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    3yo hen, waddling walk, distended abdomen, pain?

    Our 3 year old Rhode Island Red waddles with wide spread legs like a penguin, avoids to move, her abdomen is distended ( ascites?), her tail points down. Yesterday, her breathing was fast, probably because her lungs are compressed from the pressure in the abdomen. We noticed it yesterday...
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    egg laying almost stopped since the spring

    3 2yo ISA Brown, a 3yo Rhode Island Red, and a 4yo Barred Rock produce a total of one egg a day (probably a single layer in the bunch, we don't know who it is) for 10 months now. There is no place for them to have a hidden nest/we look around. Unless they lay and eat right away, but then you...
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    Molting?

    We have 6 hens: 2 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Barred Rock, 3 ISA Browns. One of the Rhode Islands looks pretty bad- lost or broke lots of feathers on side and back of neck, next to comb, wing, tail. The other Rhode Island has lost or broken feathers on the side of the neck. The other 4 look fine...
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    Gender and breed of the white chicken?

    Hi, We got the ISA Browns exactly three months ago. The white one is from my son's classroom and about 3 weeks older, was supposed to be a sexlinked pullet. But now I'm thinking he's a rooster. My friend saw him jump onto a pullet but I haven't seen him do that. They're all rather shy, so those...
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    Very thin to no shell towards one end

    Does anyone have advice for me? We have one not quite two year old hen that has been laying eggs with extremely thin shell towards one end or no shell at all towards one end. (This led to egg eating for a while, which we resolved with nest box curtains that keep the eggs out of sight once the...
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    Time to assist hatching?

    Yesterday morning was day 21 for our 6 eggs to be under our buff orpington. I found one of the chicks hatched and two eggs were pipped at 7 am yesterday. One of them hatched some time yesterday evening. The other one doesn't seem to progress. The pip barely got bigger. We can hear the chick...
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    Lethargic Buff Orpington

    One of our three Buff Orpington's we got last summer was different than all the others (no comb, not grown up chicken shaped neck, lowest in pecking order). It started acting strange about two weeks ago, sticking her head into her back most of the time, barely moving. Just now I thought she was...
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    Buff Orpington's comb pecked bloody

    Hi, we have 3 of each buff Orpington's and golden sexlinks. One but has been pecked on for a while, but today the comb was pecked bloody. It doesn't stop bleeding. She eats the bloody snow, and the others are trying to get her. I separated her, but we don't have any space to put her. The others...
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    Who laid the first two eggs?

    We got two eggs or neighbor found while we were gone over the weekend. What's more likely: They are from the 19 week old golden sexlinks or the buff Orpington's we got from a breeder four weeks ago. Back then he said they were 10 weeks old, which would make them 14 weeks now. Over of them was...
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    9 week old buff Orpington closes both eyes a lot

    We just got three 9 week old buff Orpington's, and one of them closes both eyes a lot. She does open them and keeps them open as well. The other two seem fine (for now). I was having trouble taking a focused picture, so here is a video I took. https://goo.gl/photos/1WeTXqXTdZHAQuWS6 Do I...
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    9 week old black australorp hen or rooster?

    Hi, We have three black australorps that we got from a hatchery sexed as female. However, about 3 weeks ago one of them started to make a sound like those little party favor horn with this little paper spiral that extends when blowing in. That chick looks almost like the other two. The waddle is...
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