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    Sick turkey - trouble walking

    I have a 4 yo blue slate tom who all of a sudden started having trouble walking - staggering and off balance. One day he was displaying and the next he could barely walk. He's eating and his feces looks normal. He's not laying down at all either. I'm not seeing any obvious injuries either. Any...
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    Broody at night but not during the day

    I've got a blue slate hen that has a rather large clutch of eggs in a dark, isolated corner of our coop. The last couple of days she's been getting on them in the evening and staying on them overnight but then she gets off of them in the morning. When she is on them she hisses and gets defensive...
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    Turkey Hen Laying Down Question

    This is our first year raising turkeys. We had three 6 month old blue slate turkey hens. We recently traded one of our hens for a 2 year old Blue Slate tom. We kept him quarantined until we knew he was fine. Now he's with the hens. Our dominant hen isn't a fan of him though and so they avoid...
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    My hens won't molt

    I've got 14 hens. All of the older hens except my Rhode Island Reds molted last fall (they are the same age as the older girls). My RIRs still refuse to molt and they look absolutely horrible. Besides that they are perfectly normal - eating, pooping, laying, etc. Is there anything I can do to...
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    How many chicks can a hen care for?

    I have a broody Black Austrolorp and we want to get her some chicks. She's currently sitting on 12 eggs. The minimum order is 25 chicks. Can she possibly take care of this many or do we need to set up a brooder as well?
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    Mean Wyandotte Hens

    We have 11 hens, 3 of which are Silver Laced Wyandottes. We got Wyandottes because they are touted as being friendly and docile. Mine are neither. They are quite aggressive, esp. with the other birds and sometimes even with us. All of our other birds are now missing all of the feathers on their...
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    Only two birds, one molting the other broody question

    I tried doing a search for this specific topic, but couldn't find anything similar. We have a fairly large coop because we were planning on adding more to our flock in the future. We currently have two nest boxes. We only have two Barred Rocks right now, both are about 2 1/2 years old. One...
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    Half size and shell-less eggs from 2 1/2 year old hen

    I have two Barred Rock hens left (I posted about one passing away abruptly last week). One of them is laying big beautiful brown eggs every day. The other is having some odd issues (she's my favorite and I hope she's ok). Yesterday morning when I went out to feed them there was a shell-less...
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    My 2 year old chicken died this morning

    We got three 2 year old chickens from a friend's neighbor who was moving and needed to find them a home about 2 months ago. They are Plymouth Barred Rocks. This morning I went out and they were all up on their roost (it was still dark out). I left them some food and opened up their coop to their...
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