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  1. BethMatt

    CAN'T STAND OR WALK: HELP

    Our one year old BR Just started acting funny yesterday, she can't stand for long, Falls over side to side & even front words into a somersault... I have checked her for any extra no injuries and nothing... I have given her an Epson salt bath no bumble foot, could anyone help me with what may be...
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    Coop bedding suggestions??

    We have just made it through our 1st winter using the deep litter method ( worked VERY well) now that it's warmer I need to switch the bedding out, I had sand last yr witch worked very well also BUT this year we are adding ducks to our flock & using sand is not a good thing being that they bed...
  3. BethMatt

    Picture of one weird egg! Is something wrong???

    has anyone ever seen something so strange? I have new layers BR & RR do you think something is wrong?
  4. BethMatt

    Young pullet please HELP!

    I have an 18 week old barred rock Pullet, she started acting funny a week ago, she stays by herself tail down and lethargic. I finally caught her today and checked her vent a very foul smelling swollen yellow in color & A clump of feathers with poop and what looked like little worms or white...
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    Hen walking funny...

    Has anyone ever had a Hen just start walking real low, almost shifting her weight to each leg slowly?? Our Rooster is young & is relentless at times, & she is usually the target! she seems fine otherwise, but it's almost like one of her legs is out of joint....? I'm not sure, she is acting fine...
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    Rubber egg question

    our hen just started laying a week ago, she has had hard almost perfect eggs until today, she was acting very strange with her tail down & usually our most chatty girl she was really quite, then she stood up & just plopped out this rubber egg right there in the middle of the yard & walked off...
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    Blood on egg shell, what to do? *Picture*

    our hen has been laying for 2 1/2 weeks consistently, The past four or five eggs have looked like this, should I be concerned? And what causes this? She is not laying in the nesting boxes. She lays out in the open in a corner of the coop.
  8. BethMatt

    What breed is this?? We are so stumped!! *PICS*

    Can someone please tell me what kind of breed this is??
  9. BethMatt

    Silver Laced Waynedotte Rooster or hen??? PICTURES!!

    for 14 weeks I have thought we had a hen, now looking at "her" & pics of this breed on line I am not so sure, I just had to get rid of our last rooster & don't want to go through that again, PLEASE HELP what do you think? is there any other way I can tell?
  10. BethMatt

    Training them to USE nesting boxes!!!

    Hello, I need some help or suggestions on how to train my girls to use the nesting boxes!! For the first 4months we had the boxes blocked off, so that they would not sleep in them at night, our first girl started to lay before I got around to opening the boxes to her, & now she (as well as the...
  11. BethMatt

    Nesting box question!!

    so I am about to open our nesting boxes for the first time. Our chickens have been in the coop for almost 3months & the oldest in the flock are about 16wks, the youngest being 10wks. They all use the roost all night for the most part. Now, my question is: When I open the boxes what is better...
  12. BethMatt

    MIXING GROWER/FINISHER & LAYER FEED???

    I'm sure this question is on here somewhere, I just can't find it..Anyhow, I have 11 chickens that range from 16wks, to 10 wks, we have the all on grower/finisher feed now, however our oldes BR's waddles & comb are really red & she is looking so "Plump" latley, I'm wondering if it would be...
  13. BethMatt

    WHAT happen to my Rooster?? !HELP!

    We had a member of our (human) family pass away suddenly, during a funneral, we didn't get home until very late one evening, when I did return home I went out to shut the pop door, & our banny rooster was out wondering around in the DARK, we had two roosters, the banny, & a Barred rock (who was...
  14. BethMatt

    Dropping discolor

    i am new to chickens just a few months, one of my chickens dropping is a yellow foamy color. Can anyone tell me if she's sick?
  15. BethMatt

    Flock management Question

    We recently added 7 new members to our flock, same age as our flock. Things are NOT going well to say the least, we tried keeping them separate, but only have one coop, one run & one area for foraging, It has brought the worst our in our young bantam rooster, & at night, it is Pandamonioum to...
  16. BethMatt

    Adding chickens the same age, question.

    Hello all :) We are buying six more hens today, I already have four hens and two roosters. My husband can't part with the roosters so I have to buy more hens, I would like to know how to introduce them, and if I should quarantine them for a period of time, how do I go about doing that? This is...
  17. BethMatt

    Toxic flowers?

    We plan on planting aubrieta near our coop, can anyone tell me if they are bad for chickens?
  18. BethMatt

    Strange thing the chickens are doing in the coop at dusk?!?

    This is a random situation, but I was wondering if anyone knew or had something similar going on. Our Chicks are about 6 1/2 wks old, they have just started cooping themselves at dusk, but they are doing the weirdest thing when they go in for the night, the dart straight over to this one corner...
  19. BethMatt

    Two Cockerels!

    We have two cockerels, one barred rock, & one mille fleur d'uccle (bantam) they get along very well now & my husband is wanting to keep them both, I was wondering, when they begin to mature, will they still get along, or will we have a mess on our hands with the fighting, possibly killing one...
  20. BethMatt

    Introducing same age chicks

    We have (what we think are) 2 Roo's & 4 hens at 6 weeks old. The plan was to wait until we were for SURE that the Roo's were in fact Roo's, which we are almost sure they are, the problem is my husband wants to keep them both! They get along very well (for now) but I am worried that when the time...
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