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    Slipped Tendon Leg Injury, keeps happening in the flock

    Hello, I'm trying to figure out what is happening with my flock and why. Three times in the last year I have had a perfectly healthy chicken start limping and then progressively get worse, with one seemingly bad leg. The chicken will limp worse and worse, then eventually try to hop on one leg...
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    White Leghorn x Easter Egger Americana

    Hi, I have a question, I am thinking about breeding my white leghorn hens with my Easter egger rooster. I remember reading a while back that some people are intentionally breeding this cross for desirable characteristics. Does anyone know anything about that? Does this cross have a particular name?
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    Fighting Mama Hens - What should I do?

    Hello, I have a flock of 15 hens that free range in a large fenced yard. I currently have two hens with baby chicks, and they keep attacking each other! They never fought before they had chicks, but now they go at each other like a couple of roosters. They have all the space in the world, but as...
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    Is there a trick to Encourage a Hen to go Broody?

    Hello, I'm wondering if there is a way to get a hen to go broody? I have a 3 year old BO that was broody last summer and raised a batch of chicks. I'd really like her to go broody again this spring. I've tried setting up a nest of golf balls, and I've tried isolating her in a private coop with a...
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    Rooster with bad leg. Slipped tendon?

    Our sweet 4 month old rooster Rusty, started limping a couple weeks ago, the limp got worse and worse until he wouldn't stand on one leg anymore. Now his right leg is hanging completely limp and useless. I've separated him from the rest of the flock, and he is still his usual sweet chipper...
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    What on earth is wrong with this chicken?! Pullet 3 to 4 months old, bumps all over the face!

    I would really appreciate any help or insight here. This morning we noticed that our blue laced red wynadotte has bumps or swelling all over her face. You can see that one of her eyes is even distorted. Otherwise her behavior actually seems normal, she is running around the yard and eating. What...
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    Blu Orpington 12 Weeks Old - Gender?

    Please give me your opinion... Is this "Little Boy Blue" or "Bluebell"?
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    "Rooster Booster" Dewormer- Good Product?

    I suspect that my flock has worms and parasites. I've had four hens die. They lost weight, had diarrhea, stopped laying, been listless and died. Now I have two more chickens that I've heard make a sound kind of like a sneeze or cough, sounds kind of liquid. I read that when worms are bad enough...
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    First time Broody BO Sitting on Nest of 14 Eggs - 1 Week to go!

    Hello, We are trying our hand at hatching a nest of fertilized eggs with our two year old BO. She was very clearly broody and we decided to get some fertilized eggs from a friend. We ended up with fourteen eggs, of various breeds. My friend has a flock of 20 or so hens with one Americana...
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    Bald Hen - Scaly Leg Mites? Using DE correctly?

    Hi, We have 10 hens that are just over a year old. We've had some scaly leg mites in the past and treated in by rubbing vaseline on all the hens legs. We did that for about a week and it seemed to clear up. We also bought DE and used it to sprinkle in the coop, in their run, dust baths, and...
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    Attention Creative Coop Designers: How Can I Have a Garden this Year!?

    Hi, here are some pics of my backyard where we let our chickens free range. Chicken coop is located in the garden, the only place that doesn't get sprayed down with sprinklers, we have a drip system for the garden. So I need to leave the coop in the garden so it doesn't get sprayed by the...
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    1Year Old Hen Sneezing & Diarhea

    We have a flock of 10 hens, including a one-year-old light Brahma. For several weeks she has had very runny poop and is making a little snort sound that sounds like a sneeze. Wondering if there's anything I can do to help her get better? Or what she might have? Also, we did we have a case of...
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    Is this a Black Sex Link Hen?

    When I bought this chicken at 4 weeks old, I was told she was a BSL. Does that seem to be the case? Thanks in advance.[/IMG]
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    Scaly Skin on Hen's Legs- Concern? -Treatment?

    We noticed that our one-year-old Buff Orpington hen has strange, scaly looking skin on her legs. It looks bumpy and irregular. She has also been acting "broody", staying in the nesting box a lot, and not coming out as much with the other hens. Is this a concern? Is there anything I can do about...
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    Strange tiny eggs! I think one of my hens is broken.

    I have started finding these tiny eggs in my coop, and even around our yard where our hens free range. Have now gotten about a dozen of these tiny eggs, and when we crack them open there is only egg white and no yolk. Is one of my hens broken? ;-) why would this happen? We have 10 hens of...
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    Hen with a layer separated from her beak

    Yikes! One of our hens has a beak injury. It looks like there is an outer layer that has partially broken off. There is a little dried blood. I tried to gently remove it, but it was still attached pretty well. Should I just leave it alone? It looks too separated to try to glue and patch it back...
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    All my chickens sleep in the nesting boxes. How can I get them to roost?

    We have 6 chickens that are 14 weeks old, and another group of 6 that are 8 weeks old. Our coop is divided for now, to keep the older group from picking on the younger group. Both sides of the coop has roosting posts and both sides have nesting boxes lined with sawdust. All the chickens seem to...
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    Herriot, a Black Sex Link Chick? 7.5 weeks old

    I bought this chick with another one, that turned out to be a different breed than they told me, so now I am doubting this chick too. ;-} I bought this chick at 3 weeks old and was told it is a Black Sex Link. We named her Herriot, and were told she is 'gaurenteed to be a pullet." She had no...
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    Is Veronica a Sumatra or Australop? You be the judge!

    I bought this chick at three weeks old and was told they had gotten it from a hatchery and that it was a Black Australop. Well, on a different thread someone pointed out that this chick looks more like a Black Sumatra. She is half the size of all the other chicks of the same age, and twice as...
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    Black Australop - 7 Weeks old - Can chickens be runts? Is this a pullet?

    We have the funniest little chicken, a 7 week old Black Australop, that is about half the size of her companions who are the exact same age. She is the bravest and seems to be a leader, but she is so tiny! Can she be a runt? And to be on the safe side, does this look like a pullet? Her name is...
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