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    A hen with hot and swollen abdomen (but not egg-bound?)

    Hi all, One of my (free range) hens is in her 3rd day of belly trouble. Her lower belly seems swollen, reddish and hot at touch. She seems able to poop, perhaps with some difficulty, and the poop looks fairly normal, although as she's not eating lately there is less and less of it. I thought...
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    Injury or disease? Young chicks with purple heads

    Hi all, I have about 50 young chicks fenced in a relatively large area with lots of grass, shrubs and weeds. They live together with some other chickens and a duck. There are also 2 pigeons and a dove in an adjacent "room" next to their bedroom (but I avoid letting them out in the same time the...
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    Weird slowly progressing fatal (respiratory?) disease

    Hi all, We lost quite a few chickens this year and a few years ago to something that might be a recurring disease. Lately, our last little Silkie hen was mildly sick for a few months, but getting worse in the last 10 days. I browsed other topics but didn't find anything that would quite fit, so...
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    Weird thermometer problems

    Hi, just put a batch of eggs to incubate last night, but thermometers are acting strangely. Previous years I used either digital thermometers or a combination of digital and analogue, but no digital thermometer ever lasted more than one season, so I decided this year to use analogue thermometers...
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    Lady pheasant desperate to mate?

    Hi all, We bought a pair of 1yr old golden pheasants 4 weeks ago (each from a different place). The male still has juvenile feathers and is only starting to show a few adult feathers here and there. They get along well enough. But yesterday morning the female was missing, and we found a hole in...
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