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    Poor turkey hen!

    Went to feed my feathered kids this morning and found 2 holes dug under our perimeter fence and then inside the chicken and turkey area (which is also fenced) and found the remains of my turkey hen. Something ate her and left me her legs and head. We live in Southern Nevada. Wondering what it...
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    Rhode Island Red-is it a roo or a hen?

    I have a Rhode Island Red that is over a year now (along with a flock of 15 other reds). I am wondering if it is a roo or a dominant hen. I have seen it get aggressive and do the whole challenge thing through the fence at our Polish. I have also seen it mount a hen (not in the way that they...
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    Heat stroke suffering hen-need advice or suggestions!

    Hello, We found one of my baby Polish yesterday evening in her cage having convulsions with her head bent all the way back and her body thrashing. It's been 100 degrees or so, and we thought between the fans and the misting of water that the chickens staying in the garage would be okay...
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    Amerucana Pullet, trouble standing and walking

    We have an Amerucana Pullet (about 6 months) who takes about three steps, then sits down. Her steps are kind of pigeon-toed and unsure. She is eating, drinking, pooping normal (poo is large and solid, pretty healthy looking). Right now she's away from the rest of her flock, recuping in a...
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    A Strange Miracle

    So, if anyone has been following our saga of Lucky, the one winged bird, she has healed quite nicely (if you haven't, basically what happened is our next door neighbors have a wolf hybrid and a 3 foot fence, so the animal goes foraging for goodies in the early morn, picked up this red...
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    Whey as a replacement for soy in feed

    Hello, I'm really interested in creating my own feed for my chickens that is soy free and have been starting some research. We have a connection to organic goat whey-in abundance. Is this a good enough substitute for soy in homemade chicken food?
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    Dot, one of my Leghorn hens freezes like those funny goats from Hawaii

    I have a young Leghorn hen who does this funny thing everytime I go into the enclosure with her and her eighteen sisters. She's the only one who does this. When I go in, she freezes at the doorway with her wings out-like those goats that are paralyzed when they're scared and fall over. I can...
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    Need suggestions for Internal Layer

    Hello, I posted a few days ago about our EE and her eagle/penguin walk. It sounds like she's an Internal layer and that there isn't much we can do for her. She is still isolated from the flock in an air conditioned (but not too cold clime) and is eating with coaxing mostly stuff like multi...
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    Easter Egger stumbling and standing like an eagle with tail down

    Hello, We found one of our Easter eggers about a week ago walking splayed legged with her wings out for balance. She's isolated from the rest of the flock and living in our spare bathroom. For the first few days she didn't have much of an appetite for her regular scratch and crumbles. I gave...
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    Will a hen with chicks kill another hen's chicks

    Hello, We have some hens who are nesting and one of them hatched two babies. I noticed a couple of days ago that our second nesting hen had a baby that was newly hatched from an egg. She wasn't taking the little one under her wing, but watching it in front of her in the nest, instead. When I...
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    Hen won't get up and is panting hard

    This morning I found one of our Easter Eggers hunched up on the ground and panting hard (which makes no sense because it's 31 degrees outside right now). When I picked her up, she didn't fight me, offered her food with the rest and she wasn't interested. I put her back down and she wouldn't...
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    Fluffy cheeks chickens

    We acquired a few months ago, some really beautiful chickens. They have blocky bodies, and are goldish red with black tipped feathers, but their most unique feature are fluffy cheeks-they look like the English mutton chops style. Does anyone know what breed they might be?
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    Frustrated with neighbor's chickens!

    I just need to rant. Our next door neighbors, who are nice people, I guess, albeit not yellow crayons in the box, have chickens and they use part of the fence that divides our yards for one side of their pen (horse fencing). They have over 20 chickens in a space designed for probably 10, and...
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    How much protein is too much?

    Hey, I've been giving the kids outside alternating days with plain yogurt and cooked oatmeal with protein powder in it (complements of Jack Lalane-I didn't like the stuff, but it seems to be all natural with soy and whey) in the morning. I am pleased to see feathers growing back and less of the...
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    Tried some Bok Choy today

    :cdHey, if you're not familiar with Bok Choy it's a vegetable used in Chinese stir-fry (may be easy to get or not depending on where you live). It's about the size of a bundle of leaf lettuce, but has big green leaves at the top and a white stalk-kind of has a taste of celery without the...
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    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle-Just for fun

    We, along with being new to the chicken world, also rescue FIV positive cats. When our indoor cat colony increased, we took the smaller covered litterboxes and cleaned them out for our hens. They LOVE them.
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    Mix and match chickens-why is one getting picked on?

    We are new chicken farmers (if you will) and have a bunch of different chickens in a large enclosure probably about 60 feet in diameter or so. Most of the chickens, I have no idea what breed they are. Someone said that our dominant rooster is a polish silver speckled (or something like that)...
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