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  1. Mother Therese

    Chicken ate rubber lizard, please help

    Hi, my hen ate a soft rubber lizard, about the size of an adults finger yesterday. her crop was not full last night going to bed, i could feel it in there, and this morning i was the same, with the same feeling of a small amount of scratch that was there last night. she has been sitting the the...
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    Bare back, feathers picked off, end of feather left behind

    Hi, I have these two hens that were getting bullied, about a month ago, and lost the feathers on the small of their back. the feathers were pecked, but the tip of them left behind. I am wondering if i should pluck the last little bit of the feather so that new one's will grow back, or leave them...
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    Can you keep 2 roosters.

    hi, I have 5 chickens. 6 weeks old. One is a black austrolorp cockerel, he is the alpha and is very sweet and docile. One, I believe to be an easter egger, it is too young for me to tell if it is male or female. however it occasionally gets in the face of the austrolorp cockerel in the yard...
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    Question about breeding

    Hi, I have 3 Australorp chicks, 2 share a mother, all three share the father. When they turn into hens and roosters, can i let them hatch out a few eggs in the spring, or are they too closely related?? What are the rules??
  5. Mother Therese

    Help, Sizorbeak on a Child-loved chick!

    Hi, I have a one week old barnyard mix chick that is developing sizorbeak. I noticed 5 days ago and it is getting progressively worse. the beak appears to have dammage on the top, and it curves towards the damage. and the bottom part curves the other way. Is there anyway to reset the beak? Will...
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