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    Help! EE walks like penguin, sits like an owl!

    My sister has a 2-1/2 yr old EE who has been going downhill the past few days. She waddles like a penguin, and when she sits, she looks more like an owl than a chicken. Walking is unstable, falls a lot (fell down the whole ramp today). She eats and drinks but stopped laying. She doesn't...
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    Fairy Eggs

    I have a 6-7 month old Red Star, Golden Comet, Red Sex Link, whatever . She started laying a few weeks ago, but nothing but fairy eggs. There is no pattern to her laying - eggs weight either about 15 gm with a light brown shell or 30 grams with a darker shell and can come anywhere between a...
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    My SLW changed color!

    My SLW was all black & white when we got her last April. She went through a soft moult, and now half her feathers are cream colored with brown lace! Is this normal? It's definitely weird!!
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    Why won't my chicken lay in the nest?

    We have a 16 month-old barnyard mutt who started laying last November. Up until a week ago, she always laid her eggs in one of the nest boxes. After taking a week off, she laid an egg on the floor of the coop and then the last 4 have been laid on the ground in the run. This morning I decided...
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    Hen can't stand up after losing battle with sister

    Two hens apparently fought over one nest box yesterday. Ellie was so lethargic, we didn't know if she'd make it through the night. By this morning, she is much more alert, is eating and drinking, but cannot stand up. She kind of "flops" to move herself around. We have her isolated from the...
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    Can a broody hen mess up the laying cycles of the others?

    One of my Leghorn mutts just went big-time broody. And now the other two layers are all off-cycle. The minute they lay, she takes over the nest and gets downright mean and nasty when I try to move her to retrieve the eggs. Now, the other two (who always have laid 6-7 eggs per week) are...
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    EE still not laying.......

    Are there ever chickens that just plain never lay an egg? We have an EE that we got in early August when (we were told by the pet store) she was 4-1/2 months old. That was 4 months ago, so even if they were off by as much as 2 or 3 months, she should be laying. Obviously, they weren't off by...
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    New Egg from Arizona

    Hi. I'm a newbie at little birds, living west of Phoenix (I say "little" birds, because a few years ago, we raised ostriches). We got five "guaranteed pullets" in August, ranging from 2-4 months. The roo was rehomed last week - LOL - so much for "guaranteed". Our (best guess) black...
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