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    Battery cage hens not doing well! Help!

    We adopted 11 ex battery cage hens in November of last year. Needless to say, they were a mess: skinny, half feathered, and ravenous all the time. They improved quite a bit and have been doing quite well until the last couple months or so. They are all losing feathers again but I don't think...
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    Pigeon-toed duckling! Will they straighten out?

    Hi everybody-- I posted this question a couple of weeks ago but I'm getting more and more worried about Doris. She's a Pekin duckling, now about 5 weeks old and severely pigeon-toed. She steps on her own feet, has a lot of trouble walking and sits down most of the time. Last time I posted, a...
  3. MrsClucky

    Pekin duckling appears pigeon-toed! Is this normal?

    Doris is about three weeks old and her feet are both pointed in and overlap, making walking tricky for her. She steps on her own feet. She seems to sit an awful lot. She's in the house, in a big sheep trough with another duckling (a Buff who walks normally), hay for bedding, brooder lamp -...
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    do ducklings' wings go bald before they get their feathers?

    I have two two-week-old ducklings, a Pekin and a Buff. They both appear to be very healthy and active - good appetites, eyes clear, etc. The Pekin has lost about half of her down on her little wings and has sparse down on the back of her neck. The Buff has lost a tiny bit of down on her wings...
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    Help! Newly adopted ducks are gone!

    I adopted an 8-month-old drake a week ago and yesterday brought home three 7-week-old ducks. They seemed to bond immediately and were hanging out together. They didn't seem scared and there's plenty of food, a kiddie pool, huge pasture, etc. Late in the day, the little ones disappeared. We...
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    Mystery illness - possibly leukosis - need expertise!

    Hi everyone-- Just got back from the vet with Matilda the hen. His best guess is Leukosis which is invariably fatal. But from all my research, she has symptoms not usually associated with Leukosis. Here's what's going on - any and all thoughts or suggestions would be hugely appreciated! • Hen...
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    Hen died suddenly and mysteriously - why?

    I found one of my hens dead this morning with no signs of "fowl play." She was perfectly healthy yesterday - no sign of illness and she has no access to anything but what I feed her and the flock. She's completely intact, no blood on her and the others are fine. She was in a large enclosure...
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    Chicken lice in my HAIR? Eeewwwwww!!!

    This morning, I was finally able to catch and pick up Mr. Schmellman, a very unpredictable and occasionally violent rooster I'd like to "tame." After holding him under my arm for several minutes, I released him and went about my business. A few minutes later, I felt things crawling in my hair...
  9. MrsClucky

    DO HENS EVER CROW?????

    Recently adopted 7 young adult hens. 2 have started to crow. One looks like a rooster but the other does not. Do hens ever crow? Or am I stuck with 2 more roos? Oh dear oh dear...
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    Do hens raise their hackles/ruff when they spar?

    I just adopted 5 new hens (oh please, oh please). I was told they were 6-7 months old, Bantam mixes. They all LOOK like girls to me but one of them is sparring through the fence with another hen. She's acting very roosterish: her neck feathers are all puffed out, and she's flying at the other...
  11. MrsClucky

    Mystery blood on side of feeder

    This is the second time I've found blood on the side of the feeder or waterer. From the way it looks, it appears that a chicken with a bloody head? comb? ate from the feeder and left splotches on the side. All the hens and the rooster look fine - I can see no sign of injury (although I can't get...
  12. MrsClucky

    Aggressive rooster - little hen seems traumatized

    One of our young roosters has just recently starting crowing and mating with the hens. We have one hen who is older than the others and about half their size. She seems to be the one the rooster finds the most alluring. But whenever he approaches her, she runs for her life! And when he finally...
  13. MrsClucky

    The Crying Game II - unexpected rooster!

    When Mrs. Schmellman started to grow a suspiciously large comb and wattles, "she" was only six weeks old and young enough to neuter. Mr. Schmellman, the "nooster," is doing fine. Now, at the advanced age of three months (too old to neuter safely), it appears that ZsaZsa is not who she seemed...
  14. MrsClucky

    Three feeding questions

    Hi chicken friends-- I have five three-month-old chicks and one hen of unknown age (she's a rescue chicken who came all the way to Oregon from East L.A.!). They are "free range" in that they live in a 30x60' grassy area and are only locked in their coop at night. Now that they're outside and...
  15. MrsClucky

    6-week-old rooster's breathing sounds odd

    Mr. Schmellman was actually neutered on Monday. He's now a 'nooster.' Recovering beautifully - being kept inside until all better. Vet did not feel antibiotics were needed. Last night, I noticed his breathing sounded odd - a wet sort of clicking sound. He seems fine - energetic, eating well...
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