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Quote: im tired... looks like im getting ready for the box! *other chickens* NO DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT!

Quote: May I know what does RIR and EE mean? sorry for your lost Erbaluce RIR-Rhode Island Red EE-Easter Egger

*****UPDATE!!!***** my hen didn't have merek's. she was internally bleeding

i just realized i only talked about death. *****UPDATE!!!***** my RIR hen did NOT die of merek's. She had to much calcium but didn't didn't lay enough eggs. She got a tumor type thing on her kidney filled with blood and started to bleed internally. but feel sooo much better knowing my other...

Quote: my roo when he started to crow, he sounded hoarse. my friend had a bantam roo and he couldn't crow very well. I think its because he is little

I have one rooster with 1 hen in the same house then right next to it theres 3. he is almost 25 weeks but he isn't aggressive at all and doesn't peck at his little friend. I will go check on all of them at night and the hen sleeps on the floor and the roo sleeps next to her with his head around...

my EE "hen" started crowing at 12 weeks! it didn't sound very much like a rooster though. more like a screech from a hawk

Im not sure im not very educated on merek's. Just lost my favorite RIR last night to it. I put the sick one in the basement by her self or in your case move the healthy ones and keep the sick ones a little scattered about cause if only ONE has mereks and the other don't and have something like...

Alright so out of a flock of 6 chickens (RIRs and Leghorn stayed in a big coop, EEs live in an "apartment") the "sickly" RIR was put down last night because of most likely merek's. Paralyzed, tumor, not pooping but eating but not very much. I found her in the classic merek's position-one leg in...

Hi I am a proud mama to 2 RIR hens 1 White Leghorn hen 1 EE hen and then a EE roo. I lost 2 leghorns as chicks-one drowned and other got very sick. I lost a RIR last night to merek's and last but not least a lost a EE hen cause one of the RIR pecked her... and you can probably figured out the...