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    PLEASE HELP! Wry neck in my chickens?

    Oh please help! We just started raising chickens last year and all of it went really well except for one Ameraucana hen who injured herself. This summer has not been good. Every couple of weeks we have been having a new hen show up with a wry neck. This is the 3rd one, and she's one of my...
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    Twisted neck, no other symptoms

    Help! One of my Ameraucana hens came out of the coop yesterday with her neck all twisted up. I'm seeing no other symptoms. No discharge, eating drinking and pooping okay. She is separated from all the other birds. I got some Vitamin B liquid yesterday and have been giving her that. I don't...
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    What is going on?

    So, I have several chickens who are having a watery discharge from their nose. It's not constant. Just occasional. Nothing else is going on. No swollen face, wheezing, coughing, still eating and drinking with great enthusiasm and showing a normal energy level. I first noticed this last week...
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    Need help fast!

    I'm sorry for the dramatic title. I live out in the boonies and there is an outage right now in our area with the internet. Had to come to town to access and post and research. I recently purchased two chickens at a swap. All seemed quite healthy. I noticed a couple of days ago that the...
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    We're roosters, aren't we?

    These are my two lovely Lemon Orpingtons. They are so sweet. I've been hoping that they would turn out to be pullets, but I'm thinking cockerels. What do you think?
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    Hen with chipped beak - need separated?

    My 8 year old discovered one of our hens had chipped the top of her beak. Looks like the tip is gone and half the top just kind of looks peeled off. She had a little bit of blood in her mouth, so I tried to clean her up and put her in a dog crate in the coop tonight. Does she need to stay...
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    HELP! Is this an impacted crop?

    I have a blue maran cockerel (pretty sure it's a cockerel) that's maybe 4 or 5 weeks old. I went to get him out this morning to put him in the dog crate we keep in our yard for the smaller chicks to be in. His chest looks like it's large and more over to one side. I felt it and it's hard. He...
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    Anhydrous Ammonia Injected into the fields - issue or not?

    I just found out that the person who leases the land our farm is on is having anhydrous ammonia injected into the corn fields around our house. The one field is fairly close to our chicken coop. The weather has been VERY hot here (well, VERY hot for Western PA :o) I have been allowing our...
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    What are they? New and clueless :o)

    We're new to chickens this year, so we don't have a clue when it comes to our first 3 my husband brought home (we're up to 20 now). He picked them up at a local farm and was told they were a mixed breed straight run. So, any ideas on breed and sex? They are just over 4 weeks old (we think).
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    What is your favorite thing about your coop?

    As a new (slightly obsessed) chicken owner, I'm working on designing just the right coop for my new feathered friends. We've already ordered a 10 x 16 shed from some Mennonite neighbors of ours and we'll be modifying it to turn it into our coop. I have seen so many wonderful designs! So, I'm...
  11. Hillywu

    New in PA

    Hi! Just wanted to introduce myself. My husband and I have talked for years about getting chickens and always found a reason to put it off. Two weeks ago he showed up with 3 chicks and I told him to head back to the farm and get 6 more! We now found our family the proud 9 chicks (with 10...
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