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    Help, please! Chicks dying suddenly

    Thank you for reading this post, and any suggestions/info ate greatly appreciated. In a 4x4 foot small trailer I have 5 two week old layer pullets, and 30 one week old meat birds. They have all been doing well, but the meaties had pretty grungy bottoms, no real pasty butt, but several...
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    Recurrent mites

    Good morning, and thanks for reading this thread, We have 15 hens of various breeds, and one rooster. Last March they started looking a little rough. At first we thought they were molting. Eventually some filled their feathers in, but a few had large patches of bare skin. Never any sign of...
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    flock looking rough

    We have eleven hens and one rooster in the main coop, and six 7-8 week olds in the grow out pen that is attached to the main run. My laying hens have mostly all molted this spring. I have one hen that most of the feathers across her back appear to be broken off about half way down the length...
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    Hen with stiff feet, and toes coming off! Please help!!

    This is my Blue Laced Red Wyandotte that had spent a lot of time broody this winter Now she is very light weight, and is having trouble walking. I am giving her fermented feed, with some scratch mixed in, and fresh greens, and fruit twice daily. She is eating well, and her bowels seem pretty...
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    do chickens sneeze?

    I came home tonight and let the chickens out for free range time. One of my EE's is making noise each time she exhales, and makes a delicate suppressed sneeze sound. She just started laying in the last week or so. She layed an egg today, and is out and about with her usual cohorts, acting...
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    one closed eye please help

    One of my pullets (near point of lay) did not go in the coop when the lead hen called for all to bed. I was working on the coop, as it was free range time. I counted heads and noticed one white plymouth rock was not on the roost. I thought she was in the run. While I was finishing up with...
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    new egg laying problem

    I got my adult daughter started on chickens this year. They are just starting to lay. The two sex links are doing great. Daily large eggs. The BR is the one in question. She has been laying at least two weeks. Alternating very small eggs with unformed eggs, and a few soft shelled...
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    question on mixing in this years chicks with last years hens.

    I am awaiting the arrival of my new chicks. Once they are ready (feathered out), I want to add them to my existing hens. I was not successful at this last year. I built a partition in the coop, and put the feathered chicks behind the wire. The older ones kept trying to attack. I have now...
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    sexing 9 week old chicks Very concerned!!!!

    We started 2 Silver Wyandottes, 4 RIR's, and 2 Barred Rocks approximately 3/31. All of their bodies are similar in shape and size. However, one of the Barred Rocks, and 2 of the RIR's have much darker combs, and they have wattles. Everyone else has very short, pale combs and no wattles. Is...
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