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    Why Does My Chicken Sound Like It Has A Kazoo In Its Nose?

    Tonight, my 15 week old pullet sounded like it had a kazoo in its nose. All my other birds are fine, and this particular bird does not have any discharge coming out of either end of its body. She seems perfectly healthy and was eager to eat and drink when separated from the flock tonight...
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    N. IL and S. WI Chickenstock

    I just formed a Chicken Meetup group for N. IL and S. WI chicken lovers with some help from Andy Schneider, the Chicken Whisperer. You can join up and then we can have a chickenstock! http://www.meetup.com/The-WIllinois-Backyard-Chicken-Meetup-Group/
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    How small is too small to process?

    I have some leghorns that need to get processed. They are starting to crow and are around 11 wks old. However, they are pretty skinny birds. I know they will never look like a Cornish, and are just generally rangy type birds, but what do you think a minimum weight would be to process? I think...
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    My 5 wk olds eat nothing but chick starter...refusing any scratch

    I have older hens and a roo (separate free rangers) that are absolute garbage disposals and eat anything not nailed down. They have pretty much always been like that and actually preferred scratch grains over chick starter way back when. However, my 5 wk old leghorns will eat only chickfeed. In...
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    Older hen looking ill with weight loss and swollen abdomen-UPDATED

    I just lost a bird to these same symptoms, and now my favorite hen seems to be going this route. She is 3.5 years old. Seems to have been losing weight over the past few weeks. Poopy butt, but normal looking stool, depending on what she is eating. Ruffled feathers like she is cold (but it has...
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    Double Yolks Every Day

    Anyone have a chicken that lays a double yolked egg every time? I've had 6 this week! I got 3 new hens because my other 3 are over 3 yrs old and I thought their laying days were pretty much done. Well, one of the older ones is the hen I think that is laying the double yolked eggs because the...
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    My First Rooster!

    I have had my hens for 3 yrs., but last night we added our first Roo to the family. I am so excited! I'll have to post a picture, but it is raining right now, and he took off with the girls for the morning scavage for bugs under the bushes. He was homeless (picked up and was at the animal...
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    Northern IL Chickenstock

    Anyone around Lake and McHenry counties?
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    How much is 800 mg?

    Poweder medicine says 400-800 mg per gallon of water. How much is 800 mg in terms of tsp or tablesoons? I cannot find a converter anywhere online.
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    Help!! How do I exactly wring their neck for humane euthanasia?

    I have another sick hen. Bad respiratory and horrible diarrhea, and now the flies are swarming all over her bum. She needs to be out of her misery, and, disposed of so my other birds have a chance. How do I wring her neck? I don't have an axe or anything, so I can't chop her head off. I don't...
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    Chicken Dropped Dead

    I have 3 yr old hens. This is the second one that just dropped dead on me. The first one was 2 weeks ago. This morning I found Helen dead on the coop floor. It looks like she died on the perch and then fell off. The other chickens didn't bother her body, and there were no marks or anything on...
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