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    feathers wont grow back

    I have a 5 year old barred rock who started losing feathers early summer but they won't grow back on her back, breast and around the wings. It doesn't appear to be a normal molt. Now she seems unbalanced. Never saw this before
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    below zero temps

    Thanks, I'll do that in the morning along with warm scrambled eggs. Hope these temps don't last long. Feel bad for the girls!
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    below zero temps

    Should I make that a warm mash?
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    below zero temps

    I've had chickens for 8 winters but have never had temps dropping this cold in my area. They are predicting -15 friday nite/sat morning. My girls (12) are in two coops, 2 feet off the ground with plenty of wood chip litter ( and poop!). The ventilation is good and they're dry and draft free...
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    Sick Chicken W/Pale Comb, Diarrhea, Heavy Weight Loss

    I have the same issue with a 10 month old sex link. I came in here looking for ideas. She seems ok, but has poopy butt, pale comb and very underweight. Do we think she needs worming? Could it be anything else?
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    mamma won't take chicks into coop

    I've raised baby chicks numerous times but this was the first time I've had mamma hatched chicks. Yesterday was the first day she brought them out-about a week old. I watched them all day; how she kept them together, called them to her when they encountered a barrier, stood off the other hens...
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    mamma won't take chicks into coop

    My new Buff mamma just brought her 6 chicks out for the first day and at night fall she won't go back into the coop. She's sitting under it with the chicks tucked beneath her. I'm afraid they won't be safe. Does she know what she's doing?
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    2 day old chick dying

    Well, its gone. I tried giving her some electrolytes but it was too late. she was fine at bed time but clearly distressed this morning. too bad, hate to see any suffer so maybe its better.
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    2 day old chick dying

    Just got my chicks yesterday. this morning one of them is clearly failing. what can I do?
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    can I use Pedialyte for my hen

    Well, I couldn't save her. after a 3rd warm bath I set her up in the bathroom with a heating pad for the night. this morning she seemed about the same but in the afternoon she suddenly lurched up and down and was gone. I did another probe last night while I had her in the water and I think I...
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    can I use Pedialyte for my hen

    Thanks for the quick reply. I tried her on some of the oyster shell I always make available but she wasn't interested in eating it. I crushed a Tums into some pedialylte and used a syringe to get a few millimeters down. She doesn't seem distressed-her comb is nice red, her eyes are clear but...
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    can I use Pedialyte for my hen

    My silver laced wyandotte appears to be egg bound. I've given her a sit in a warm bath and put her in a box in the dark closet and she has done a poo after that (runny and yellow) but no egg yet. My question is, I've read to give her calcium to quickly help that egg (if there is one in there)...
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    Who's in your flock

    3 Buff Orpington 2 Austrolorp 2 Isa Brown 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte 1 Barred Rock 1 Easter Egger
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    Paranoid and anxiety filled after hawk attack (I'm talking about ME!!)

    I think this hawk has had his eye on the girls. Because mine are full size birds I didnt think a hawk would try. They would normally fly off with their prey but he probably was surprised at her size and just killed and began to eat her. As I came around with the mower I probably scared the...
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    Paranoid and anxiety filled after hawk attack (I'm talking about ME!!)

    So sorry for her-hope she makes it. I try to treat this experience as a "farmer" would. They are stock animals that have a purpose, but you get to know them and can't help but treat them as pets too.
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