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    Unsure of how to proceed.

    Thanks for all the replies, still unsure of what I can do, I called animal control, and they said they won't do anything about chickens. It's a pretty rural and backwards area. The chickens are still coming over and eating our feed but continue to go back to their barn to roost at night. It's...
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    Unsure of how to proceed.

    Okay, story time. I have 10 hens and a rooster, 7 hens are original to my flock going on 3 years, 3 hens were hatched out from one of the older ladies. All is good within our flock and we get plenty of eggs, our birds free range in the yard at all times. When we built our coop we made it big...
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    2 dead chickens

    Another dead this morning. A couple seem a little off, but not specific symptoms, just moving slow and not a lot of it. Saw one little pile of partial runny stools. Eggs have all been fine, been getting roughly 10 per day. Combs look all okay. I'll look for mites again when i go out, though I...
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    2 dead chickens

    It's possible they aren't broken, as this is my first experience with chickens dying. I'm just kind of at a loss as to what to do.
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    2 dead chickens

    Over the past week we've had 2 chickens die.First was one of our buffs, the only visual sign of death is a limp, broken neck. Same thing happens 3 days later with one of our white rocks. I'm absolutely sure that our coop is secure. I was wondering if our rooster possibly is being too aggressive...
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    Howdy

    Hi y'all. I'm new to BYC and to raising chickens. I got my first ladies 2 weeks ago and am already addicted to them. Been learning all I can for the last few months and this site has been one of the best I've found. TY already for all the wonderful information. I look forward to being part of...
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