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    Sick chicken?

    Thanks for the help everyone, sadly she passed away last night.
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    Sick chicken?

    Okay thanks and no new birds, don't think we ever dewormed them but we did give them pumkin seeds a few months ago. Those naturally deworm right?
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    Sick chicken?

    I brought her down and allowed her to walk around for a while, she walked a little and pecked at a few things but went back inside the coop. I locked up the girls and went inside, when I came back out a few hours later to lock them up for the night she was in the same place I saw her last and...
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    Sick chicken?

    There is no bloating, I would also just like to add that she is drinking some water from time to time if that helps.
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    Sick chicken?

    She is just under 2 years I Have has her for just under 2 years ( since she was a chick) About about a year and a half ago I lost a chicken to sour crop, my leghorn, Maggie, never met her. She is not laying any eggs and hasn't for a good month No discharge around the eyes, mouth, or nose. No odd...
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    Sick chicken?

    Hi, I have a female leghorn chicken. She is normally running around and trying to get outside but today I noticed she wasn't doing any of that. She just stays up in the roosting area and just stands there. She is very slow and has a dark limp comb. I think its poop that is covering her vent...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    3 eggs from 5 hens. Pretty good
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    How much should they eat?

    I live in chicago and yes they free range for roughly a half hour to an hours a day, i just want to make sure i wasn't starving them or any thing thanks.
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    How much should they eat?

    I have 5 chickens to full grown hens and 3 bantams about what is the average amount of food should they be eating in a day??????
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    in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

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    RANDOM STUFF!

    supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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    What is the strangest thing your chickens ate? Mine just ate crawfish Monica and aligator tail

    My chicken Maggie swallowed a mouse whole. I was pretty gross, but cool. And my girls gorged down a fried chicken leg.
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    Why did you get into chickens?

    I wanted chickens because they are different and rarely seen in Chicago, I was looking though a kids magazine and saw "grow a chicken" right then and there my obsession of chickens started. My father was all for it, but my mother was not. After about a good year of asking and pleading. My dad...
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    Winter Fun Time!!!!!!!!!

    I am starting to prepare for the winter in Chicago and am looking for some fun, creative, cooky and goofy ways to keep my chickens entertained threw this winter. Any ideas???????????????
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