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    Broody hen adopting chicks: ARE THEY OK?

    UPDATE: one more was out in the cold, so we "fired" her. ...but wouldn't you know it? She became CONVINCED that the last chick was _her_ baby and was FREAKING OUT when we tried to remove her from that last baby chick. Our other broody (a barred rock who has been broody for 3 weeks or so) was...
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    Impacted crop on 2-day-old silkie?

    One of our chicks- a 2-day old silkie is periodically opening & closing its mouth (as tho gasping for air) and when I just held her, I could see chick feed in her mouth. I'm wondering if she has an impacted crop... They are on pine shavings under a broody mama hen (yay! it worked!). I've heard...
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    Broody hen adopting chicks: ARE THEY OK?

    I have another broody hen- wondering if I should try her tomorrow night.
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    Broody hen adopting chicks: ARE THEY OK?

    We introduced 4 day-old baby chicks to our 3-weeks-broody hen last night without a hitch. They just crawled right under her and she didn't peck them or anything. This morning I went out there and the silkie was huddled outside of the nest on the far side of the brooder like she had been...
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    Quote: lol!
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    Quote: It really is "UP & DIED", too, isn't it? That phrase never quite made sense to me until I saw this...
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    Thank you everyone! I never would have figured that out on my own. BYC is such a great resource when I most need it!
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    Quote: Was this color new today? I have read that purple comb/wattles indicates heart and circulatory problems. I have a young Rosecomb cockerel who has gradually gone purple. I am not sure what to do with him, he is a doll. This was a new color for her. She was a broody hen that had...
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    Quote: This is what I was thinking. It could also have been fluid in the body cavity. Was this particular girl very fat? Not really- as a Buff Orpington, she's a bigger bird, but she wasn't really fat. In fact, I was noticing as she was all splayed-out that she's actually not as "big" as I...
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    hen did a backflip & died...

    I'm more vexed than anything. Our 2-y-o Buff Orpington chicken was sitting happily- had been acting normally all day-- then suddenly craned it's neck & gagged like it was choking. It tried to feel it's crop or neck to see if there was anything lodged--- I didn't feel anything out of the norm...
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    Please help! Does Grass+Chickens=Wasteland????

    Wish I could offer some good advice-- our grass has steadily receded since we got chickens-- between bustbaths & scratching & poop... the edges are bald, dusty patches with holes. I've recently started limitting their time on the grass or considering more controlled foraging-- they don't hang...
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    2 month old with crooked beak, Pics Added

    We just noticed a week-old chick with a crossbeak as well. What is this that you applied? Did it help?
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    Introducing chicks to broody hen

    So we just got some day-old chicks to slip under our broody Buff Orpington for the FIRST TIME. She'd been sitting on eggs for 21 days, so we figured it was time. After reading some threads on here, it sounded like we could introduce them while it was still light (so we could see) instead of...
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    Botched Crop Surgery? HELP!!

    I should mention that this has been our source for treatment: http://fowlfacts.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=afflictiondiseaseff&action=display&thread=1188
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    Botched Crop Surgery? HELP!!

    This is me 2nd time doing the crop surgery on a bird and I'm so worried I did something wrong- I don't want to put a bird in danger due to my own squeamishness, yet I don't want to put her through "too much" all at once. Ok- from the beginning: Our Barred Rock is about 1.5yrs old-- our best...
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