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    Is this a rooster or a hen?

    I have no idea, nor can I find what kind of breed this chicken is so I have no reference. It looks like a rooster and is as mean as one. was hatched on May 5. No signs of mating or crowing and when I go to catch it there is a lot of hen noises not rooster. It clucks like a hen when they are...
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    messy coup

    I have been trying different ways to feed to find out what's best. I know a lot of people put their girls food in the coop. I have been trying that, but it's such a mess and I'm afraid it's going to attract flies and ants in the coop. Is this best or should i just put it outside and pull it in...
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    HELP IMPACTED CROP

    I have a Cochin who is a little over a year now who recently got what I think is an impacted crop. The past three mornings when I let her out her crop was full and firm. Yesterday and the day before I let her do her own thing because she was acting her normal self. Last night I had her drink...
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    HELP!!!

    We've had the first hot day in a few weeks today, it was 95 and one of my hens is a little lethargic, not too much though. Her crop is a little soft so I think she's had more liquids than solids today. She pooped this, could this be anything?
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    Please help!

    Hi everyone! These are the legs of my beautiful, twenty two month old Cochin, Savannah. She is the top of the pecking order and has actually never molted. Several weeks ago she started what I felt was a molt. She hasn't lost a significant amount except for recently her neck feathers are falling...
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    Please help!

    Okay so my red rock hen has been getting increasingly worse over that last few weeks. She began feeling very lethargic and having a loss of appetite. At first I was able to get her to drink water and she would eat the grass but now she only grazes and hardly drinks water. She's lost a lot of...
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    Concerning Behavior

    I'm concerned about my eight month old Red Rock, and her sister recently passed because she because she was having convulsions, lethargy, and diarrhea. I'm getting nervous because lately she's been sitting a lot and closing her eyes or standing in a corner hunched over. She'll perk up every once...
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    Broody Cochin

    My nine month old frizzle Cochin recently started brooding in the last couple weeks. She started about four weeks ago and was sitting on her own eggs at first, but stopped laying after about a week. So I haven't gotten eggs in three weeks!! :( But I'm mostly worried because she's definitely lost...
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    Mystery disease??

    Recently I lost an 5 month old Americana to a mystery disease that I, at first, thought was a parasite or worm. She died within two weeks of showing symptoms. It started off with lathargy, and she would only eat if I was feeding her. She seemed to improve on the corid, however her symptoms were...
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    Bloody poop?

    I feel like every time I start a thread here it's about another sick chicken. I've had the worst luck recently. Out of three flocks I've had five roosters! We've been doing really good health wise though until now. Last night I went in the coop and there was blood splatter with some poop. A lot...
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    Squeak Toy Noise?

    So my chickens are about five months old, and one is beginning to lay. (Yay!!) But one of them, she's half Polish and half Americana has recently been making this odd squeaking noise. She looks like she's sneezing when she doesn't but it doesn't sound like a sneeze. She literally sounds like a...
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    Frayed Feathers??

    Okay so this is a picture of the feathers on my four month old chicken's back. It almost looks like the ends are frayed or being eaten off or something? I'm not really sure. She has no injuries and it isn't happening to our other two girls but I just think it's strange because it started with...
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    Earth worms?

    Hello there! I've been doing quite a bit of gardening recently and I found a bunch of earthworms. So I collected them into a jar and was going to feed them to my girls when I thought about how gapeworm can be contracted. I was wondering if there's anyway to tell if an earthworm is a host to...
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    Respiratory Disease?

    Okay so it's our first time getting backyard chickens and we've already just recently lost one to avian pox. They're all about a month and a half old and since we put the last one down I've been keeping a close eye on the others to see if theyve contracted the illness. They've seemed to be doing...
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    Unknown bump on 4 week old chick

    Can anyone tell me what they think this might be??
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