin feathers coming through so I really don’t think it’s that
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    Four weeks since I’ve gotten an egg

    She’s a little over a year old and she hasn’t had any signs of illness and I don’t know why she’d be stressed
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    Four weeks since I’ve gotten an egg

    hey there everyone!!! I have a silver laced Wyandotte who was laying for about 6 months and suddenly quit laying for about a month. About two weeks ago she did lay an egg with like half of a shell, so I thought calcium deficiency but I’ve given her special treatment and nothing!!! She sits in...
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    Unabsorbed yolk

    Yeah, I think that’s what was happening! Just a quick question, how long does it take for the duckling to start zipping after it has externally pipped? It’s been over 24 hours and the rest of the eggs are still doing nothing other than chirping
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    Unabsorbed yolk

    The 6 ducklings that hatched yesterday are doing good and running around, they seem a bit confused as to which duck is there mom though. I put the remaining eggs under two of my broody chickens, so at least they are doing something useful. Two hatched overnight and I put them in with the ducks...
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    Unabsorbed yolk

    Things are starting to calm down, I think all the fuss was because I switched out the bedding so I had to move the eggs and then they started to panic
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    Unabsorbed yolk

    Bigger problem now, so I have three broody ducks, two of them sit across from each other. When these babies started hatching the mom from the other nest decided she wanted these babies instead so they both were sitting on the nest. So I moved her eggs to the nest and now it's combined. Well...
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    Unabsorbed yolk

    Yes, she has them on her nest away from the rest of the flock. I will put some clean bedding underneath her and rub some antibiotic ointment on it. She still has 13 eggs to hatch so I'm hoping they start getting better!!!!!
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