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    Egg bound with yellow diarrhea?

    One of my girls is very sick. She seems to be egg bound and has yellow diarrhea, has lost weight rapidly, has pale comb and wattles with a very, very pale face. I can feel all of her bones when I lift her, but didn't realize until today she was sick....as her feathers are still full and...
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    Full sized chicken laying very small eggs?

    So, one of our chicks started laying at 17 weeks on the nose. Every egg has been very small, complete but small. The double yolkers are still smaller than a regular egg. She is an EE, but what is up with the little eggs? They are all consistently the same size. At first, I thought it was a...
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    Need help figuring out what to do and what order to do it in....chickens dying!

    So, last year, we got our chicks in the spring, had one get stepped on at around 8 weeks old and was never "right" after that. Very small, not gaining well, seemed lame from then on out, never roosted, etc. i finally put her down in the fall. No problems until the first week of April of this...
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    I think one of my 9week old chickens has wasting/failure to thrive

    Is there ANYTHING I can do to help her? If I help her, will be able to fully recuperate? she has just slowly fallen farther and farther behind her peers over the last 4-5 weeks. She does eat, but she gets tired so doesn't eat as much as the others. She is starting to seem unstable? I guess? Not...
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    I have a listless 7 week old chick and need help

    My chicks are 7 weeks old and one of my girls is having a hard time. She used to be lively! the friendliest of the bunch. :) However, over the last week or so, she has gotten more and more listless. Now, she will repeatedly just lay down where ever she is. She won't really forage when she is...
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    Built our first coop....with pictures!!

    Hi! I'm new to BYC and this is only my second thread, but I wanted to share pictures of our coop. :-) We live in WV (for understanding climate here). We currently have 6 chickens but will be taking on 2 more at some point, I hope. The coop is almost 7'x4' and will have an attached and completely...
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    Hi! New to chickens and BYC :-)

    Hi! My husband, son and I are all new chicken owners, having gotten our first 1 day old chicks about 6 weeks ago. :-) We had a short run of pasty butt and have had no other problems. We completely LOVE our chickens and have had lots of fun with them. We *just* finished our coop today and are...
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