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  1. chickmomma18

    Nerve damage in neck?

    Daisy is 30 weeks old. When I closed the coop tonight she fell from the roost. She couldn't seem to get her neck straight. I brought her inside. She got her neck straight and was drinking and eating. I gave her backside an inspection. There was a rock frozen onto her backside feathers. Got it...
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    1st Egg!!! Now what should I expect?

    I'm curious if this will be the only one today or if I should check this afternoon for more? First time momma
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    Why is she walking backwards??

    I have a 20 week old chicken that is walking backwards. Almost as if she has no control. She will be standing there and suddenly going backwards as if involuntary
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    When 5 of your 19 chickens aren't roosting ?!?!

    My chickens are- 4 months old. Everyone is roosting except 5 of them. I have a "runt" who is half of everyone else's size. I think all 5 are at the bottom of the "pecking order" but I have 3 different heights of roosts. (2 roosts for each height) Tonight I put all 5 on the bottom roost and...
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    Question regarding when I go on vacation.

    I have house/cat/chicken sitters who will be living at my house for the 12 days we are in Mexico.. A family trip to celebrate my mother-in-laws recovery from breast cancer. Anyway-I have a potentially strange question. What happens when you go away? Do the chickens forget you and you have to...
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    At what age do I remove the covers from the nesting boxes??

    I currently have 10 -9 week old chicks And 10- 7 week old chicks. The nesting boxes are covered so they can't use them yet. What age do I take the covers off?
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    8 week old Easter Egger with sprained foot??

    It's been 2 weeks originally she was curling her toes to walk/limp as then it seemed to get a little better-she was walking lightly on it normally. Which she is still doing. However, I found her twice on her back while the other chickens walked on her. So tonight she's in a little cage with...
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    Paranoid and anxiety filled after hawk attack (I'm talking about ME!!)

    New to raising chickens. I'm exhausted from worry. Tuesday, two hawks got in our run and killed 4 of our babies. 7 weeks old. After getting the remaining 21 chicks in their coop-it took my husband and I - 25 minutes to get these hawks to go out the same way they came in. We have since...
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