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  1. AdiosCowboy

    Sending my baby to a new home.

    I had a small flock of three chickens for almost three years. At the end of June, I lost one of my girls to a still unknown respiratory problems. The other hens were a bit thrown by this loss, but adapted (probably better than I did). Suddenly last Thursday I lost one of my other girls to egg...
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    Chicken throwing up, bearing down

    Almost a week ago, I took my 3 y/o hen to the vet after pulling an empty, deflated egg from her vet. The vet said she was acting healthy and there was no egg shell left inside her, but gave me some calcium powder and antibiotic in case of egg yolk peritonitis. Everything has been fine, but...
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    My Hen Hates Me

    One day a couple of weeks ago, out of nowhere, one of my hens bit my hand while I was feeding them sunflowers seeds out of it. Since then she has gotten worse, often attacking my ankles, the backs of my knees, my hand when she can reach it, and even my heel as I'm walking out of the chicken run...
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    Deflated egg pulled from chicken

    One of my chickens has been hunkering down like she's trying to poop or lay an egg ever since this afternoon. She's also been less enthusiastic about food. This evening when I was puting the chickens in the coop, I saw a clear fluid dripping out of her and what looked like some poop sticking out...
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    Do chickens mourn?

    This might be a weird question. I have had three chickens for almost three years until two days ago when one of my girls died suddenly (necropsy results pending). I've been keeping an extra close eye on the remaining two looking for symptoms and one has been acting a little odd, but not similar...
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    Broken eggs

    Over half of the eggs that my 2-year-old Cochin has laid in the past couple of months have an incredibly thin shell on one tip that usually ends up broken or cracked before I can even get it out of the nesting box. I haven't had this problem with my other chickens and I have been giving them...
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    Wheezing chicken, differential diagnosis

    I have a chicken that has been losing weight for almost a month now; she is eating, but not as much as my other two and lost weight gradually. Yesterday she began wheezing although otherwise acting completely normal. I took her to a vet this morning and she said it was probably worms in her...
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    Hen getting pecked bald

    I have had three hens for two and a half years now. They get along fine and have plenty of room; in short, I have never had a problem from them. About two months ago, however, a feral/stray rooster started coming around my yard and preening for the hens. It didn't cause any trouble immediately...
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    Hen getting picked on

    I have had three hens for two and a half years now. They get along fine and have plenty of room; in short, I have never had a problem from them. About two months ago, however, a feral/stray rooster started coming around my yard and preening for the hens. It didn't cause any trouble immediately...
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    An unusual pest

    For the past few days I've been having an errant rooster (from where? who knows? I can hear three roosters around my neighborhood, but this is the first I've seen) hop the fence into my backyard and preen and crow outside my girls' enclosure. It is completely covered with the fence going about a...
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    Mysterious fluid

    When I went out to collect eggs today, I found a puddle of clear, green-tinted liquid in one of the boxes. None of the chickens is acting any differently and there wasn't any blood or yolk in the puddle. Chickens don't pee, so I don't know what it could be. Does anyone have an idea what that's...
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    Chicken Bath?

    I'm not entirely sure where to post this, but I've read a few posts here where people mentioned giving their chickens a bath. My question is- is there a trick to it? When or why do you bathe your chickens? Thank you for any help.
  13. AdiosCowboy

    Rate of laying slowing

    I have a Standard Cochin, an Ameraucana, and a Wyandotte who all started laying last month and have all been averaging 6 eggs a week. This was somewhat unexpected as I had read that Cochins and Ameraucanas were not that prolific as egg layers. But now those two are missing more days than usual...
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    Eggbound or just a late bloomer?

    Of my three almost 6-month-old chickens, two have started laying and one hasn't. She isn't swollen; her breathing, appetite, activity level, and feces are all normal. Today though, she sat in one of the nesting boxes and clucked up quite a racket, but didn't produce anything. Is it normal for...
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    West Nile in area. Prevention/symptoms/treatment?

    I just found out tonight about several occurences of West Nile Virus in my area (Riverside, CA) affecting both humans and the local crows. Any information about dealing with an outbreak with chickens would be much appreciated. Right now I have a mosquito net (non-medicated, I don't know what it...
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    1 m/o Cochin w/ swollen belly

    I have a 1 m/o Cochin chick who has a rather swollen belly and some diarrhea, but no other signs of ill health. She went to the vet a week ago which was when it was first noticed but there were no parasites in her stool and I can't figure what could be causing this. Any ideas/suggestions?
  17. AdiosCowboy

    New chick has runny stoollack of energy

    I am new to chickens and bought a 1 week old Ameraucana just today. She seemed fine in the store and on the way home, and the other chick I bought her with is still fine. However, since putting them in the brooder the Amer. chick hasn't been as active as the other two chicks, presents almost...
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