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  1. ocpoolguy

    Can chickens eat chocolate?

    Glad I decided to check in before giving my chickens left over chocolate chip pancakes. Thanks for the info!
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    Adding Chicks

    the coop is about 4X10 Its starting to get dark now and one of the Adult hens went to her normal top roost and the other hasn't entered to coop yet. All the chicks are under Mamma I think all is good
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    Adding Chicks

    SO! We purchased five baby chicks 2 turned out to be Roos. 3 Chicks grew up and started giving us eggs. We wanted more hens. One of our girls went broody. We went to Trader Joes and purchased a dozen fertile eggs from the refrigerator section let then sit on the counter overnight then slipped...
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    Rooster?

    Rooster’s We got five baby chicks in January or February I think we may have two roosters. What do you think. The largest one is starting to caca doodle do every morning for the last few days. It’s not super loud but getting louder with time. He-she started this a few weeks ago and it wasn’t...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter laod an egg today. the other girls have let him back into the flock. back to buisness as usual.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter is prety much back to normal. not laying eggs but walking-eating and drinking. the other girls arn't messing with him much.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Another shot of the hawk after makeing a circle around the yard.. Some crows came by and chased the hawk away after I tried.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    So I go to check on him one more time before heading out to get some work done. he seems fine actually having with the other girls. on my way back into the house I see I think HAWK on the antenna. ita about the size of my eastereggers or bit smaller. Smaller than Walter for sure.. the Hawk has...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Just took this pic of him.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter is doing much better. After thoughts of the possibility of him being broody I have been trying to make him get up and walk around. Over this weekend I needed to go out of town and the wife and daughter had all day softball tournament. So she just put Walter in the back yard not the run...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Came home for lunch and found Walter sitting by the door to the run like he wants in there. They usualy want out on the run to feed on the grass. He dosn't want to get up.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Thank You. keeping Walter on the grass for now. Away from the others they can see each other but not get togher due to hardware cloth inclosed run.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    ...work on the computer. Hens start squawking like they’re getting attacked. Sure enough one of the other hens an Easter egger is kicking Walters’s *** as he just sits there and takes it. He has always been the DOM one of the three hens. Crap… just put him back out in the grass. More chicken...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Yes Walter is a hen. I just call her him. Started as a family joke but she is Him. His last egg was the day before I found him on the floor of the coop and not willing to get up. My son told me the evening before this he was sitting in the run and wouldn't get up and eat some meal worms he had...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter Walter Walter….. Ok so I am starting to think and hope broody may be the case. last night I again put him in the unused nesting box in the coop. This morning the other hens came out for food but he just sat there. I pick him up and kinda forced him to need to stand on the concrete patio...
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Bump!!! Wife thinks she may be broody? Iwill do some reading on this. Will broody hens not get up even if you pick them up and set them in the back yard grass? Walter is one yrar old and has been laying about six months.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Well I couldn't feel any thing I think feels like an egg in the vent. from the outside of belly I was feeling for anything such as an egg. didn't feel any thing there. Walter is right at 1 year. I am going to check with the local feed store now.
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    Chicken won’t get up. Help if you can.

    Walter is the same today. going to check his vent. Nervous about this I assume if there is an egg stuck in there I will feel it. he did drink some gatoraid last night.
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