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    HELP! NEED TO GIVE AWAY 10 CHICKENS BY TOMORROW!

    I am trying to help a friend who has to reduce her backyard flock by 10 chickens by tomorrow. She is in Lawrence Kansas. These are all young, healthy, people-friendly backyard chickens. The owner does not want them to be eaten. Lawrence has an "urban agriculture" ordinance that allows chickens...
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    Which breeds are "no-fly"?

    I'm curious which breeds are incapable of flying over a four foot fence, if any. I know a Leghorn can easily do fly even higher than that and that there are some breeds that aren't supposed to be able to fly very high, but I once saw "feral" chickens (i.e. that just ran around loose...
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    Silver Sulfadiazine

    Where can you get Silver Sulfadiazine without a prescription?
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    Flystrike question - warning graphic picture

    Hello, some folks have been kind enough to give good advice about this hen, but I have since been able to upload a photo. I believe that the picture shows her intestines exposed and necrotic tissue. You can barely see her vent below the wound. I have been treating her with penicillin since...
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    Flystrike

    Hello all. Discovered yesterday that our three year old hen has flystrike. I thought she just had a poopy bottom and feel very bad about it. She's very thin. The wound seems to have necrotized tissue (horrible smell) around it. Yesterday I soaked her in an epsom salt bath (that's when I found...
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    Duck Questions

    Hello Duck Folks, I friend of mine got 5 ducklings a few months ago. They have turned out to ALL be males. The breed is some sort of Swedish something or other. I would think that 5 males could not be kept together successfully. Is that correct? What should they do? They regard the ducks as pets...
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    What to feed?

    Hello all, I have 4 hens which are almost 9 months old. Mixed flock: Leghorn, RIRed, Barred Rock, Brahma. The Brahma is blind and had a crisis (possibly due to being blind) a couple of months ago when she almost died. She has not started laying. The Leghorn lays a beautiful egg almost every...
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    Egg Bound?

    I know there is a lot of information on egg bound hens on the forum but I'm going right to asking... Barred Rock hen 8 months old. been a steady layer since 4.5 months. a couple of weeks ago I noticed a day or two more when she didn't lay. Then she laid a very sandpapery feeling egg. Otherwise...
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    Wanting to hear from anyone who has experience with lash eggs!

    I posted a few days ago in the egg section thinking I just had a weird egg. It turns out it was probably a lash egg laid by an almost 7 month old leghorn. She was laying an egg a day. Then one day she didn't lay and the next this weird thing came out. She has not laid since. It was suggested...
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    weird "egg" pic (kinda gross)

    I checked for eggs today and found this! It was not laid by my problematic Brahma- she was in a separate pen for the day. There were two brown egg layers present and one leghorn. There were two brown eggs in the nest and this. So I would assume it came from the Leghorn. They are still pullets so...
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    Brahma voice

    Do Brahmas have "different" voices from other chickens? Ours sounds like a fog horn. Fog horn Leg...oops Brahma!
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    Roost for Brahmas

    I'd like to know from some Brahma owners what height they have the roosts for Brahmas? How high will they go up, if at all? Many thanks.
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    Plinky recovering! Fingers crossed.

    I posted several times recently about our 6 month old Brahma that was wasting away. Well, after about a week of special care I am happy to report that she is looking pretty good. Her weight last Wed. at the Vet's was just 3.7 lbs (should be 6 or 7!). I am going to take her in tomorrow morning to...
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    Please help with hen.

    Yesterday I noticed our almost 5 mo old beloved Brahma Plinky laying in the corner of the covered run while the others were outside doing normal chicken things. I went out to see if she was ok and she got up and started moving around normally. Today she is obviously sluggish, keeping apart from...
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    two behavior questions

    We just had our first egg yesterday! We think it is from our RIRed who started "attacking" us when we went to pick up the egg (which was lid out on open ground!). I finally had to distract her with some lettuce so my daughter could get the egg. Has anyone seen this kind of thing? Also, this...
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    First Egg! Now what?!

    Yesterday we found the first egg laid by our 4.5 month old pullets (we think from the RIRed as she was acting strangely defensive when we picked it up). I am still feeding them an good starter-grower crumble feed as well as regular size grit and various greens (lettuce, dandelions, chick weed)...
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    help with 15 week olds

    Hello all, just wanting to check on rooster/hen issue with my "Barred Rock" and Light Brahma. We thought the BR was a Wyandotte until folks on the forum id'd her. Bought from hatchery rep at local feed store. Hatched March 4 so about 15 weeks. Here's Plinky the Brahma. She does have a comb...
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    aggressive birds?

    Hello all, Background: I have our four 14 week old chickens in an enclosed coop/run "tractor". For reasons beyond my control, I have not been able to finish their permanent big coop/run (please don't hold it against me!). free ranging is not an option unfortunately. With the heat I have been...
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    This is supposed to be a Wyandotte pullet

    This is Winky. Hatched March 4 so 9 weeks old. Bought at local country feed store directly from hatchery rep. Of the four chicks bought together ( RIRed, Brahma, Leghorn) she is the biggest, most curious, friendliest. She is supposed to be a black wyandotte but we were kind of rushed through by...
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    Meaning of "clucking" from 8 week old Brahma

    Hello all, I've got four 8 1/2 weeks old chicks. One is a Brahma. This evening when I went to close them in the coop (they are in a tractor-type coop/run for now) for the night, the Brahma, Plinky, who is normally kind of aloof, started clucking loudly in a quick three-beat pattern (buk-buk-buk...
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