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    Sick Hen with diarrhea - any suggestions?

    I have a black sex link hen, Cookie, who has been my best egg layer but suddenly stopped laying eggs and is just hanging around. She doesn't have the energy to jump up onto the roost in the coop, just sits on the shavings. She will eat if it's a special treat like rice or bread, but doesn't...
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    Is it frostbite?

    My BO has the tips of her comb that are black. Just the tips. She seems fine and is eating and everything but I am a little freaked out by the black. Should I do anything? I have a light in the coop to keep it warm but I suspect she got the frostbite (if that's what it is) during the day...
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    Finally!

    My sweet little Easter Egger, Owl, is 9 months old and I had about given up on her laying an egg but I went out yesterday and here's what I found in the nesting box!
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    Changing Brigham City's law

    I am going to the Planning Commission meeting tonight to talk about changing the ordinance to specifically allow chickens. Right now the ordinance does not specifically forbid them but that's how Animal Control interprets the law. I have lots of ammo so hope we can get it done! Cross your...
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    sneaking chicks under a broody

    My poor chicken has been broody for a long time. She is still devoted to her plastic egg but it will never hatch. If I sneaked a couple of new chicks under her in the night would she think they were hers and be their mom? Or would she try to kill them. She is a BO.
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    Should I dunk her in cold water?

    My BO has gone broody. She is sitting inside on the nest and won't come out unless I drag her out and put her by her food and water. Then I watch her stagger back up into the coop. What should I do? Should I let her keep being broody? I have heard you can dunk them in cold water to reduce...
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    Help...all those beautiful new feathers are missing!

    My 6 week old chicks have a bad habit of pecking each others feathers and breaking them off, then eating them. It started when they were too crowded in the brooder (I know, it's all my fault) and we hadn't QUITE got the coop finished. Now they have plenty of room and free range in the fenced...
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    Pheasant chicks?

    I am kind of interested in raising some pheasants and then releasing them on our property in the mountains just for fun. Not for hunting. There's someone here close who is selling the hen chicks for a good price. Does anyone have experience raising pheasants? Do I do it like chicken chicks...
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    What would you do if you didn't have chickens?

    I thought this was the subject line for another post but it turned out to be, "if you didn't have any chick starter". But I thought it would be fun to see what you all would do if you didn't have any chickens? If I didn't have any chickens, I could sleep in on weekends instead of getting up to...
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    Feathers on babies

    I have chicks for the first time. I am wondering when they will be fully feathered out. And also if they lose feathers and get new ones before they are mature. Their feathers now don't look like the ones they are supposed to have when they are adults. How does this work?
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    Sandbox for chicks?

    I have noticed that my chicks (2 weeks old) are taking "baths" in the sawdust and wonder if I should or could put a little sandbox in there for them to take "baths" in. I know the big chickens love to take dust baths but I worry if I put the sand box full of sand in there that the chicks might...
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    sick chick

    I have week old chicks. My mom went in the hospital so I wasn't home much yesterday. This morning I noticed one of them had pasty butt so I washed her off in warm water and loosened the poo till it came off. Then put her back but she is really lethargic and sick. We have been trickling water...
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    Ideal Chicks

    Today was the big day! I got a call at 5:40 am and rushed to the post office to get the babies. There was a cheeping box out in the cold on the dock so I took it and it was to some other lucky person out a ways away so I took it inside and told the postal worker they should be indoors till...
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    nasty popups

    Whenever I pull up your website I get popups that are from bad sites (ie porn). So I have added them to my 'do not allow' sites on my web browser. This doesn't happen to me when I pull up other websites so I wonder if you have something attached to your webpage or something. I'm no expert so...
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    She just lays whereever she happens to be!

    My ditzy, late developing BO has begun laying eggs in the last month. Her flockmates lay their eggs in the nest box every day but she just squats wherever she is and drops the egg. I found one rolling around on the back step and all the hens were kicking it and pecking it. I rescued it before...
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    who chewed her feathers?

    My SL Wyandotte has one wing that is looking raggedy and chewed, and also a few of the fluffy feathers underneath. And SOMEONE has really watery white diarrhea. I can't tell if it's her or not. Could she be molting just on one side or is it the mite thing? I don't know where she would get...
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    Do you think its feather mites?

    My SL Wyandotte has one wing that is looking raggedy and chewed, and also a few of the fluffy feathers underneath. And SOMEONE has really watery white diarrhea. I can't tell if it's her or not. Could she be molting just on one side or is it the mite thing? I don't know where she would get...
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    Her first egg squat!

    YAY! My freeloader BO that I have had for 8 months (she looked like she was about 5 months old when I got her) finally did her first egg squat for me today! I now have hope that she will in time lay her first egg! All the others have been laying for months. Weird that it took her so long to...
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    Beak cropping

    I had a question about why people crop the beaks of chickens and if they will grow back. Also, I have heard of people putting a ring through the chicken's notrils and under the top half of the beak. What is the reason behind doing this kind of thing? Isn't it cruel?
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    Is she a dud?

    My BO is supposed to be about 2 years old. When I got her she looked little and young but they swore she was laying eggs. Well, she wasn't. Her "sister", also a BO got at the same time has a mature looking body and lays all the time and has a large red comb. Little Ginger has a pale pink comb...
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