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    Please help - trembling chicken

    I have a rooster who is one year old he’s a Barnum belgium d’uccle and I love him so much. I’ve noticed more so recently that he tends to have a tremble when he stands I’m not sure if it’s because he’s watching out or something but it’s sort of in his upper legs and tail feathers. He is healthy...
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    Scaly mites

    Hi everyone, I was hoping I could get some real like experiences to help calm my anxiety. I have a lovely bantam rooster with extreme feathers on his feet. I noticed recently a lot of standing on one leg, tremors in his legs leading to a slight tremor in his tail. I looked at his feet and...
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    Broody Hen - feathers lost

    she isnt pulling them out shes just dropping thm and they seem to be all over her body but new growth is already coming in.
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    Broody Hen - feathers lost

    Hi everyone, this is my first time with Bantum Belgium Duccles - my hen goes broody so often which I read is normal with this breed. The last two times she was broody she went through a bit of a moult afterwards which again I thought was ok since we were changing seasons. She went broody AGAIN...
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    Odd behaviour please assist

    Thanks everyone - she's on premium scratch mix which has shells in it mixed with laying pellets as well. The treats they get are limited but normally consist of meal worms, tomatoes, blueberries, cucumber. My rooster got impacted crop as he was stress eating sand while we were away, we had...
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    Odd behaviour please assist

    Hi everyone, First time chicken owner - I have bantum duccles. My hen is 9 months old now and I live in Australia so it’s approaching the 36 degree days (very dry heat). She has been losing a lot of feathers it’s like a pillow fight every time I open the coop but she isn’t balding there...
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    Help! Chicken making weird noises

    Hi, i had a look online and thats exactly where its coming from. Both the lower and the higher ones. It doesnt happen all the time mainly just in the mornings that I notice and she is acting completly normal. She is eating and drinking, grooming, digging, having dirt baths and no other...
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    Help! Chicken making weird noises

    Hi, every time I try to film it, it stops.... yesterday I didnt hear it but i heard it again this morning. its weird because I it almost travels through her body, i hear it more on her leg as if she was trying to pass gas... sometimes i hear it higher up but its always on the side. Its not...
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    Help! Chicken making weird noises

    Hi everyone, I would appreciate any advice my mind is going crazy. My hen just started laying this week she’s a bantum duccle, about 24 weeks old. Just this morning I realised that she was making a gurgling/crackling sound. It sounds like when a human is hungry and your tummy rumbles. It’s...
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    Please help chicken not eating hard food

    okay thanks but definitely not that, the inside of her beak looks normal
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    Please help chicken not eating hard food

    Okay will do. And yes looks normal to me, is there anything in particular I need to look out for?
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    Please help chicken not eating hard food

    Hi thanks for replying. I have added photos to the threat now
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    Please help chicken not eating hard food

    She’s my beauty!
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    Please help chicken not eating hard food

    Hi everyone, My hen is about 14 weeks old. I have been noticing she has watery poops for a few days now but it has been hot where I live and this has happened before from that. Poop looks relatively normal tho, no blood or worms. Just sometimes watery. Anyway I was sitting with her cause I...
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    Rooster and Hen - a match in heaven

    thank you, hes actually already crowing - has been for about 3 weeks ha. Does this mean his behviour now will stay the same or will it continue to change?
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