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    Catching a Rooster with box and stick?

    There is an abandoned rooster across the busy road we live on and I've been brainstorming how to catch him. He's been wandering around a wooded area but mostly around this little pond next to an eletctrical station. There is a driveway there so it would be easy to set up a little spot to catch...
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    What would cause a single old hen to loose weight?

    So I don’t weigh my chooks on a regular basis, I weighed her several years ago and she was almost 5lbs, she’s gotta be less than 4 now, she’s really light. She Completely stopped laying last year and was only laying maybe 1 egg every other month before that. She also has some other symptoms, a...
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    What is the most common thing old hens die from?

    As my hens get older (we keep them as pets so we don’t mind them not laying) I get increasingly nervous about them passing away, and why, and should I cull? Cause I won’t know what’s wrong or how bad it is... I’m not sure if I’m comfortable yet doing an autopsy but maybe if I know the common...
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    LH/sexlink lays weird eggs

    She has been incredibly healthy this whole time so I never really paid much attention to her often misshappen eggs. No eye/nose discharge, normal poop, normal eating/drinking. She used to, if not still does lay double yolks, along with broken and mended/body checked eggs, wrinkled/corrigated...
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    Buff leghorn? Egg color?

    Alright, here is my little Noodle. I seriously thought that she was going to turn white someday but never did. So that probably means I was lied to.... oh well... She has pink/white legs and white earlobes and that rather light buff color, so maybe she is a buff leghorn or some sort of cross...
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    Pullet acting strange, is it an egg?

    She's a 4 month old buff leghorn, I walked up to the pen just now and she was "running" but it kinda reminded me of when a dog scoots their butt on the ground, she was very low to the ground it was incredibly strange... She is also preening a whole bunch and keeping her body fairly vertical even...
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    Vet says that vent gleet isn't common?

    After cleaning off my white leghorns muddy butt feathers, I noticed some white stuff stuck to her butt and a milky discharge coming from her vent. There was also a very permeable smell... I don't know if that smell came from her butt or somewhere else on her though, but she's the only one with...
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    Variance of shell hardness in flock.

    My sussex was put on antibiotics after being attacked by a possom, so we've had to throw out her eggs. Now it's not really smart but I tried to throw one of her eggs into the empty lot next to our house.. it went about 20 feet, landing on hard dirt and rolled down a rocky slope. Didn't even...
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    Can possums or raccoons break into pet carriers?

    Im keeping my hen, who was recently attacked by a possum, in a small pen with a small pet carrier for a house/nest box area. I plan to at least close her into the pet carrier at night, but I don't want her to be harrassed by that possum or anything else while she's healing. Would it be overkill...
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    Possum scare

    Will chickens ever bolt into the darkness? Just chased off a possom, we havent had a problem till now with an open coop at night. Can't stay lucky forever I guess... So the most dominant hens feathers are EVERYWHERE(I imagine maybe she tried to protect the others?), and I swear I saw her...
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    Chicks pecking at my toenail with fungus

    Ok sorry that is gross, but I found it interesting that they can see something weird there when I barely just realized it was there. Also not sure if this is the best place to post. It reminds me a little bit about how dogs can sense things humans cant always.
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    Pullet has weird neck angle (not wry)

    My welsummer pullet has a somewhat odd angle to her neck, which for a while I didn't think much of. It was only yesterday that I thought maybe it was abnormal, because as I was feeding her something above her head she didnt bend her neck to look up, and would jump up with her neck in that...
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    Chick choking!! - crisis averted....

    Well I read some other posts and after massaging her upside down, i was able to see the thing and get it out, i think she will be ok.. i dont think there is much more i can do for her now but let her rest after her ordeal... phew that was scary... no more treats for a while, i didnt think tiny...
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    A couple questions

    First of all, is it normal to hear the grumbling of the tiny chicks? (They are about a month old). Secondly, I have never seen a chicken charge another chicken like my cuckoo maran chick does. Its almost like a dog playing; squat and charge forward, none of the other chicks do this i don't know...
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    Brabanter looks more Polish

    Shes really sweet, adorable, and I have no plans to breed her (at least not anytime soon) but I was wondering since I got her if she really is a cream brabanter(as advertised) cause she doesnt look like the pics I see online. It wasn't till I saw a pic of a golden laced polish that I thought...
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    Spots/no spots as a chick?

    For a leghorn breed that sometimes have spots when full grown, does having spots as a chick correlate to having spots as an adult? I got a mixed breed leghorn, not sure what it's mixed with but they say they sometimes have spots, and she's all yellow right now, does that mean she wont have spots...
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    Should I change to medicated feed?

    So the barn I got my chicks from has a way of preventing coccidiosis besides medicated feed, they have you give half a dose of amprolium in the water once a week(along with feeding their blend of chick starter feed).. I read somewhere that antibiotics can cause vitamin deficiency and one of my...
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    Should I medicate?

    So the barn I got my chicks from has a way of preventing coccidiosis besides medicated feed, they have you give half a dose of amprolium in the water once a week(along with feeding their blend of chick starter feed).. I read somewhere that antibiotics can cause vitamin deficiency and one of my...
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    Knock knees? Something else? Sick?

    My little 1 1/2 week old brabanter Bowser (she's so stinking cute), I noticed the past couple days (I got them all on Tuesday) has been sitting on Her "knees", I also noticed she stretches more than the others. Lately she's been perching in the cold side of the brooder on a dowel and comes off...
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    Lethargic 1 week old chick

    It's the first day home with us so maybe it's expected? She's an Iowa blue, keeps sleeping and flopping about, I thought at first she had a ballancing problem. I pushed her wing out of the water dish earlier and she just shook her head while the other girls ran away from my hand.. I've tried...
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