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    swollen comb with black spots

    I have a 6-month-old Speckled Sussex hen, Shug, with a very swollen comb. I noticed the comb swelling yesterday, and today there was some blood and black crusty stuff in spots. The black stuff has actually been there a few days and has appeared in recent weeks on combs of a few other hens and on...
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    feather eater, pscyho or curable?

    I have a 3-mo-old golden-laced wyandotte (Bachira) that started picking and eating her flockmates' feathers about two weeks ago, during a particularly bad bout of weather when they were all cooped up in their house. I tried giving her Aviacharge, yogurt and boiled egg yolks in case it was a...
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    impacted crop questions

    Hi all, I'm pretty new to BYC and to chickens, and my favorite chick (Captain Ahab) is having a problem that I suspect is impacted crop. Capt. Ahab's a 2-month-old Ameraucana and for the past day or two she has been increasingly lethargic, droopy head and tail, keeping to her roost, not running...
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    lethargic, droopy-winged, one-week-old Ameraucana

    I have 15 new chicks - all one week old as of Wednesday. They have all been doing very well so far - living on pine shavings, eating medicated chick starter, and drinking water with Quick Chik. I've also been feeding them tiny bits of yogurt mixed with chick crumbles every day or two. Yesterday...
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