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    One hen is doing the weirdest thing... Help?

    Goldenrod is a young ameraucana hen and she's been in the exact same place for days. I wouldn't really be so worried but she barely moves AT ALL, and she usually hates being touched. But I could stroke her all over and and she barely twitches. She doesn't seem to eat or drink at all unless I...
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    Sorry this is gross, poop question?

    HI again, our chickens that we have in a run, (because they are young and unfortunately all roosters) have really gross droppings. It is super runny and makes a (sorry) really disturbing sound when the poop. Any ideas? It has been like this for a long time.
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    Seriously Important Questions About Scaly Leg!

    Okay, (sorry this may be a long post:) I want to get a bantam rooster so I can start my hatch. He has scaly leg, so I need to research scaly leg first. My friend says that if you treat it every week it will not spread. Is this true??? If the rooster jumps my hens they will not get it if I treat...
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    Racoon!

    A quick story. We were in the living room and I hear the chickens in real distress. I look and cry "A racoon! It's eating the chickens!" we ran out and really scared the coon out of it's fur. I left poor Sunspot and ran dragging it's feet. Sunspot is still alive and happy. But you should have...
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    Are there any differences between hatching standards and bantams? Help please!!!!!

    We got two sebright bantam hens and they have been bred with an ameraucana austrolorp rooster. I this an okay breed? Will the chicks be okay? They will be bantam sized since they hatched from a bantam sized egg right? Also, one more question. Is hatching bantam eggs different then hatching...
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    wanted: (a lot!) seramas

    I know this isn't really the right place to post this but... I'm looking for Seramas in Canada. Preferably a trio. I would like inexpensive ones. They are so pretty and the perfect bird but it is soooooo hard to find them! Chicks or young pullets and a 'rooster in training' are preferred. But if...
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    My chicken has something weird with her leg

    One of our younger chickens has a talon in its right ankle and a feather growing in the left! So odd... Why does it have creepy feet? It's cool but sooo weird. Any ideas on why?????
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    Chicks with droopy feathers and dying

    We lost one of our older hens today (3 years old). She was laying on the side in the coup and was unable to stand up. We have 40+ chicks that are about two months old. We have about a dozen that have really droopy wings and some are unable to stand. One chick died. The run is quite muddy and...
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    OH PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Chicks with droopy wings and dying- moved to Emergency/Disease/Illness

    sorry... moved post to Emergency/Disease
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    Unhappy Chick, Help PLEASE!!!!

    Our chick has a deformed joint in its leg and it goes outwards a bit instead of forwards. Today it was trying really hard to walk with one leg and cheeping its poor head off. It fell into the waterer, and since it can't stand up it gets trampled a lot by the other chicks. [except our little...
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    chick with large abnormal growth

    We have a three week old chick that seems to have developed a large abnormal growth over night. The bulge is bigger than the bird's head and on its neck. The lump is both solid and squishy. It feels like there is bone inside the bulge. The chick has looked and acted normal until last night when...
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    big surprise

    We are new to BYC and just had a great success story. One of our white hens, Cherry, disappeared three weeks ago and we told the children she was dead but she returned with 7 chicks on Saturday. Nice organic experience! We have had chickens for one year now and lots of adventures but this has...
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