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    Wry Neck Help Please

    My 1.5yr old RIR started having issues with her neck Sunday a week ago....It was all bent over like the pics I have seen for wry/crook neck. I brought her in and started with the vitamins I had on hand--poly vi sol & fortified b complex and did some research. I picked up the rest of the vitamins...
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    Where to send a bird for a necropsy in GA

    If this thread is not in the correct place...please move it or adivsed where I need to post it. Does anyone know where I can send a bird for a necropsy in Ga? I live in Catoosa County, GA and we are real close to the TN line...so if a TN lab would do it that would be ok too. Thanks in...
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    how long will she stay broody?

    I have a barred rock that is broody, 21 days today, she was sitting on 9 eggs and seems only one was fertile (you can see the shadow-it looks like a dark blob and looks like veins in the egg but I cant tell if the chick is still alive)...I had a lady give me a couple duck eggs and I have a...
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    Signs of illness???

    My 9month old barred rock, Lucy has been laying 5-6 eggs/week since the middle of October with no issue. Even since its been cold she still lays regular 4-5 eggs/week and I'm pretty sure she laid yesterday. However last night around 10:30pm when I went to check the coup she was in the nest box...
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    hurt hen not sure what to do

    I came home to find one my hens hiding and not moving. She is the one that always comes to me. She won't open her eyes and it looks like something has got ahold of her. One of the tips of her comb is gone and bleeding and there are feathers missing from the head and back of neck area. Could the...
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    Silkie rooster won't get out of the rain...

    My silke rooster (5-6 months old) will not take shelter when it rains and now its getting cold. I have read wet & cold are not good for him. He is the only silkie I have. I have a 3-4 month old black copper maran mix hen that follows him everywhere even into the rain. My hens (they are older...
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    rescued chicken....need help with breed and age please

    This guy (assuming a rooster) was wondering around a bilo parking lot. We caught him and brought him home. Any help with breed and age would be appreciated.[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]
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    Can I keep 1 silkie roo with standard hens?

    A little history...I am new to chickens and have not had the best of luck...I started out with 8 hens and cocci got 4 of them even though I treated as soon as I realized what was going on. The surviors seem to be doing well now and I actually added another hen which brings me to 5 hens- 1 barred...
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    live bug in chicken fecal...what is it?

    I noticed yesterday a couple of my hens are not gaining weight and growing as well as the others. I brought them in the house, started them on corid, gave them a dose of safeguard and did a fecal-one of the hens had coccidia very badly and passed in the night. The other hen(12(?) week old...
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    Bantam rooster laying on its back, legs & toes curled

    I have a bantam rooster I got when he was 2 days old...he is now 15wks old. In the last couple of weeks he has stopped roosting and will just sleep on the pooping board under the hens. And I have noticed he seems a little wobbly like off balance some & he will let his right wing drag. Just a few...
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    Help please...14 week old rooster not doing well.

    My little bantam rooster is very lethargic. He does not seem to have lost any weight & his crop is full this evening. His comb and wattles have not paled and are not droopy. He has been roosting with the hens but tonight when I went to check on them he was on the poop board under them. I...
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    Keeping a rooster in the same coop/run with hens? opinions/advise please.

    I am new to chickens and have 9 total chickens- 2 turken hens, 2 jersey gaint hens, 2 barred rock hens, 1 dutch bantam rooster(just a pet), 2 barred rock roosters. The barred rocks will be 7 wks old this Wed...and I can very clearly tell they are roosters...I have had thems since hatch. I...
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    How do you pick which Rooster to keep?

    My barred rock chicks are 3 1/2wks old and seems I have 2 pullets and 2 roosters. I have found someone to take one of the roosters since Im only going to have 4-6 hens I wont need both and my intentions were never to have any to begin with anyhow:-) I just wanted eggs-no desire to breed or have...
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    Updated pics 3 weeks today...barred plymouth rocks gender please?...picture heavy. Thank you!!

    #1- Roo(at least I think so)- Stanley #2 pullet(I hope) Rosie #3-at 2wks this one was pullet but Im thinking she has pulled a fast one and is actually a Roo-George/Georgia #4- pullet(I hope) Lucy just one more please...my grandson picked this...
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    New to chickens...

    Hello all....I live in Ringgold GA... (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? yes new to chickens....got my 1st ones alittle over a week ago. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 5 total - 4 barred plymouth rocks(hopefully all hens but thinking 2 of each...
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    New to chickens and need some gender help please.

    I have recently decide to get a few chickens for the backyard and did some research beforehand and decided on Plymouth Rocks...I read how to sex them and tried to pick them out based on head spot, leg wash & overall color...however as they get older all of that seems to be changing. Please look...
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