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    Fly larvae on feathers of injured rooster

    Hi! I have a rooster that I was trying to put in with some other chickens and my bigger rooster picked on him and injured him. The injury is small and is not infected. I saw 1 tiny maggot and I removed that and poured peroxide in it. As I was checking for other injuries I noticed fly larvae all...
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    Chick attached to egg still! Help please, PIC!

    Hi everyone, this chick just hatched out in the last hour but is still attached to the egg. Do I need to do anything at all? And also what is going on here and why is this happening. O_o Thank you! -Amy
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    2 chicks hatched, hen moved off other eggs?!! What?

    Hi guys! I have chicks hatching under a hen, bantams actually. They are in a coop that has only 3 sides closed in, the front is open with chicken wire but we have two Styrofoam boards with fabric around them that we put on the front of coop. We are putting those on now but it's getting down in...
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    Could a dog get a chicken through this?

    Hi all! Anyone know if a large dog, size of a hound could get a chicken through 4x2 welded wire? Just found my favorite chicken dead up against the wire. Feathers missing but no body parts or meat, not even skin! I'm at a loss for words but I'm trying to figure out if this could have been my...
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    Day 22 and NOTHING! Chick out but problems?

    Hi guys, We had to take some eggs away from a broody hen who would sit on them and then kick them out. These were developing eggs. So we put them in an incubator and candled every 5 days or so to make sure they were developing and to try and figure out what day they were on. This is day 22 that...
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    Why does my hen keep pushing her eggs away?

    So I have a hen who is broody & she is pushing her DEVELOPING eggs away. She was sitting on them & things were going great. I went out there yesterday and she had pushed two away from her. The day before she pushed 1 away, granted I had candled that one so I thought it was b/c I had touched it...
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    To cull or not to cull?

    Hi all, So we have 2 roosters, Pop-tart (some type of game mix) and Titan (Rhode island red). Well about a month or so ago we finally added a run onto our coop & not too long after we noticed that Pop-tart was running Titan all over & trying to, I don't know, claim territory over the run area I...
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    Nest maintenance for my setting hen.

    Hi guys! I have a setting hen & I noticed today that there are a few broken eggs where she is sitting. I think they are getting broke b/c they are dropping new eggs on top of those already there and it's cracking the others. I also noticed a few flies on the nest today. My question is should I...
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    Will hens break eggs of different color on purpose?

    Hi all, I have 5 brown egg laying hens & 2 white egg laying hens and for over a week now I have had 0 white eggs & cannot seem to find any remnants of white eggs in the coop. Could my brown egg laying hens be breaking the white eggs b/c of the different color? NOTE: The white egg layers are not...
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    My 'Ruby' not doing well (not suffering anymore)

    So my 8 month old hen Ruby is not doing so well. I had posted some info on her in another forum: chicken behaviors & egg laying b/c she was acting weird. Anywho, I thought I should post in sickness b/c that is really what she seems to be now. Ruby seems fine one day & down the next. She isn't...
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    Is this normal chicken behavior? I think she's sick!

    Is it normal for a hen to stand & sleep?? During the day? Thanks!
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    Frost bite concerns?

    I've been seeing so much about frostbite and am wondering if I should be concerned with my chickens getting frost bite if their water is freezing overnight? I am going to get a indoor thermometer today but even with that I don't know how cold it has to be in there for them to get frost bite. I...
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    Any hatcheries that will let you order less than 10?

    Hey guys! Any good hatcheries out there that will let you order less than 10? Thank you!
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    Sad that my chickens don't really like to be touched.

    Hi, So I guess I'm going to be venting some frustration here. Basically in reading so many stories on here about other people's chickens being friendly, wanting to be held and loving attention--I find myself sad b/c ours aren't like that. We have 2 breeds as of now: Rhode Island Reds & Partridge...
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    Have 2 roosters; 1 losing weight since put in same coop

    Hey guys! I have 2 roosters & one seems to have lost some weight since putting them & all the hens in the same coop a little over a month ago. One is a Game & the other is a rhode island red. There was a little bit of fighting between them when we 1st put them together; especially when the RIR...
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    Got our very 1st eggs this week!!

    Hello everyone! Just wanted to share that we received our 1st eggs this week from our RIR & then had our 1st egg dropped yesterday by our other hens! We are super excited!!
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    My dog just pulled out roosters tail feathers & now there is blood!!!

    Hi, my dog pulled or bit out the long feathers of my 3 month old rooster's tail & now there is blood. His bottom is still there & appears to have no damage but where the feathers are broken there is blood coming out! Will he be ok??? He went right back to eating after I inspected him & is...
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    New mom from Georgia

    Hi everyone! I'm a new chicken mom, well my husband is too, as of April of this year! We have 1 broiler (who will not be food but rather a pet) named "Lolley", 3 Mahogany Rhode Island Reds: "Titan (rooster), "Lucy" & "Ruby", who are almost 4 months old & 3 Partridge Plymouth Rocks: "Sunshine"...
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    Help! Lice? Mites?

    Hi guys! I'm new to chicken keeping and I have 3 Partridge Plymouth Rocks that have these creepy crawly things around their vents & I've been researching & can't figure out what they are!! I have also checked their heads, necks & under their wings but I ONLY see these critters around their...
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