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    Sick hen - overnight

    Hello everyone We have 6 hens. The youngest one has gotten sick suddenly. Last evening I noticed that she didn't come forward at feeding time, just sat at the back of the coop. This morning she is sitting there, head drooping and her bottom eyelid is up. I am not sure what to do....
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    Adding two new chickens

    Good morning everyone from South Africa. We have had 4 chickens since June 2008. They are wonderful and have done us well with eggs and comanionship. They have a large coop and free range daily for about and hour. We have dogs that would like to eat them so we cannot leave them out all the...
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    Sore red leg...broody hen

    My hen has been sitting on eggs for about 2 weeks (we have no rooster so take the eggs in the evening) but today she wanted out of the coop. She could barely walk on her one leg and on examining it I saw it is read and swollen in places. I have no farm vets around her as we are urbanites...I...
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    Really mean chickens

    :(We have had to introduce a new hen to our coup. We had 4 then we gave the one very broody one back and 2 days later got a replacement. Said replacement is having a hard time...my other three ladies are being really mean and won't let her move from the corner. Everytime she does they peck her...
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    "Coughing" chicken

    I can only describe it as "coughing" but not sure that's right to describe her. She hasn't laid an egg it seems for two days and is pretty much keeping to a corner of the coup every now and again making this little coughing sound. When we let her and the others out she scratches around and...
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    One of my girls is sick

    Hi I am a newbie here and to owning chickens. We got 4 layers last week from a friend. They have been doing well and we are feeding them as natural a diet as possible. They cannot free range as we have dogs but we do let them out to wander each day for a period. Today one of them didn't want...
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