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    Chicken walking upright

    We have two old Isa brown hens which were given to us by an acquaintance. One of the hens is walking in an upright posture, sort of like a penguin. She was like that when we picked her up a couple of days ago, but no idea how long she's been that way. There was a third hen who died before we...
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    At the end of my rope -- abandoned chick problem

    A week or two ago I posted about a situation. Long story short, one of our young hens was an appalling my mother: of five eggs, only two chicks hatched. Then she attacked both . We took the chicks into the house. The injured one didn't make it. Now we have a solitary three week old chick...
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    Help please! Baby chicken pecked

    One of our hens hatched two chicks on the weekend: a yellow one on Saturday and a brownish one Sunday. This afternoon when I went to check on them I found the brownish one crying in a corner while the mother and the yellow one were behaving relatively normally. On closer inspection, the brown...
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    Separating Chicks From Hens?

    At what age should chicks be separated from their mother when it's cold and dark outside? Back in late October - early November, one of our hens hatched a bunch of chickens. This was our first time with a broody hen. Perhaps we should have not let her sit in the nest but after considering...
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    Rooster crowing all day

    I am sure this is a very common question but I couldn't really find any threads that didn't contain a lot of contradictory information. Any insight from chicken psychologists would be welcome. :) Background: We just bought chickens yesterday. We bought one adult rooster (2 yrs old) from a...
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