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    To move my ladies or not to move.

    Hello! Looking for advice about relocating my chickens. I have read other threads about moving flocks, but have some specific conundrums I need help making decisions about. I appreciate you reading while I ramble. So I'm moving my little family from Wyoming to Vermont first or second week of...
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    How to get my chicken back outside after a hospital stay inside?

    Hello. I posted a few days ago about a chicken acting sick that I ultimately decided to bring inside, after reluctance due to the acclimating to cold weather issue. Well she's been in my house for two days now, I ultimately still don't know what's going on with her, but she seems a little...
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    Another sick chicken...egg bound while molting?

    Sigh...I have a chicken who is in rough shape and need some advice. I'll give some background info. My chickens are molting and it is getting cold in Wyoming (single digits at night). They've had extra protein (meal worms) access to calcium, scratch to keep them busy, extra shavings in the...
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    Molting in negative temps!

    Hello! Looking for some advice. My hens are still molting, and it is getting to be in the negatives here in Wyoming. They all seem so miserable. Some have more feathers than others. Today I noticed a couple were hanging in the coop looking pretty distressed, and they had some spots of frozen...
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    Help! What is wrong? Egg bound?

    Just got home from work and something I'd definitely up with my 1.5 yr old hen. She is standing in one spot, in a slight squatting position, clearly lethargic, with her mouth gaping. Her abdomen feels hard and wide. I dtuck my index finger fully up her duct and didn't feel anything. She didn't...
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    Brooding and Bullying

    Help! One of my chickens has gone broody, but when I try to (repeatedly) take her out of the nesting box to discourage her, the other chickens bully her. I guess they assigned her that role? How can I keep her out of there without her getting pecked in the face when I do? Isolate her?
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    Chicken manure in the garden bed

    Hello! New gardener and chicken owner here. This is our first winter with our hens. It has snowed significantly but the birds are doing fine; we shovel them a path to encourage them to get out into the yard after a snowfall. My husband attempted a cold frame over our existing garden box that...
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    Chicken with bloody nose?

    checked the coop tonight and one chicken looked bloody and there were dinner drops of blood in her corner of the coop. I took her inside to inspect so I could see her better and it just looks like a little died blood on her nose and comb, without any other obvious injuries. It is hard to clean...
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    Permanent broken leg, ok to sleep alone?

    So my chicken broke her leg several months ago. Didn't have the heart to kill her right away, and decided we would do our best and see how things go. We tried splintng it, let it heal, and she did regain movement in her toes, so we put her back with the flock to see how things would go. She gets...
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    Dog bit chickens butt, how to check for injury

    My dog accidentally got out today while my flock was ranging and went after the chickens. She got one by the tail feathers, but let her go when we went after her. The chicken seems ok, doesn't seem like she pulled out any feathers. We sort of inspected her tail, didn't see any blood, but it is...
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    Vacation-how to keep chickens safe

    Hello! I am leaving for 2.5 days, and am hoping to have my fears quelled! I have 6 10 wk old chickens living in our backyard. They have a coop that is secure, but a run that is not particularly secure, because my partner and I didn't realize exactly how to make it secure until after he bad built...
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    Chick with broken leg at knee Please Help!

    6 week old chick. My boyfriend was working on the coop with the chick's in the run, and tripped and accidentally hit the chick with his cast iron tool in the leg. (He is feeling really bad, so I'm trying not to be too irate at him for working near the chicks like that). I can see a shallow...
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    Another lethargic puffed up chick...

    Hello. My 5 week old Rhode island red has been puffed up and lethargic for a couple days. She is inside and isolated now, but had been getting some outside time and allowed to forage in her run. Her poop is small and watery, and her crop is still present (I don't know how big it should be) and...
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