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    New Chickens and NO Aggression (?!)

    I am babysitting 6 of my friends chickens for a few months while she deals with a fox situation. They are all very healthy, well-kept birds, no parasites, as are my 4. They were all treated with "Flock Protect" and the coop was cleaned out, new sand, shavings and hay and dusted with DE prior to...
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    Weak Egg History now Suddenly Change in Behavior

    I've been noticing weak and spotted/deformed eggs in the nesting box for a couple of weeks. I have 4 chickens: An Americauna who lays BIG green healthy eggs, a Brahma who lays little round eggs and an Australorp and Orpington who lay the same kind of normal brown eggs. I have been getting very...
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    Impacted Crop-Need Advice

    My 11 month old Brahma has a badly impacted crop. I have her in the house and am frequently massaging it in hopes of breaking it up. She has an awful smell coming from her nose and especially when I am working the mass. My question is, about a half an hour or so after a massage, she poops a big...
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    Heartfelt Empathy for the Forum

    I came here tonight to get some advice on my almost 1 year old Brahma with an impacted crop. I am new at this, have just the 4 and they are going to be 1 on April 9th. She got sick so fast and so hard and this is the second time I've been faced with such fear. This time I think I'm facing a...
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    Looking at 1st First Aid Situation-need Proactive Advice

    My 9 month old Buff Orp didn't eat today. I brought out their afternoon snack (I've been spoiling them to help them through the winter, I figure pilates in the spring and we can go from there). Today's snack was cut up strawberries, brocolli & bread. Yesterday it was cracked corn, sunflower...
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    Camping Out in the Run

    Hello, I have a Garden Coop (www.thegardencoop.com) chicken coop for my 4 hens. This will be their first winter; we live in Maine. The coop is a little bit in the woods but we have a huge field so on the field side of the coop run I put a 6 x 8 green tarp on 2 1/2 sides of it. (Basically the...
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    roo behavior?

    Hello, When I get home from work I let my 4 almost-seven-week old pullets out of their run to do some free-ranging (aka, follow me around the yard). Yesterday, when it was time for them to have dinner and go to bed I led the way back to the coop and 3 out of 4 followed me. My Buff Orp got left...
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    Hello from Maine!

    Hello everyone! I joined so I could post a question about one of my pullets but it suggested I do an intro first I am a new chicken Momma to 4 girls who are now almost 7 weeks old. I got them as day-olds. Minnie Mae the Australorp, Honey White the Buff Orp, Anhyzer the Brahma, & Tilda...
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