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    Badly infected upper beak. Advice please!

    We've been dealing with this issue for about three weeks now. I've scoured the internet and I've posted online but I'm still unsure of what else I can do for this poor bird. Three out of nine birds have had the same lump appear in the same location on the upper beak. I thought it may be fowl...
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    Two recent deaths. Now a very sick egg bound hen. Please help!

    I had two unexplained and sudden deaths 2 nights ago. Everything has been chaotic and all of the chickens seem to be having different issues. Here is a link to my last thread. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1116677/impaction-infectious-bronchitis-mites-what-is-causing-this#post_17204901...
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    Impaction? Infectious bronchitis? Mites? What is causing this?

    Please help. I have no idea what is happening with my birds. A few days ago I came outside to find one of my bantam pullets huddled in a corner. I pulled her out and noticed a long black string wrapped around her foot and in her mouth like she had swallowed it. After many miserable attempts to...
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    2 month old light brahma. Pullet?

    Everything about this chick has screamed roo from day one, but I've started having my doubts in the last couple of weeks. It's especially hard since I don't have another brahma to compare it to. But it seems like everyone else's cockerels had pretty obvious combs by eight weeks. I would would...
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    Expected colors: Buff laced/WC Blue polish

    I haven't had much luck when researching this. I'm mostly just curious. I had no idea chicken color genetics could get so complicated. And I've had a few graduate level genetics courses. Lol! What kind of chicks would you expect from a bearded Buff laced Polish hen and a Frizzle white crested...
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    4 week old Ideal bantams

    Gender or breed suggestions? We thought this one was a mottled Cochin and a male. But there's still no comb, and it's chest feathers are coming in pure white. 4 toes. And yellow, feathered feet. We're stumped. Also, no hint of a comb yet. Slowest to feather. Stands tall. This one has to be...
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    Can't break a broody hen.

    I officially have the worlds most stubborn chicken. She's a Java and a little over a year old. We have tried EVERYthing to break her from being broody. Isolated her in a wire bottomed crate during the day for 4 days until she just got so stressed and screechy that all the others started...
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    Assorted bantams

    Hi everyone! I was hoping you guys might have some insight into these chicks we picked up at a feed store. I've had them a week and I realize it might be too early to tell with some of these, but I'm really curious! Im fairly certain that these two are Salmon Faverolles. 5 toes and beards...
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    Chicken sitting a sick bird. What do I do??

    I have NO idea what I am doing. I am currently looking after my duplex neighbor's 4 chickens. We share a yard and they asked me to look after things while they're out of state. The owners are young, and obviously very inexperienced, and I've had to ask them to improve the conditions for the...
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