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    Pullet crouching and leaning to one side

    Something is wrong with my little pullet Pipper. I found her under our coop (a place with very low clearance) and unwilling to come out. I thought she might have gone broody, but we tempted her out with some food. I found her a few minutes later crouching low, dropping her wings (drooping one...
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    Rooster With Darkening Comb

    My 22 week old Ancona roo Mr The Conductor has started to have darkened tips on his comb. He seems perfectly fine otherwise, behaving normally. We have feather mites and live that we're treating right now (kind of bummed, I keep my coop super clean and pressure wash it fortnightly but I know...
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    Leg Mites?

    Hey guys! This isn't something I've experienced with my own chickens but I'm looking after the flocks of two neighbours who are away on holiday over Christmas and today I noticed that my friends' chickens' feet look awful. My first thought was scaly leg mites but since my own chooks have never...
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    Beak Damage?

    My 28 week old RIR x NH looked this morning as though her beak was darker than normal. Upon further inspection it looked a little swollen, almost bruised and the end looks as though it was damaged by something. There was the tiniest tip of blood inside the cracked looking area. So far it...
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    Body Checked Torpedo?

    In the interest of learning more about my chickens I'm wondering about an egg I got today. This is from Lucy, my 3 year old Australorp. She lays sizable torpedos fairly often (probably a few times a week) but this is the first one I've gotten with a nobbly bit on the end of it. Is this what...
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    Week Old Chick - Prolapsed vent?

    Hi all - I got this little chick yesterday with five others from a local breeder. It appears to have what I think is a prolapsed vent. When I got it, it had a bit of hard poo stuck around its bum. When I removed it, its vent looked fine if a little swollen. Last night I discovered that...
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    Torn Claw

    Hey guys. My chicks are still coming inside overnight (winter here and they've not been properly introduced to the rest of the flock yet). After I pulled my 11 week old RIR X NH Sophie out of the nesting box I noticed that my arm was wet. Thinking she'd pooed on me I lifted her up to find...
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    New Member In Rural Australia

    Hi! I've just joined after lurking for ages. We've just recently gotten six chickens in two coops and I'm looking forward to making friends on here and getting lots of useful advice. This is the third time that we have tried to keep chickens. The first time our coop wasn't as secure as we...
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