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    Chick With Dislocated Hip…

    So this little one is about five days old…The first few days I struggled with what to do…I tried hobbles and a separate brooder with better flooring for grip…Three days ago I built a harness, but the little bugger was able to jump out of it…Two days ago, I settled on this contraption…It’s deeper...
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    Leg Splayed Backward

    Trying my best to save this little guy…The leg is splayed backward…No hobble is holding it forward enough to correct the problem, but the chick can stand and drink if I tuck the leg under it using the hobble, but it can’t walk…It just pushes itself around the brooder…It hasn’t eaten yet either...
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    Hen Looking Up Instead of Forward...

    Hi Y'all... I have a beautiful Lemon Orpington hen who has recently not been roosting at night...Instead, she sleeps on the floor and she sleeps with her head on the ground, her neck twisted so she is looking up (kinda like when they look at the sky to see a hawk)...Today, about three days in...
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    Down from 40 to 5 eggs a day...

    Hi Y'all... So I have a flock of two dozen hens...Just before June 21st, I was collecting 30 to 40 eggs a day...Shortly after the longest day of the year, egg production started to decrease rapidly...At present, I get maybe 5 eggs a day...These are hens that are in their prime (all 1.5 - 2...
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    Rooster (and some hens) Loosing Feathers...

    Howdy!!! My rooster and a couple of hens are loosing feathers on their backs near their tails (and one hen is loosing feathers under her wattle)... I've ignored feather loss in the past, as I've always attributed it to breeding with a low hen to rooster ratio, but now I have twenty four hens...
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    When will they start???

    Howdy... My last round of chicks hatched on April 20th...None of them are laying yet...They are Orpington/Auracana mix...Any ideas when I can expect eggs??? Thanks in advance...
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    Rat Snake Ate Cermic Eggs...

    So, I found a huge rat snake in my coop today and it has very clearly eaten EIGHT of my dozen ceramic eggs... I assume he's a goner now, as I can't imagine he'll be able to pass them naturally... Has anyone had a similar experience and if so, how can I prevent this from happening again???
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    Chickens Too Chicken to Integrate...

    I have a mixed flock of Orpingtons and Ameracuana (five hens and two roosters - the imbalanced ratio is a result of predation)...I have six Cochin hens that have been exposed to the flock for weeks...They have actually been living in a quarantine pen in the coop/run for a couple of weeks...I...
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    Training Juveniles...

    I'm about to integrate my juveniles with my flock and I'm not concerned about them getting along...I am concerned that I will lose some of them to the woods around my yard as I have in the past while they are getting trained to come back to the coop at night...Will they follow the adults and how...
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    Hen Rejected Viable Eggs!!!

    Hi All... Any thoughts on why a hen would reject healthy eggs??? She'd been on them for five days and then this morning I found eggs strewn around the coop...She even had a broken one stuck to her feathers...I took the eggs inside and candled them and at least three of the five were...
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    Broody Hen Question...

    I have a first time broody Orpington...She's been on the eggs consistently now for four or five days I guess...I really want to keep her broody for the next set of eggs I bought online, but I have a few questions as I don't normally use hens to hatch eggs... 1) I know she may not go the...
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    Not seen this before...

    So, last night, I moved my four week old Blue Cochins to a larger brooder...I have a large tub brooder for newborns and eventually they get moved into different brooders until they can be integrated into the flock...These gals were quite happy in the newborn brooder and would roam freely...
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    IS THIS SOMETHING SERIOUS???

    These are some pics of our rooster Bob...He's about nine months old...We started noticing the red under his beak about a month ago and just assumed it was a wattle starting...But it's obvious that something's not right...Does anyone have any idea what's happening here??? Thanks in advance...
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    Poop on Bums...

    Hi Y'all... I just bought 6 baby chicks from the local feed store and in the time it took to get home (less than an hour) one of them died and one is dying...Three of the others have poop caked on their butts...Not sure that has anything to do with it as the ones that are dead/dying DON'T have...
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    Integrating Baby Chicks...

    Hi All... I'm about to get some chicks today and I just have a question about integrating them... Will the hens adopt them as newborns, or do they need to be kept separate and then integrated as juveniles? My hens are not even a year old yet (they were born in June)...They have been laying...
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    Runny Poop (with pic)...

    Hi Y'all... I just noticed this on the walkway after letting the chickens free range for the day...It's dried up now, but it WAS very watery...I found evidence of similar poop in their poop boxes, but since I use a combination of play and stall sand in their boxes, it's hard to know how long...
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    Hen Laying Eggs In Plant Pot...

    One of my hens started laying eggs about two months ahead of schedule and I didn't have my nesting boxes ready...She decided to use my potted fig tree as her nest...Every day, when I open the coop doors, she heads over to the fig tree and lays an egg (she's got close to a dozen now)...I'm...
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    Something's taking my hens...

    I've lost six hens in the last ten weeks...Last night I lost two...They free range all day and then the rooster leads them back to the coop at night...He's a juvenile rooster and the hens used to separate into two different flocks, so (in the beginning) I didn't question it much...I just figured...
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    Combining Flocks...

    Hi Y'all... I have six chickens (Orpington and Easter Eggers) that are about 2 months old and I have eight chicks (Orpington, Easter Eggers and a Cochin) that are about four weeks old...Is it safe to combine them, or should I wait for the younger ones to grow a bit more??? BTW...The Cochin...
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    What Happened to Shipped Eggs???

    I've been hatching for decades, but took a break from it all about eleven years ago when I moved to the city...Now I'm back hatching again and my hatch rate is TERRIBLE...I used to buy eggs off of EggBid and would have 90% hatch rates or higher...Now, it seems like all of the eggs I buy off of...
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