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    Awful smell coming from vent

    What a bad day! I have a Speckled Sussex that I suspect is suffering from the excess heat (it's very hot today and she's now comfortably established in my air conditioned house) and I also had to bring in my beloved Barred Rock for what seemed like the same symptoms as the SS, except there is an...
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    Sex Link burned out?

    I have a Red Star that is about 21 months old (she'll be two in November). Around the beginning of the year her laying dropped from one a day to one every other day, and then to one every couple of days, etc., until she stopped completely towards the middle of spring. Her eggs went from strong...
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    SUCCESS!!! *picture*

    Cornflake the broody GLW hen accepted our six new hatchery chicks last night as her babies and is being a super good mommy! . I was so unbelievably nervous about introducing her to the chicks because my first thought was she was going to kill them. I have zero experience with broody hens and...
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    Putting hatchery chicks under a broody (questions!!!)

    Ok. I have a sweet as can be GLW hen that has been broody for about a month. She's just dying to become a mommy, the poor thing. Unfortunately I don't have a rooster, so all her efforts up to this point have been for naught, and apparently she's not giving up her nest until she produces a chick...
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    How long will she be broody for?*EDIT Putting chicks under a broody???

    My GLW went broody over a plastic Easter Egg that I keep in the nest boxes . This is my first experience with a broody hen, and at first I thought about just breaking her up, but THEN I thought about buying some fertile hatching eggs and sticking them under her. I'll have to order them online...
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    Dry feather remedy?

    My sex link has very dry feathers. Since her feathers are so dry the dirt really clings to her when she takes a dust bath, and when it rains the poor thing gets pretty soaked (luckily she's smart enough to run into the coop when the rain really starts to come down), so I was wondering if there's...
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    34 weeks and counting... no eggs.

    I have a Golden Laced Wyandotte, a Silver Spangled Hamburg, and a White Crested Black Polish. All are currently 34 weeks of age and have yet to produce an egg. What is going ON?! My Hamburg has been going through a serious molt so she's off the hook (for now), but the Wyandotte and the Polish...
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    Help with aureomycin dosage

    I can't remember the dosage of aureomycin per gallon of water, so if anyone can help me out that would be great! Thanks .
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    recurring sour crop, need home remedy advice

    My australorp has sour crop. Again. This is the second time she's had it in the span of about 3 months (she'll be a year old this november, btw). The first time I panicked and brought her to the vet. We were given some pills to take care of the slight infection they detected through blood work...
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    big swollen crop, again.

    a few months ago my australorp got sick. She wasn't eating or drinking and her crop was really swollen and hard. I thought she was backed up, so I offered her some bread soaked in olive oil, but she wouldn't touch it. So, as a last resort, I brought her to the vet. Right before we left the house...
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    Shouldn't it be blue/green?

    My EE laid her first egg today. Once she jumped out of the nest box I opened the coop and was shocked to find a very small cream colored egg. I know that EE's don't conform to any standard, and I knew I was in for a surprise as far as color is concerned, but cream? Really? How normal is this...
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    adding 13 weeks old pullets to 34 week old pullets, bad idea?

    Ok here's the situation. I have four 13 week olds (GLW, EE, Polish and a Hamburg) and two 34 weeks olds ('Lorp and a Sex Link). The two older gals live in a coop that's roughly 5'x8' and have an adjacent run that's 12'x10'. Very comfy accommodations if I do say so myself. The 13 weeks olds...
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    Calcium question

    My chickens are picky, and absolutely will not touch their oyster shells. I used to mix it in with their food (I feed them an organic layer mix from Countryside Natural Products), but when I noticed them knocking most of the feed out of the feeder I decided to put the oyster shell in a separate...
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    FREE Iguana!

    I am overrun with animals, I'm giving birth in July, and I unfortunately have no time for this little guy, so I'm forced to re-home him (or her, not sure of the gender). His name is Stinky and is a little shy, but sweet. He's been vegetarian fed since living with us and loves to eat kale from...
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    Mosquito problem in chicken coop

    The other night when I was battling slugs I opened up my chicken coop to see if any were getting in there, and was horrified to see a cloud of mosquitoes fly out . I'm now looking for a safe mosquito trap or some type of control device that can be safely used inside my coop, like maybe a...
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    Uh, chicken dance? *video*

    Can someone please tell me wth my australorp is doing? If I reach down quickly to pet her or pick her up she stomps her feet, gets really low to the ground and sticks her wings out. If I pick her up she relaxes, and if I try to pet her after the fact she doesn't repeat her little performance...
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    First Outing! Lots of pics!

    Saturday afternoon was a perfect, balmy 88 degrees + humidity here in good ole New Orleans, so I decided to take my 3 week old babies out exploring . They had so much fun! My ole ladies sizing up the competition :
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    who done it???

    We found our first egg this morning but I have no idea who laid it! It was either my Red Star or my Australorp, both are nearing 23 weeks. It's extremely difficult to discern which bird laid it since they're both brown egg layers; I'm hoping maybe one of you seasoned chicken owners can tell the...
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    I think my chick has coccy, need advice!

    Hi all! Sad that my first post is about my ill chick, but here we are . I have three little chicks that I ordered from MyPetChicken.com currently residing in an indoor brooder. They are about a week old today. Two of the chicks are thriving beautifully, but the other is noticeably smaller than...
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