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    9 year old asttalorpe hen.... respiratory or circulatory/pulminary?

    I have a 9 year old astralorpe hen who has been wheezing and snitting (?-- The word for the sneeze that is not a sneeze, but like trying to expel something) for the past week or so. No signs of respiratory illness. Had been eating, but has gone off her food. Thin, watery poop with small green...
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    'Slow to hatch' egg.... smelly?

    I am hatching chicks. They started hatching roughly 36 hours ago. One was zipping.... had been zipping....for a while. I could hear him peeping and griping while everyone ran him over. Moved the chicks to their brooder a little while ago so I could tend to him. I chipped a little of the...
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    Is this normal? 3 year old Isa browns dropping....

    No idea if this is best suited to -'diseases/emergencies'... or just 'raising chickens' I know that Isa girls generally do not have the lifespan of heritage breeds. I lost one suddenly March 18 from what I thought was a crop issue. Then 2 days ago, I noticed one standing off with the look of...
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    Problem unscrewing little giant 3 gallon (bell shape) waterer

    Ok. I am not the brightest nor dimmest bulb.... but I am having a heck of a time getting the bottom piece of the waterer to separate from the top that holds the water. It screwed on firmly when i filled it the other day.... and now, the plastic tabs are just not sliding out. Is this normal...
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    Grinding Brinsea Mini Advance

    I have 2 Brinsea Mini Advance incubators. Set them up yesterday afternoon. One of them (our older one.... 2013? 14?) at plug in.... and then when the auto turn occurs.... makes this awful grinding/sqealing noise. When I went to investigate, one of screws had rusted and there was some...
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    Acidified Copper Sulfate.... on Amazon??

    Has anyone found acidified copper sulfate on Amazon in particular? Can you share a link? I have found 'normal' copper sulfate....but not knowing the difference between 'acidified' and 'non acidified,' i do not want to make a mistake. Thank you
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    Banty roo with black growth in corner of mouth/face

    I have an 8 year old bantam la fleche rooster that I have suspected for some time as having wet form of fowl pox... like a couple of years. I spotted what appeared to the be the lesions in his mouth some time ago. He has not shown any difficulty breathing. It has not seemed to bother him...
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    Table scraps.... sugar free cookies in particular

    Every once in a while, I go through the fridge and find dribs and drabs of leftover meat, veg, fruit that I will happily hand over to the chickens. Everything in moderation. My question has to do with stale bagged snacks... in this case, sugar free cookies made with aspartame in particular...
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    Head injury? Hen not walking after pecking incident....

    I have a 2.75 year old ISA brown (who is my egg eater) that I was trying to include in my retirement girl coop. She was in a wire cage in their coop for TEN days. This past Saturday, I opened her cage door and within 10 min her comb was bloodied and she was not moving. Brought her to the...
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    What egg colors to expect from these couplings

    I have 3 18 week old pullets -- RIR roo × F1 OE hen that will be laying in the next few weeks, hopefully. I kind of *presumed* I would get some flavor of darker OE as a result of that pairing. And now I'm second guessing myself. I also have 6 18 week old pullets--- EE roo (hatched from...
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    Question about ISA Brown/Red Sex Link Layers

    This started out as a post to the health/illness forum, but I think it goes further than that. About 1.5 months ago, had an unsteady Isa brown. Here's the link. We figured it could have been heat exhaustion at the end of it all...
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    3 1/2 year old sapphire gem.... heart? Heat?

    I have a 3.5 yo sapphire gem which i discovered lying in the doorway of a coop a few mornings ago. I was stepping over her to conduct morning chores. I knew I had to bring her up to the house and no one was bothering her, so I left her while I wrapped up. During the time she was on the...
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    Update to last week's post.... 2.5 yo ISA hen favoring leg and panting

    Original post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/2-1-2-year-old-isa-brown-hen-favors-foot-unable-to-walk.1630418/#post-27846376 We are at about a week or so now (haven't done the date math), and I am suspecting that more so than heat... it might be gout. Her left foot appears swollen...
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    2 1/2 year old ISA Brown hen favors foot/unable to walk

    Found this girl atop the perch this morning.... precariously standing at an odd angle. Realized she was holding herself balanced on her wings. I brought her down to ground level and she just flopped down and started to pant. Of course.... brought her up for inspection. Note- She was wormed...
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    On the topic of Easter Eggers... *Generally Speaking*...

    At what age... ROUGHLY... will I be able to see sex differences in EEs? EEs seem to be so special (read: difficult) because they are a 'non breed.' I have read SO many different things that my head is swimming. Feathering, coloring, number and position of nubs on comb... etc etc. But...
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    Just experienced something new when hatching... looking for answers?

    Just hatched 13 of 14 eggs. Transferred the chicks out to brooder. The remaining egg had yolk all over it and it was stuck to the tray in the hatcher. I immediately thought BAD EGG and went for gear just in case of explosion. i got the egg loose and there was in fact a deceased chick...
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    Preparing eggs for incubator.... 'healed' cracks?

    When preparing eggs for the incubator, I ran into several eggs that appear to have been 'healed cracks' from somewhere in the hens reproductive tract. I soaked them in Manna Pro Egg Cleanser because they were pretty messy from the rain. Would you set these or should I pass? I have some older...
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    Looking for pics of juvenile (6 wks +/-) Rhode Island Reds

    I am wondering if anyone has a minute to show me pics of their Rhode Island Red chicks that are maybe 6 weeks old. I hatched some eggs from a friend. I sorted out the mixes.... and now I am left with 7 and I have no idea what I'm looking at here. I've got big combs and little combs. I've...
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    So I assisted a hatch....

    I am not new to hatching... and after my first inexperienced and miserable hatch assist attempt in 2015, I am cautious to make sure I am moving forward properly. Chicks started pipping and hatching mid Sunday morning. Today is Monday. All eggs were candled on Friday before being placed into...
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    Someone found what is maybe a 'bad broody' sitting on a clutch of 8 eggs...

    Won't bore you with the bad broody part of the story. No incubator space to continue the incubation of these eggs. Do you think.... anyone?!...Bueller?... that these eggs can be candled today and then refrigerated for 17 days, brought to room temp and then put into the incubator? Any...
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