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    Advice on chicken attacking newcomer

    Recently, when I went to let our 6 chickens out I found the smallest chicken I've ever seen, just hanging out behind our coop. We later identified her as a mille fleur serama, a beautiful delicate little creature. I'm guessing someone dumped her in our yard, though I can't imagine why. So we set...
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    Hen abandoned 4 week old chick -- what should we do?

    We had two broody hens hatch out some fertile eggs a few weeks back. One turned out to only be sitting on a single viable egg, and only produced one chick. The other has 5 chicks. We've been having to keep both groups separate because the mamas seem to want to kill one another's chicks. The...
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    Help! Chick with hernia (?)

    We have broody hen who hatched 5 healthy chicks yesterday (Happy Easter!) and the sixth had its beak sticking out of a small hole this morning. A few hours later, chick was half out, and by this afternoon chick was hatched. This was all reported to me by my diligent 9 year old daughter, as I am...
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    Worming: Does anyone know of a practical use for discarded eggs? In the garden, perhaps?

    I am so pained over the idea of having to completely discard dozens of eggs that have been amassed during our two rounds of treatment in our four backyard hens. We have been treating with fenbendazole, and are on the second round starting today; so that'll be another two weeks of eggs we can't...
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    Small egg, even stranger on the inside.... anyone seen this before?

    I have an Ameraucana/Leghorn mix who has been laying for two or three months. The other day she laid a really tiny egg. After reading about it, I boiled it along with some others. Glad I ate the others before I looked at this one... eww. It's nasty grey colored and the white has texture to it...
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    Eggbound or something else?

    I have a BO hen, about 27 weeks old. My other BO began laying about a week ago @ 25 weeks of age. Last week we thought this one was ready to lay too. Last Friday she made a nest under a bush, was busy sorting things out. We waited and eventually saw her walking across the yard singing the egg...
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    Ocular Marek's? (photos)

    This is Storm. She is between 9-11 weeks, an easter egger. I just thought she had unusual eyes, perhaps a genetic trait. Aside from a bit of diarrhea (which cleared up after treating with Corid), she seems healthy and vibrant. Her eyesight seems good. She still occasionally sheds some intestinal...
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