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    Cream Legbar rooster questons

    How do you handle your roosters to be less aggressive? We never have luck but we also like to handle our chickens too. What's your tricks
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    Newborn chick complications

    We have 10 chicks that hatch fine and then we have this one unfortunately the humidity dropped. One of the eggs past this morning we gave it a little assistance. Unfortunately the egg sac didn't get absorbed and then bursted. It's fighting for it's life. It's been given vitamin water and today...
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    Is it to late to move my broody chicken? What do I do?

    Love your story. So it sounds like I may be stressing for nothing. Fingers crossed
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    Broody will hatch eggs soon...too late to move?

    Did your chickens end up hatching okay after you did this?
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    Is it to late to move my broody chicken? What do I do?

    I was given six fertilized eggs that I put under a Broody chicken. She's been very good about sitting on them and keeping them warm It's day 15 and I really not sure what's the best direction to go right now. I read that moving her and the eggs is not a great idea since she graifs to the nest...
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    Hen has been lethargic for the past 4-5 days I've run through everything and no other symptoms

    Poor baby. I have used Yogurt as a probiotic just be careful with coconut oil it's pretty strong and will cause that laxative effective. Even humans only need a 1/4 tsp so an chicken you can imagine is a tiny bit. One thing that has helped me with deworming my chickens has been DE (Diatomaceous...
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    Comb on chicken is hanging over and has some white on it in areas

    I took my hen yesterday and separated her from the flock. She appeared low energy, some of her feathers are missing but she is molting but I treated her too with DE in case it was mites as most the chickens have finished their molt now and all the same age. I think she may have been peaked on...
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    3 dead chicks in 8 hours. What am I doing wrong?!?

    Isolate that baby chick. Could be something spreading and play it safe.
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    What's wrong with my chicken?

    Thank you for your reply. Surprisingly she's doing much better and I swear she was on her last leg when I was taking care of her initially. I just took some Epsom salt water and soaked her bun in it for a few days in a row and gave her some probiotic basically some plain yogurt and she ate that...
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    What's wrong with my chicken?

    My hen is acting ill. She is losing her feathers and butt seems swollen and red. I soaked her in Epson salt and she had some minor paste I found when cleaning. I will secure her from the other chickens tomorrow morning. I haven't seen her being picked on but she might be. Either way I'll isolate...
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    Chickens are eating crab grass killer

    They survived and all was ok. I did water extra on the grass just to dillute the fertilizer faster. Thank you for all your help.
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    Chickens are eating crab grass killer

    Thank you so much! I will pay whatever fee I have too. Right now they all seem to be doing okay and getting ready for the night.
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    Chickens are eating crab grass killer

    Our Gardner came and irrigated the lawn and spread crab grass killer on the lawn. I have my chickens separated to the lawn area but one of my grand kids left the gate open and this morning I found them all munching down on the pellets. I am so upset for many reasons as I should of thought this...
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