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    Hen with yucky bottom

    One of my hen's bottoms is somewhat yucky, some blood and goopy. Every once in a while she yips and does a tail dip. Is this being egg bound? My hens are just beginning to give one or two eggs a day (five months old) and the days are getting shorter and colder here in Maine so I assume...
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    salmonella risks?

    How do we know if our chickens carry salmonella. Mine are all healthy and active, but the press information say that the chickens carry the salmonella disease. Is there an easy way to check this out with our small flock?
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    polish chick with floppy neck

    I have 3 golden polish 7 weeks old. two nights ago one started falling off its perch, after dangling its neck. Now cannot perch. Symptoms include head goes down under body, sometimes it flips over, then lays there quietly with head on the ground. It will get up and move around some and then...
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    missing feathers/sore spots on 18 day old chicks

    Thanks for some things to check out. They are certainly the most stressed of the flock and lowest on the totem pole. I will research the lice and mite issue. I'm trying to be organic in my approach to treating them. Everything else that you mentioned such as changes in the flock, etc. has...
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    missing feathers/sore spots on 18 day old chicks

    I have 3 golden polish in a mixed group of 18 day old chicks. They all have bare/sore spots on their back/spine area. I have segregated them from the other more aggressive chicks that have started pecking them. They have been somewhat fragile since I received them (lost one right away after...
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