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    Chickens Having Breathing Problems Over Last Few Weeks, new symptoms, please help!

    Also the hen has open her eye but it is still kind of squinted. I have seen her drinking water, but it seems to take extra time for it to travel to her crop.
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    Chickens Having Breathing Problems Over Last Few Weeks, new symptoms, please help!

    I’m in Upstate New York. High temperatures range between 80 and 95. They do hold their wings out slightly. They have plenty of access to shade.
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    Chickens Having Breathing Problems Over Last Few Weeks, new symptoms, please help!

    I use mulch in the run and a mixture of pine shavings and compressed pine pellets in the coop. The chickens who are having problems barely go in the coop, and sleep in the run. They currently get Dumor 15% Grower Finisher. They have access to water in the coop, the run, and near their favorite...
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    Chickens Having Breathing Problems Over Last Few Weeks, new symptoms, please help!

    Sadly, a vet is not an option.
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    Hen, fast decline, lethargic

    Thank you for the suggestions. I've noticed that she appears fine for most of the day, but a times, gets sleepy and not her normal self. I know that sounds like she's being a normal chicken but during these period she's tired, which I don't think she's ever expressed before. Would any of the...
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    Hen, fast decline, lethargic

    She is 2 years old. They get Dumor 15% Grower Finisher, and mealworms, they get scratch also but I haven't given any in a while. I am in upstate New York. I have 8 vents and a window in the coop, which are all open, but they currently sleep in the run. I don't think they've ever gone without...
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    Hen, fast decline, lethargic

    I have a 2 year old New Hampshire hen, who this morning laid an egg, and did her egg song for about 20 minutes (10am). I just went out to check on them and she was laying down. I coaxed her up with a Japanese beetle. She then wasn't interested in a second, or any food. I brought her water. No...
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    Things you've learned while building your coop...

    4 inch PVC is better than 3 inch, despite the weight when full, since you can actually fit your hand in to clean it. A run door that has a bottom section and a top section that can be used separately or together is handy. Despite the teasing you will get from your friends/family, and outlet and...
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    First Flock!

    Welcome to BYC! And the wonderful world of chicken math.
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    Weird things only poultry people get.

    I can understand people who haven't been around chickens wondering that, but that's why google was invented.
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    Weird things only poultry people get.

    The number of people that go " wait, you don't need a rooster for the hens to lay eggs!?" is remarkable.
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    Weird things only poultry people get.

    Mine get called sweetheart so many times, its embarrassing.
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    Weird things only poultry people get.

    When I go out to take care of the chickens is ask them how they are doing. Every. Single. Day. They never answer incase you were wondering.
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    Chickens Having Breathing Problems Over Last Few Weeks, new symptoms, please help!

    I just went out again, the fat one was gaping this time, only for a few minutes though. I have now idea what is wrong. It seems like they've been preening a lot recently, also.
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    Chickens Having Breathing Problems Over Last Few Weeks, new symptoms, please help!

    I just went out to check on them and another hen(2yo New Hampshire) was pecking the ground, them extended her neck, opening her mouth really wide (gaping), then retracted her neck, shook her head, and continued pecking. She did this several process several times, and then stopped and continued...
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