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    Chicken turning white

    My sweet, adventurous Mille fleur, Scout went through a her first molt a month ago and is now timid and mostly white (she was mostly caramel color prior to the molt) !? She also has bad dander and a pale comb. I have given her some coconut oil, which she (and the other chickens) loves. I am...
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    Pullet with Hurt Foot

    Hi All, I am writing for my neighbor who has recently begun keeping backyard chickens – I am helping him along the way and now need to ask for your help. One of the pullets (1 to 2 months old) has a hurt foot (I wonder if she may have been dropped?). This happened about a week ago – the top...
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    Bantom with pale comb/head for 1 month

    Hello and thank you for reading my post. One of my one year old bantoms – perhaps a Mille Fleur d'Uccle (I am not sure due to adoption) – has had a very pale head and comb for the past month. Additionally, while she was top chicken a month ago, she is now skittish, gets pecked on, and refuses...
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    Flock Health: Soft Eggs and Prolapse. Oh My?!

    I am at a loss right now with how to best care for my chickens, which are almost two years old and much loved. Last week one of my three chickens became very sick as a soft egg shell was stuck inside her. She had been laying soft eggs for two weeks prior. I separated her from the flock...
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    Figured out why Chix isn't eating – soft egg shell stuck inside her

    ...my chicken is lethargic and was without appetite. Yesterday I separated her from the flock and gave her a warm quiet place to rest. Today she ate some yogurt and hard boiled egg. I noticed she had some soft egg shell sticking out of her vent after a bowl movement. I gently tried to ease...
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    Chicken not eating...

    ...I noticed yesterday that my usually feisty top chicken, Dandelion was not eating and was lethargic. She has minimal runny bowl movements. I separated her from the rest of my chickens and she ate a very very small amount of yogurt. I am hoping that she might just be very stressed from a...
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    Impacted with poop 1.1/2 year old White Brahama

    My lovely White Brahma, Big Mama, has been having a very tough week. In addition to a heavy molt, she has a hard abdomen, lowered appetite, and smaller bowl movements. I took her to the vet last week and discovered she was impacted with poop. For the past four days she has been on antibiotics...
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    Hard Abdomen: Year and a half White Brahma

    Oh it is so hard having a sick chicken you do not know how to help :( Big Mama, my White Brahma began loosing feathers about five days ago. I thought it may be molting, but the yard is now covered with her white feathers and she only has a thin layer of feathers plus two tail feathers left...
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    Pecked feathers by Americana eyes

    My Americana is getting picked on by my two other chickens. Her beautiful "mutton chop" feathers below her eyes have been pecked clean. I have been using Pick-No-More Cover-Up Lotion (Rooster-Booster), but I have not been able to apply successfully due to the proximity of her eyes. (I try to...
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    Newly laying Golden Buff with BIG appetite

    My four month old Golden Buff started laying eggs last week, She has laid an egg every day for the past 6 days. Understandably she is very hungry, but I am not sure what I should do for her. She has choice feed laying pellets and spends most of the day free ranging in my native-plants garden...
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    My chicken has Mercks...what do I do with the rest of the flock?

    I just heard back from the vet - my chicken has Mercks. What I wonder now is what do I do with the rest of the flock? The other three chickens have been exposed so I am wondering what I should do. Here are the options I know of thus far: 1) Wash and scrub everything on a regular basis! Use a...
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    New Chicken Ower Worried About Barred Rock Gender

    I am a first time chicken owner and am very happy with my two and a half week old chicks. While I bough my chicks 'sexed' and hoped that meant they were all female, I am now having suspicions about my barred rock. I have attached a picture of the chick in question...please let me know what...
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    Barred Rock Chick - Male or Female?

    I am a first time chicken owner and am very happy with my two and a half week old chicks. While I bough my chicks 'sexed' and hoped that meant they were all female, I am now having suspicions about my barred rock. I have attached a picture of the chick in question...please let me know what...
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