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    Injured Hen - Help me with wound care?

    Hi there everyone, I haven't posted for a while but today one of my hens (her name is Chirp, her sisters are Herp and Derp) managed to hide while everyone else got put back in the run, and when I let the dogs out they got to her. I realized within a minute or two that they were too quiet and...
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    Hen died with blood in mouth and bloody swollen vent, are the other birds at risk?

    Lost one of my girls yesterday, she was a two year old wyandotte/plymouth mix , normal weight, no feathers missing or anything. She was one of four we bought at the same time and one of the others died unexpectedly last summer with no sign of any illness. I found her yesterday afternoon lying...
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    Lost a hen this weekend. :(

    We lost one of our wyandotte/leghorn cross hens on Sunday and I still have no idea why! She was fine and frisky in the morning when we fed them, but when I came out around 1 to let the girls out for a rummage in the garden she was lying in the run, already stiff! No signs of injury, she wasn't...
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    Immaculate conception?

    I have not had any roosters around my hens since about September, but my only current layer, Martha the Barred Rock, continues to lay eggs that appear fertile (have a little red dot on the yolk that appears to be an early embryo). What is going on? I need to get a pic of what they look like, I...
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    Talk to me about molting!

    So... without getting into the gory details, I've had chickens before, but never experienced the joys of molting. I bought my adult hens (2 Andalusians and a Dorking) just after their molt last September. The Dorking is still laying, but both the Andalusians' combs have gone pale and there are...
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    My hens started eating their eggs!

    I have three year-and-a-half year-old hens... a dorking and two andalusians. We bought them last September and they started laying reliably in March. A couple weeks ago, however, we started noticing eggs with cracks in them fairly regularly. Last week we watched in horror as the three gals...
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    New from Idaho!

    Hi everybody! What a wonderful opportunity this forum is. I have owned various chickens since high school, but have only really gotten serious about it in the last year. I currently own a dorking, two andalusians, two red sex links, and a barred rock, but have also owned amaraucanas, cochins...
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