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    If chicks keep getting picked on?

    So we have two jubilee orpingtons (one I posted about has scissor beak, so far, she's eating okay on that end) but in the last couple of weeks, both were getting their tail feathers picked off to the point of bleeding. We separated them so they could heal. (It's not just one chick who's doing...
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    Six week old chick died (not sure cause)

    All of ours (sixteen before this) are the same age, this was our dark brahma. She was fine this morning, nothing remotely out of the norm. All were eating / bopping around, no worries at all. Came home, she was gone. No sign of illness or anything. The only thing my husband said was she looked a...
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    Scissor beak (four week old chick)

    We have two jubilee orpingtons. One has a scissor beak (happened rather quickly) the other one, so far, is fine. Besides gently trying to massage it, is there anything else to try? Will watch the other one too, but hopefully she won't have the same issue.
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    Troubles with picked on chick / one bully

    So, the one chick who was bleeding was isolated (she can see the rest / just no access) and we tried to put her back in yesterday. There's one chick (black cochin) who still won't leave her alone. The injured chick also picks off all the blu-kote we put on her. We've added a couple toys, they...
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    Two week old chick - lethargic and wants away from the heat lamp

    She seems to want to be by herself and away from the heat lamp. The temp is fine / all of our other chicks are happy and bopping around. She move away if we're adding food or water, but then goes back to her corner and lays down. Try some yolk or pedialyte? A few days ago she wasn't doing this.
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    How long can chicks last en route? (for anyone BTDT)

    We've gotten our last few groups of chicks from an out of state hatchery, never had an issue, until now. They hatched on Monday, supposedly shipped on Tuesday, and so far haven't arrived. (Coming from OH to MO) I'm starting to worry they won't be okay / too long with no water. Has anyone had...
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    Not laying / won't leave the coop.

    So we have 13 chickens, half of which are around 2.5 years, the rest are just 1.5 years old. Most of them just went through molting, so expected a decrease / less production, but they've stopped now. No eggs in the last five days, and outside of two of them, they won't leave the coop much. They...
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    What to do with bullied chicken once she heals?

    We have 13 chickens. A few months ago, one got an illness of some sort that caused her, at least in one eye, to go blind. In the past week or two, she's getting bullied / pecked on (most of her feathers on her head are gone. He checked for mites or anything else that may cause that and found...
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    Hen with cloudy pupils / eyes

    She, at first, only had one that looked this way, now both of them are, and she acts like she can't see / possibly blind. (It's dark now, but I will try to get pictures tomorrow morning.) She's not even a year old, so can rule out old age. Thoughts? Both eyes were fine probably a month to six...
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    Hens fighting?

    I read a few posts on this, but didn't quite come across anything age-wise/awfully similar. Quick backstory - We have two sets of hens, right now it's been about three weeks of having them being able to see each other / can't get to each other before we put everyone together. So the older...
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    What to do when out of town?

    So we're trying to leave town for a week or so. We have our older (three years) chickens in their coop/run area, they'll be fine. We have seven week-old chicks that, for now, are still in their set-up in our basement. Not sure if we should leave them in there (they're running out of space / risk...
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    Chick loss

    So this is our third round of raising chicks. First round we had seven, no issues at all. Second one, we raised eight, had one crook-neck that was fixed with vitamins/electrolytes. This round, we had sixteen, one died from what we thought was constipation, but even after she pooped, sugar water...
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    Greenish under the eyes / lethargic chick.

    She was fine this morning / afternoon. Now lethargic with greener spots under her eyes. Infection?
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    So if not hawks?

    Okay, so sorry as I'm kind of not dealing with the chicken loss so well. So he mentioned (we lost ten hens) only finding two of them. The rest were just feathers and/or just gone. But the two he found weren't really mangled / no meat loss. Thoughts what truly got to them? We didn't even find...
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    Lost most of them.

    So, and I'm trying my best to not be mad, my other half let our chickens "out out" yesterday, which he had been doing most of this week since it had been rainy and their run area was muddy. Hawk attack took out 10 of our 15. Our girls were devastated. Sometimes this just really sucks.
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    Wry neck?

    Friday, 3 week old chick was fine, Saturday morning couldn't lift her neck much, not moving around either. (Still managed to get to the water and food.) Started her on electrolytes/vitamins and by now she's better /can lift her head/ moving around fine, still eating and drinking, but every so...
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    Chick coloring question

    More for fun, I was trying to figure out which chick is which breed based on this. https://meyerhatch.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/2142226-standard-chicks Except out of the breeds we ordered, that shows just one all yellow chick, but we have two? Black Australorp Black Jersey Blue...
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    Shipping in chicks question

    This was our first time shipping from a hatchery. One chick (the smallest) seems a little disorientated, but at least is eating/drinking, so probably just give her a day or two to recover from the traveling?
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    Speckled eggs

    I read the "common egg problems" article and it mentioned that could from having too much calcium. But don't some chickens lay speckled eggs? (as in is there a way to tell the difference?)
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    Nesting box preference?

    Is this common? Ours will only lay in the final fourth nesting box. Never in the first three. They're all the same size/set up.
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