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    Mareks? Vitamin deficiency?

    I have a 7 week old Ranger that lost his ability to walk 2 days ago, so I brought him in and put him in a sling. Since then he hasn't gotten and worse, but I don't know if he's gotten any better either. He acts like a normal chicken otherwise, he eats and drinks great and fights me when I put...
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    Why is my chicken being weird?

    I have a red sex link hen that started laying on her nest right after she lost her flock last month due to a coyote attack. I thought she was depressed so I got a few more chickens to go in with her (we free range our chickens, btw). After a day or two she got off her nest and acted normal...
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    Free ranging meat birds

    So, I've read through all the pages of the thread about fully raising your cornish crosses on pasture. The thread was encouraging and I want to do it with the meat birds I get next spring. But, talked to several people that raise their birds in chicken tractors about letting them range, and...
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    Stinky discharge from nose

    I have a year old chicken that has been sneezing and sounding congested for a couple of months now. It hasn't gotten any worse, and she hasn't shown any signs of distress, so I decided to let run its course ( I don't use antibiotics unless necessary). Yesterday I noticed that she was walking a...
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    Are my chickens getting enough to eat?

    I mix my own feed of oats, wheat, peas, corn, lentils, BOSS, flax, sesame seeds, and kelp to feed my free range ducks and chickens. I ferment 5 1/2 cups of feed, that makes about 8 cups when finished and they get fed half in the morning, and half in the evening. I also give them several handfuls...
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    Chicken hasn't laid an egg in months, faded comb

    We have a Welsummer hen who is about 18 months old that has stopped laying eggs, for about 2 months, and her comb/wattles have been faded for about that long. She has also lost her tail feathers in the last week. She still acts normal. All my other hens have bright red combs and lay eggs. Not...
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    Congested hen

    We got some new hens three weeks ago, they are somewhere around 4-5 months old. When they got put in with my flock they got sick with something that looked like a cold. My flock had the same thing last year, so I treated the new hens with Tetracycline, like I did last year. It hasn't really...
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    Chicken acting off

    I noticed my year old buff hen acting off today. She's kind of moping around, she's fluffing out a little and her comb is a very faded pink. I felt of her crop and it was mostly empty, which means she isn't eating much. All of the other hens look normal with bright red combs. Any ideas what...
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    How to know if my crippled chicken is eating enough?

    We have a hen who injured her leg and is unable to walk. She has access to her feed around the clock and we also feed her 2 eggs that have been cooked in olive oil along with as many worms as she'll eat each day. I don't think she eats much of her feed since her crop is almost empty each time we...
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    Hen with broken hip/tendon?

    I posted last earlier in the week about my hen that is limping. She has been holed up in the coop not wanting to walk, but is still alert and eating/drinking great. Today, I got her out to inspect her more and I noticed that her upper leg, all the way to her hip area, comes too far back when she...
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    Limping chicken

    We have a hen that has been limping for a couple of weeks, and I have a feeling that she hurt her leg running from our rooster that is no longer with us. She doesn't want to put much pressure on it, and she kind of flings it out in front of her as she walks. Her leg doesn't seem to be getting...
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    Sick turkey, please help.

    We have a 5 month old royal palm hen who is acting off today. She is moping around and sleeping a lot. I brought her in and gave her a once over and found nothing wrong with her. Her crop feels normal, she doesn't have any respiratory problems and her poo looks normal. About 2 weeks ago we came...
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    Skinny chickens

    I posted a thread today about a hen of ours acting drunk. When I was checking her over I noticed that her crop was empty and that alarmed me. So I got her some eggs and feed, she ate 4 1/2 eggs and some feed through the day today. It was the beginning of the day so she may not have had time to...
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    Chicken acting drunk

    We are new to chickens, so I have no idea about chicken sicknesses. This morning I noticed one of our chickens acting drunk. She's stumbling around and when I pick her up her legs fly out in opposite directions and her head cocks to the side a little. She seems to have a normal amount of energy...
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    Hen laying around with raspy breathing and crusty eyes

    We are new to raising chickens, and we have our first flock that is 5 months old. Last week we brought two new hens into our flock without knowing to quarantine. The breeder told us that her flock had been tested and are negative for whatever diseases they are tested for. And now we have a hen...
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    What to do with a ringnecked pheasant?

    I went to a local hatchery yesterday to pick up some turkey poults and the lady who runs it pulled out a cute little baby and tells me it's a pheasant. She said it was the only one that hatched out of the eggs she ordered. Once she saw that I liked it, she slipped it in my box of turkeys and...
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    Insulating the brooder

    We are getting our first batch of chicks this month and didn't want them to be in our house if we could help it. We are building a chicken coop inside a lean-to and I wanted to know if I could insulate it with rigid insulation along the inside walls to keep the temperature at a good level. I...
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    New to chickens

    Hi everyone. My name is Caroline and me and my family live in north Alabama. We have had dairy goats for the past 4 years and love it. We just ordered our first batch of chicks and are super excited to raise them up.
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