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    Hen ill for 5 days now, no better no worse

    Hi, I have a hyline hen who was all fluffed up and crouched down in her coop so i took her in and felt her underside i could feel a egg shaped lump but far over on her right side. I gave her calcium and bathed her, and used oil to lubricate her. I have done this every day for 5 days, she is...
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    hen sleeping on top of coop at night

    Hi, i have a newish hen ( about 2 weeks ) and think she is around 8 months old. at night we have to go and lift her from the apex of our coop to put her to bed, we have an open door on the coop and all the other hens take themselves off to bed but she just sits on the top. i actually think she...
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    breed help again please

    i picked up 2 hens at a wildlife centre, i was so focused on the beautiful all black hen we picked up that i didn't pay much attention to the breed of the other one, now she has layed a blue tinged egg i am intrigued. she has a floppy comb, and such a layed back temperament, she couldn't care...
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    what breed? all black hen

    hi, i have just picked up this hen from a wildlife rescue centre, there was also the identical rooster with her. i didn't take him but i wondered what breed she is as they didn't have any info on her background at the centre. thanks in advance
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    new young polish hen worries

    hi, i bought a polish hen app 15 weeks old yesterday, i only have four other birds, a bantam silkie sussex cross a black rock and 2 others about the same size as the black rock. i put the hen with the others and they are basically ignoring her, the silkie x had a peck but mostly she has been...
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    hens that are cockerels!

    Hi i bought 2 silkie cross hens 8 weeks ago when they where 10 weeks old. the seller said they were hens but couldn't be sure, there was a much bigger one there which she thought was the male. anyway one of them started to crow loudly today, a proper crow too, not even a practice one. the...
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    sulmtaler sexing help please

    hi i have 4 week old sulmtaler chicks ( 2 out of 6 hatched) i am new to this so am not too sure what sex they are, i hope hens but have a suspicion that they are not, they are both the same i will upload pics but the quality is not great as they are so fast!
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    nearly 4 days after first chick and still 3 unhatched

    hi, my silkie was sitting on 6 sulmtaler bantam eggs and 1 hatched on time on saturday night then 1 monday, one egg was bad now 1 has a crack in it so i checked the other 2 for viability using the float test and they floated, with a wee bit above the surface which suggests that there are chicks...
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    help sticky chicky!

    hi, my silkie has just hatched 2 eggs, 1 3 days ago and 1 yesterday and another coming through today by the looks of it, but when she stood up this morning an egg and chick were stuck to her under feathers, i had to prise them off, should i intervene and try and wash silkies crusty sticky...
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    help please, i think I've killed a chick

    hi, my silkie is sitting on 6 eggs, day 19 and i checked then earlier and one egg was cracked all the way round and looked grey under the crack. its our first time and didn't know what to do so we left it for a few hours and went back to check and the egg had a horrid smell. we thought it...
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    silkie not covering all of her eggs

    hi, i have a broody hen and yesterday bought her some hatching eggs. i went to check on her this morning and she was only on 5 of the 6 of them. i put it back under her but should i get an incubator as a back up? this is my first experience with hatching eggs and wonder if 6 is too many. we went...
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    new bully chicken!

    hi i have had 2 chickens for a week, (a white silkie and a wayandotte , I think thats what it is called) and they are very happy together but today i introduced a much bigger sussex.it was a disaster! the sussex attacked the wayandott and made it bleed, i am so worried as i am a complete newbie...
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