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    !! Hen With Red Swollen Foaming Eye !!

    My one year old Easter Egger was found today with her left eye shut. She can open it and its clearly redder than the other healthy eye and the skin around it is red and slightly swollen. She keeps itching it and even the mouth area close to it, but eats and runs around like normal. However, when...
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    Broken Beak Please Help!!

    2 weeks ago I went on vacation and a few days after my sister tells me my favorite hen, a barred rock named Velvet, has a broken beak. A chunk of the upper beak tip was gone. I believe it was dried over with blood. She cleaned it and it scabbed in time but I finally got to look at it today and...
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    Urgent: Parasites? Bugs under nest box!

    I have five hens. In the past month they've been laying half as much and the weather is relatively very warm around here, just yesterday the high was 80. I'm thinking parasites and i keep various little bugs crawling under their nest box, previously i found nothing when i lifted it up. My best...
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    Help transitioning to organic feed

    Ive fed my chicks regular grower crumbles from a supply house. It ran out and yesterday I got organic feed which has a separated mixture of beans corn and powdery feed etc, and they avoid it unless they're absolutely starving, always having empty stomachs lately. I dont want to stunt their...
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    First eggs most nutritious??

    My moms been telling me in the first few weeks when my flock starts laying their eggs the eggs will be the most nutritious compared to the rest of their own eggs. Her logic is that they've had a lifetimes build up of nutrients from food and bugs and veggies. I'm skeptical, google showed nothing...
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    Help! My flock has brown clumps along their feathers. Parasites??

    I'm honestly freaking out. Will post picture soon. I affectionately picked up one of my ameracaunas and she felt lumpy. I looked closely and in the fluffy part of her feathers there are brown clumps of various sizes, but not all at the base like lice eggs. I think it might be northern fowl...
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