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    1 year old EE with prolapsed vent

    Hi all! I've been trying to help one of my sister's hens, an Easter Egger who is about a year old with a prolapsed vent. She's currently molting, so I don't think she is trying to lay eggs or anything, but I can't seem to have any luck with treating her! I've been giving her warm baths to...
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    8 month BO with twisted neck, seizures, fever.

    This morning I went out to give my girls a warm mashy treat for this chilly, rainy day, and I noticed my 8 month old BO hen standing on the ramp that leads out of their coop. I wondered why she wasn't running down for the treat, so I held a little on my fingers through the mesh, but she didn't...
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    Buff Orp with runny poo/diarrhea but acting fine?

    Hi all...when I went to let my ladies out for their daily excursion into the yard, I noticed my Buff Orpington hen seems to have a bit of a dirty vent. First, the necessary information: 1) What type of bird , age and weight. -- BO, 6 months, and...I have no idea, but she is one hefty lady...
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    Hen just started laying...now acting ravenous?

    Well, one of my girls, the White Leghorn, just started laying eggs over the weekend! Yay!!! Anyway, today I noticed she seems to be acting really really hungry, like running around the run picking at anything resembling food, devouring grass from my hand, etc. She's the only one doing that...
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    Swollen eye! -- Update, need more advice?

    Ugh, if this isn't the worst possible day to see something wrong with a chicken, I don't know what is! Okay...maybe Christmas would be worse. But still. It's bad. Anyway, I just noticed my little almost-5 month old black bantam cochin has a really swollen right eye! I've been trying to do...
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    Buff Brahma...or Mille Fleur???

    Okay, I have a two month old bantam chick (purchased as "assorted feather-legged bantam") that I thought for the longest time was a Mille Fleur...but now someone said they thought she looked more like a Buff Brahma. So I appeal to ye gods of chicken identification -- what sort of chicken be...
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    7 wk. EE with a raspy voice?

    Hi guys! I was wondering if chicks' voices change as they grow older...like before they start to cluck? All my girls are 7 weeks old, and their little baby peeping noises are giving away to a softer, lower cheeping. One of the Easter Eggers in particular has kind of a raspy sound to her...
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    3 weeks old -- outside time in Texas?

    Hi all! My little chookies are about 3 weeks old now, and getting awfully big for the little brooder I had set up. I thought maybe I could take them out to their future hutch for some extra space. It's not huge (hope to expand it later), and the whole front "wall" of it is screen, and there's...
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    Worried about my bantam chick

    Hi all.... So, Wednesday I received six chicks in the mail...so excited! I have two feather-footed bantams in the mix (not sure which kind -- I got the "assorted" option), and I'm absolutely in love with these adorable little creatures. But I'm worried about one of them -- my favorite chick...
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    Standard broody raising bantam chicks?

    Hi all! I recently had to move one of our Red Star hens from her flock because she was getting severely bullied... I think she went broody, and maybe that led to her getting picked on? She doesn't act sick at all, but she sits in one particular spot and won't move to eat or drink unless I go...
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    Free -- TX -- 4 m/o White Rock rooster

    As Ridgerunner recommended, I'm reposting this in this section. It turns out that one of our White Rock chicks (supposed to be all hens!) turned out to be a roo! I'm so sad because I absolutely love this chicken...he's docile and you can handle him without him pecking, and he's just a great...
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    Help...we have a rooster!!!

    I'm not sure entirely what board to post this on, but it turns out that one of our White Rock chicks (supposed to be all hens!) turned out to be a roo! I'm so sad because I absolutely love this chicken...he's docile and you can handle him without him pecking, and he's just a great critter all...
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    Kuhl nest pads

    Hi all!!! We're just getting ready to put in our nest boxes for our young ladies, and were planning on using some plastic milk crates that we have. I was wondering if anyone has any experience using the Kuhl plastic nest pads? We got some of them, but they feel kind of sharp and I can't...
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    Flooring...will it work or no?

    So, when we built our coop, we put down plywood flooring that ended up being not quite as sturdy as I wanted it. Well, for a while we simply laid down some of our extra scrap lumber and covered it over with shavings, which worked well enough. Only it kept getting shavings in the cracks and the...
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    Pecking order

    Hi guys! I've posted a couple of times about one of my little Red Star chicks, one of 10 one month old chicks we have. She was under the weather a week ago or so -- all better now, thank goodness! But now I'm wondering if the problem wasn't so much her health as her status in the flock....the...
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    Vitamin supplements?

    Hi all! I recently had a mini crisis with one of my Red Star chicks (4 weeks old this week)...she was acting lethargic and just not herself, so I isolated her in a warmer spot and gave her some poly-vi-sol vitamins. She got over whatever was bothering her quite quickly, and is now happily back...
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    4 wk old chick not feeling well?

    Hello all! We own a small flock of ten chicks (4 Red Star, 4 White Rock, 2 Barred Rock). They're about four weeks old, and almost ready to move into their coop. Yesterday I noticed that one of the Red Star chicks was acting lethargic, sitting under the brooder lamp with her wings kind of...
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