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    chick with a cockeyed beak

    I have a 5 weeks old chick that has gradually had its bottom beak grow out to the side. I can see her tongue....or what ever that is in there!! She eats fine but needs a deep pile of food to eat from. She drinks as well and behaves like she is happy and healthy. Should I be worried? Should I...
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    open wound on hen need help

    I have a hen that I thought was trying to sit on the nest but now I think she was just hiding. I picked her up this morning and found that her side had been injured. I am assuming a roo cut her flesh with his claw or spur. I had another one with a much smaller wound and have been nursing her...
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    Roosters change in behavior

    I have a small flock of birds, 13 hens and 2 roosters ( father and son). Also a duck but she is no problem. The RIR rooster was king of the coop from the beginning. The second rooster was hatched from one of my own eggs ( not mine personally but you know what I mean). The older one is 31/2 yrs...
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    2 roos & 3 hens problems coming?

    I have 2 roosters and 3 hens. Fortunately they all get along. Chickie was my first attempt at hatching and he is now 18 months old. Hessy and Spookie were bought this summer and are the same age. Chickie has chosen Spookie as "his girl". But Hessy is Queen of the flock and the two roam...
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    stubborn bird

    I have a very stubborn hen. She is new to the flock and the night I brought her and the other new one home I put them on the enclosed porch for the night. I had planned on keeping them away from the rooster for awhile but that didn't happen. when I let him out in his fenced yard the next...
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    new hens/no eggs

    I have two new hens. They are both a year old. I have had them almost two weeks now. One of them layed a good egg a few days after I got them and one of them is laying eggs about every 4 days with a very thin shell and they break right away. While I would like to have the eggs I am more...
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