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    Blood in egg

    Hello, One of my 9 month old buff orpingtons layed and egg the other day and it had blood in it! The shell was normal, no cracks or blood, but the inside was pretty bloody... another egg we had a week ago had a small bloodyish chunk in it too. It kinda looked like an artery or something but I...
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    Breed Suggestions?

    Hello, I currently have 3 BOs, 2 Jersey Giants, and 1 Copper Maran, and I'm thinking of maybe getting some fertilized eggs for when one of them goes broody. 2 of my BOs and my JGs will turn one in April, and I'm guessing one of them might go broody in the spring. However, I'm struggling to...
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    Sneezing

    Hello, I have a 4 month BO that I got about 1 month ago. We noticed that she sneezed, she passed it on to 3 other chickens, we cured them, but to this day, the first one still sneezes. She no longer has a runny nose, but we have kept her isolated. She now breathes proparly too, eats, and...
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    How Bacteria cusaing respistory disease tranmits after using antibiotic

    Hi, I have read that birds with respitory desease can be carriers for life. My question is do they transmit itto other birds even when they are treated and have no signs? Also, is there diseases contagious even when it has been treated and is is in remission? I have always been under...
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    Cannot find Vet RX

    Hello, Some of my brids have been sneezing on and off. I need Vet RX to treat them. I live in Vancuver Canada and checked the feed stores around the city and even in Bellingham area in US and had no luck. Is there anyone in Vancvouver area who knows where I can get it or have extra and is...
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    PLEASE HELP!!! 2 new chicks sneezing, 4 month old with swolen eye

    Hello, I got 3 new chicks a week ago, 2 BOs and 1 maran. Im guessing they are about 2.5 months old? a couple days ago, one of the BOs started about sneezing once every 2 or 3 minutes, and yesterday the maran started too. we isolated them from the rest today, and the maran seems to sneeze...
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    Double Yolk Egg... Whose egg?????

    Hello, About 1 week ago, one of our chickens layed an abnormally larger and especially long egg. Only one of our chickens had started laying a couple weeks before that, but layed very small eggs (she started at 17 weeks old) therefore we thought our second buff orpington had started laying at...
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    Jersey Giant: Boy or Girl?

    Hello, I have 5 15 week old Jersey Giants, but 2 of them are boys, and we can't keep roosters in our neighbourhood . We are trading the two back at the farm we got them from in a couple of days. Although, I am questioning if the third one is a boy or a girl... I think he is a boy, but I'm...
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    Broody?

    Hello My buff orpington, nugget, is almost 20 weeks old and started laying at 17 weeks. Today, at noon she went to their nests, sat down, and didn't get up for almost 2 hours! I went to check on her and she had all the golf balls under her. She also seemed really grumpy and viciously pecked...
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    How much oyster shells should I give them?

    Hello, I have 2 Buff Orpingtons that are now about 19 weeks old, and 5 Jersey Giants that are around 14 weeks. One of the Orpintons started laying 1.5 weeks ago, and lays small eggs almost everyday. Since the others have not started laying, I have not changed their food to layers and give the...
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    Boy or Girl?

    Hello, I have two 13 week old buff orpingtons, and can't tell if one of them is a boy or girl....Spud, the one with the pink crown, I assume is a girl. But Nugget has a red crown, which shows signs of being a boy, but it's smaller than the crowns of other baby rooster orpingtons. Nugget it also...
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