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    Vent prolapse-tried everything I know

    My 4 yr old, actively laying RR has a vent prolapse. I had been all over the message boards and tried sugar, preparation H, manual insertion (she thinks I love her now.) She keeps prolapsing. HELP! I don't want to end her little life if I don't have to. She is dripping poop everywhere, including...
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    Why'd my chicken drop dead?

    One of my 2 yr old hens had been laying around more than normal for 1 day. I noticed yellow runny poop. Then next day she was dead. Any ideas?? She had been eating/acting normally and laying regularly up to the day before she died. I don't want my other hens to be sick, but I don't know what I...
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    Can chickens get arthritis?

    I have a 5-6 yr old barred rock who has been limping for months...first just a little, and now a lot. I never found any injury, it isn't broken and she doesn't act like it hurts her when I touch it from top to bottom. Can chickens get arthritis?? She is getting "up there" in chicken years. Maybe...
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    Funny Story, Rooster car alarm!

    I ended up with 2 to many roosters. I work with a gal that has a big dairy farm and gobs of chickens with which to humor my randy roosters. She was kind enough to agree to take my 2 extra boys. She works night shift, I work days. We had agreed to meet at work (in a hospital parking lot) to make...
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    How long can eggs stay unrefridgerated

    If you go away for a weekend, do you use the eggs that have probably been in the coop for 2-3 days? I do, but should I?
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    Double trouble-heat exhaustion-found wound

    I work nights and went out to the coop this early afternoon and found my silver laced polish young roo and a hen nearly dead, panting, limp.... we have had hotter days so I don't know what went wrong. They had loads of fresh water, two high speed fans and access to lots of shade. I brought them...
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    Sexing chicks on "How It's Made" TV show

    Yesterday, (tooooo hot to be outside), I was watching the show, "How It's Made" and they did a thing on hatchery chicks. It showed the poor babies dropping through conveyor belts and getting tossed onto racks-sad....but not to get off topic. They showed the people sexing the chicks. They picked...
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    Feather picking.....still

    I have spent a lot of time reading about feather picking and how to stop it. I have 10 chickens total, 2 are americanas that are missing feathers over their backs and wing tips. They have been missing for over a year. I got rid of an extremely mean BR hen this spring that I thought was the...
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    Ideas needed for plants chickens DON'T like-garden help!

    My chickens free range most of the day and for the most part, stay where they belong, eating bugs, grass, etc. I have learned what chickens LOVE-ie, tomatoes, clematis vine, sedums, strawberries, etc..... I have a flower bed close to the house that they love to scratch in-just in one corner...
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    Can't they all just get along??

    I have recently expanded my flock of 4hens and 1roo, to include 5 more chicks. I had them in the same coop, separated by a metal wire wall for 6 wks. I gradually socialised them, letting them roost together at night while calm. The chicks have grown, are feathered out and I thought ready for...
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