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    Dying brahma chick; need help diagnosing what's wrong

    Update: I've removed her from the enclosure and put her in an open shoe box filled with sawdust. She's still alive, but will be leaving very soon. My other chicks seem perfectly healthy, no lethargy or loss of appetite, no odd behaviour. The enclosure has been completely cleaned from top to...
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    Dying brahma chick; need help diagnosing what's wrong

    So I just got four new chicks a little under a week ago, and I'm housing them in a large plastic bin with sawdust bedding and a heat lamp. I don't know exactly how old they are, but they're just starting to get their first adult quills. The whole lot of them had a mild case of pasty butt, which...
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    1 week old baby chick with swollen abdomen

    I have a chick that appears to have this problem as well. I have a very young Brahma who's just starting to get her adult quills, and yesterday I noticed she had a swollen abdomen like you're describing, and she was just as active as the other chicks. This morning, however, she was extremely...
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    Help keeping my chickens in one place

    I love my free range chickens, but my wife loves her gardens, so we've come to the agreement to split our acre long yard down the middle, with my birds out back an her flowers closer to the house. Problem is, my hens are strong flyers, and can easily jump the five foot wooden fence dividing the...
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    Arthritis in the foot?

    Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware you could actually give a chicken aspirin. I've been giving her warm baths in olive oil and feeding her carrots, which I read somewhere was supposed to be helpful
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    Arthritis in the foot?

    I have had my Rhode Island Red, Tiny, for at least 5 years. I know she's nearing the end of her life because she's outlived all her sisters by at least a year, and I want to know if there is anything I can do to soothe her arthritic feet. She's cage free, sharing about half an acre of yards...
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