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    Slightly swollen itchy peeling toes

    I have a Millie Fleur OEGB pullet that I noticed was sitting a lot. At first I thought she was practicing nesting, as she is really close to point of lay. But the second day, I picked her up and saw she had slightly swollen outer toes (both feet) with a little discoloration and what looks like...
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    Lethargic Hen with Blue/Green Poop

    I adopted some new birds and after quarantine (which included a deworming treatment with fenbendazole and an external parasite treatment though they had no sign of infestation) I put 2/5 newbies into my "playpen" in the big coop to transition slowly into the pecking order. After a few days they...
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    How old was the oldest egg you've ever cooked?

    I store my chicken eggs at room temp and have some that have been sitting out for 8+ weeks that I'm going to confidently boil today. I like to give away eggs to my family but my parents are really paranoid about getting "boiling age" eggs (2+ weeks) thinking surely they will be rotten! But this...
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    Blue genetics with Ameraucanas

    I'm sure this has been answered numerous times but can anyone tell me if it matters which chicken is the black and which is the splash if you are breeding for blue babies? Someone told me they'd only tried a splash roo and a black hen so they couldn't vouch for the other way around. I have a...
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    4 w/o unable to walk or stand: cull or continue care?

    I posted this in a different thread but didn't get many replies so thought I would give it a thread of it's own: I need your opinions on a chick I have: A while back my vitamin supplement for the chicks oxidized from improper storage and with the weeks of nearly nonstop rain we had, they didn't...
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    Could rickets cause underbite beaks and inability to walk/stand in chicks??

    I had a previous thread going trying to figure out why my chicks kept dying and I finally think I figured it out. (Previous thread for your reference: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/783728/unusually-high-mortality-rates-in-chicks-for-2013 ) Someone mentioned they had a chick with similar...
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    North Carolina Flock Swaps (Lee, Harnett, Chatham Counties) 2013

    Please post all ads in the appropriate BST section. You will find the rules here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=250783 If this is going to be a regular swap, please post in the appropriate section according to the rules here...
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    When is a Blood Ring not a Blood Ring?

    I have 18 (well now 15) Black / Blue Ameraucana hatching eggs I ordered on eBay. This is their 5th full day. I was candling them and trying to weed out the dead ones and chose three that very obviously had blood rings and one had a blood spot with no development. I cracked all three in eggtopsy...
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    Unusually high mortality rates in chicks for 2013

    I started a thread under feeding/watering because I suspected my mortality rates were linked to anemia from garlic extract in the water. Since then, I have heard from other people with similar experiences but they weren't using garlic extract. My chicks symptoms before death: Ruffled feathers...
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    Garlic Toxicity in Baby Chickens

    I'm starting this thread to see if anyone has ever had any problems with giving their chicks or adult chickens garlic extract in the water (I've been using Kyolic brand liquid extract). I have never had any problems with giving my chickens garlic powder in their food (no random deaths with...
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    Egg Yolk not Fully Absorbed on Hatched Chick

    Our first chick just finished hatching (after a 24 hour sleep after pipping). I am noticing a bit of yellow on her back end (not very large, about the size of a small shell-less pistachio) She is going to be a special chicken, I can tell already, as she has tried getting back in the egg shell...
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    Greetings from NC!

    Hello everyone! Just introducing myself. My name is Star and I live in the middle of NC in a teeny tiny garage apartment with my fiance, 1 dog, 2 cats, 2 fish tanks, 17 chicks of varying breeds, and 14 incubating eggs (on day 14) from two of my own chickens. I have 8 chickens outside in a...
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