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    Impacted Crop

    I have a 10 month old hen with an impacted crop. I noticed her a few days ago not wanting to fly up to roost, then saw that her crop was very low and full even in the mornings. So I did some research and learned how to vomit a chicken, which smelled very sour and brought up quite a lot of mostly...
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    Urgent help needed - Eagle attack, can this girl be saved?

    Urgent assistance please. We just had another eagle attack, this time we got to the hen in time....maybe. But she's pretty badly injured. As far as we can tell there's just the one wound, but it's large, under her wing. Looks like a big piece of flesh missing so not even sure we can mend her...
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    Will a goose help protect my chickens from eagles?

    I apologize if this is a duplicate post, I could swear I posted this a few days ago but on checking back for replies I can't find the post anywhere! Maybe too much Christmas cheer? Oh well. :) Anyway, we have just started having eagle attacks on our determined-to-free-range chickens. We have...
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    Mystery Illness, can anyone suggest what my chicken died of?

    We have had our flock of laying hens about a year and a half and have learned a lot in that time, but this is a new one... Our flock is fairly large, almost a hundred birds, Two weeks ago I noticed a hen looking "off" first thing in the morning. (I'm getting a good eye for that now, after...
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    Please critique my chicken catcher

    So at my request, DH made me a chicken catcher. We have over a hundred birds in several free ranging flocks and I needed an easy way to get my hands on individual birds to examine them or treat them. We looked online and found instructions to make this simple tool (egg is in the photo for size...
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    Can I feed my 9 week old rooster layer pellet?

    I posted this in an older thread where the topic of roosters and layer pellets was being discussed, but I don't think it's active anymore so I'll repost in a new thread.... I'm wondering about where to put my 9 week old rooster, in regards to feed. I have my main flock of layers (about 100...
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    How high to hang pennant flagging?

    We have a large flock of free range chickens. They have an acre of fenced area with lots of tree cover and brush, however there are a couple of areas where the eagles seem to have discovered a clear enough flight path to be able to get in and nab a couple of our girls. It's not a very graceful...
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    Broody Epidemic!

    It seems that broodiness is contagious in my coop...I have 2 hens setting a dozen eggs each right now so my maternity ward is full. Last week I had 3 hens go broody and they each spent time in the isolation tank which seemed to cure them. This week I have 5 or 6 who are broody! My question is...
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    Can anyone name the cross?

    We got a dozen RIR pullets a few weeks ago, and one of them is obviously a cross with another breed. Anyone care to hazard a guess what it might be? It's got a fluffy head, and a grey face and legs, as you can see in the photo below. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which breed has these...
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    Worm Identification?

    One of my hens wouldn't/couldn't go in to roost last night. She was relatively alert, but looked exhausted, laid down and wouldn't go through the door. I brought her in for a look over, gave her some nutri-drench which she took, and rubbed some Vet-Rx on her as first aid measures. Mixed up some...
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    Do I still need a chick feeder for 7 week old chicks?

    I can't find an answer to this silly question anywhere! We've always gotten POL pullets in the past, but this time we're getting 36, 7 week old chicks to raise up for laying. I'm getting their house ready now and am wondering about feeders. I've got poultry nipples so am going to make a few...
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    Watery reddish brown poop - photo

    I just discovered this poop in my chicken run this morning. The liquid part is quite watery, a little foamy, and mixed with solids as you can see. Does anyone have an idea what this could be?
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    How best to reduce supplemental light in spring

    I haven't found the answer to this question anywhere, so am hoping some of the experts here will have some words of wisdom. This past winter we've added supplemental light as we get only 8-9 hours of daylight at the winter solstice. We gradually extended the day length starting in August, by...
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    Mineral requirements for home made feed

    We are wanting to move towards preparing our own feed for our flock, as opposed to buying commercial laying pellets. I plan to sprout some grain/legume/seed mix, and also feed some in dry form, slightly milled. I was advised to either mix a mineral supplement into the feed, or to offer one...
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    New girls won't go outside

    We added 15 new hy-lines to our main flock exactly one week ago. Learning from our first experience, we released these girls inside the coop so they'd know it was home. There's been a bit of a shake up as everyone reestablishes the pecking order, but nothing really nasty. Most everyone seems to...
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    Is there a "typical" moult?

    We've only had our flock since last June so we haven't yet had a moult. In the last few days I noticed a couple of my hy-lines are missing some feathers around their neck. Here's a picture of one taken today. She's also missing a few on her right leg as you can see. Is this the beginning of...
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    Will supplemental light affect our new arrivals?

    We've been using extra light in our coop this winter to give our hens about a 14 hour day. It's worked great, lots of eggs still, and we use a timer so we don't have to get up at 3:00 a.m.! We're going to be adding to our flock soon, and I'm wondering how our lighting scheme might affect the...
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    Dog got at my chicken and had a feather feast

    One of our Red Rock hens flew over the fence this morning and our lab decided to have a play date with her. I don't see any sign of broken bones, bleeding or other trauma, but she's got a huge bare spot on her back where the dog ripped out a whole bunch of feathers. We rinsed the area with...
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    Hermaphrodite?

    So we have this one odd looking barred rock....hen? And someone at our local poultry collective meeting suggested we might have a hermaphrodite. S/he is a bit taller and kind of ganglier than the others, definitely longer thicker legs but very little development of comb and wattle. No crowing...
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    Chicken has diarrhea, lethargic, not eating or drinking.

    One of our new hens has diarrhea and is hunkered down in a corner of the hen house. When we got these new girls (Red Rocks) a couple of weeks ago, I noticed a lot of loose poops at the time they moved in, but figured it was just due to the stress of the move. I didn't see any bloody droppings...
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