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    Chicken healing after dog mauling

    Hi, all, I just wanted to share some good news and get your opinion on these wounds. Last Wednesday we had a freak thunderstorm and a neighbors dog got into the chicken run (in the back third of my fully fenced back yard). At this point I wonder if someone tossed it over the fence - it’s about...
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    Observations around heat stress and mortality?

    Hi, all, I have a mixed age backyard layer flock and I’m based in Oregon. We just had two out-of-season heat waves — 3+ days in a row of over 100F followed by some very temperate to cool days and nights (70/50F) — about a month apart and I noticed drops in egg production the first round (went...
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    Need recommendation for carpenter/handyperson for chicken run - Portland, OR

    Hi, all, Is anyone on here able to build a run this week/end, or recommend someone? I can pay for materials and labor. Chickens live in a converted tool shed, run will be 10'x16' or 16'x16'. I'm handy but need help and kept putting it off (the basement flooded, other house maintenance projects...
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    How to tell if a pullet who probably had MG is recovered?

    Hi, everyone! Thanks to the threads on this forum and others, I have the great problem of asking when to reintegrate a pullet who probably had MG / CRD and now seems to be recovered. I pulled a pullet from our mixed age, mixed chicken breeds flock (wheaten ameraucana, about 5 months old...
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    Sick pullet- inflamed, crusty, pus filled, smelly left leg

    when I came from work today (about 4 pm) this pullet had an inflamed left leg and was limping. She was not noticeably limping this morning Or last night or any time yesterday or the previous days but apparently by mid morning my roommate noticed that she was spending more time "resting" than the...
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    HELP! - Splash Copper Marans Roo, 3 mos old; pale blue-purple comb, lethargic, v skinny

    HI, everyone. I have a young Splash Copper Marans cockerel, hatched 3/21/17, so about 3 months old. He's always grown smaller and slower than his hatchmates (F1 olive eggers). He's always been just a touch more lethargic than the others as well and hatched last, an assisted hatch (he's #4 of 4...
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    Oregonians!

    I'm in SE Portland and so happy to have chickens.
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    What breed are these?

    Hi! My friend's hen got broody so she ordered some fertilized eggs, let them hatch, and raised them. I took the "hens" home when they were about 12 weeks old - now they're 5.5 or 6 months old. One turned into a roo, the Black Australorp got eaten by a hawk (since then I've covered the run in...
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    Sick barred rock pullet?

    Hi! I got a barred rock pullet (about 3 months old they said) from Craigslist. Well I got two but this one is the one I'm worried about. I've had her about a week. When I got her she had diarrhea and a very dirty vent area, and she was pretty dirty. A week later she's a little more cleaned up...
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    New member in Portland, OR

    Hi! Just wanted to introduce myself. Thanks for this super useful resource! Chickens are so much fun. I have a couple that hang out in a large run in the backyard in southeast Portland, OR.
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