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    4 week old chick lost its mom tonight

    I have 25 chickens that free range during the day. One hen has been raising one lone chick that was born 4 weeks ago. Tonight when I went to lock the chickens up the baby was in the coop on a perch near the other chickens, but I didn’t see the mom. Then I found the mom dead behind the coop...
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    Chicken survived predator attack but can’t walk

    It’s been a week since my hen was found limping. Later that day I found a bunch of feathers so I realized that she had been attacked but survived. A week later she can’t even stand up. I have kept her isolated and made a sling to put her in for some time during the day. She has a small...
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    Single Roosters seeking lovely hens in Lake County, Florida

    I have five roosters that are starting to beat up the head honcho, Pappa Roo. I have lots of land for them to roam during the day, but it seems "spring is in the air" here in Central Florida and things are getting intense. Four of the roosters I'd like to rehome are on the smaller side...
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    Frail Hen - lost lots of weight

    I have one hen who is less than 2 years old that is not doing well. Several weeks ago I found that she was standing like a penguin so I brought her in the house and gave her a bath thinking maybe she was egg bound. I have bathed her twice and cleaned up her tail feathers. She has not layed any...
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    Possible spine/back Injury?

    I have a young chicken- approximately 7 weeks old. Last Sunday (6 days ago) I found her sitting near the coop. (My chickens free range during the day.) She was sitting while the other chicks (same age) were active. I brought her Inot the house and she cannot walk. She has been In the...
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    Incubator full of chicken eggs from many hens!

    I had two hens sitting on eggs in a coop where the other hens were contributing their eggs. One hen had 16 eggs and the other had 14! When the hens got off the nest during the daytime, we moved the eggs to different type of boxes that we could move easily in the night to a separate area. The...
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    Terribly itchy eye

    One young chicken out of a flock of 30 is screeching and scratching her left eye. The eye doesn’t look swollen, just teary. This has been going on for about 2 weeks! I flush the eye with saline, I have veterycin wound spray as well as veterycin eye drops. I also have erythromycin ointment and...
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    Thinking about a Great Pyrenees & Black Mouth Cur mix puppy

    I have an appointment to look at a litter of puppies tomorrow. The father was a Great Pyrenees and the mother a Black Mouth Cur. I live on 24 acres with 14 chickens and ducks. (I had more chickens, but recently lost 13 to attacks by predators) I am looking for a dog that would be able to run...
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    Free range vs confinement

    I'm wondering what the preferred way of keeping chickens is among the seasoned members. I live on a large parcel of land and my husband wants our chickens to free range during the day. At night they get put to bed in their coop. We had a livestock guardian dog for 2 1/2 years and things were...
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    Injured four week old chick - abrasion on head and back, neck twisting backwards

    Yesterday my husband found one of our four week old chicks in the yard upside down. He brought it in to me and I put it in a box for the evening. I noticed it had an abrasion on it's head, like what you would call a "rug burn" and also a bit of an abrasion on it's back. I'm thinking my dog my...
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    3 day old chick resting and moving only on its "elbows"

    I have a 3 day old chick that hatched roughly 13 days after it's siblings. Because it is so warm where I live, the eggs that were left behind by the mom continued to hatch on their own. This chick looked really funny, it's legs were forward, like a toad. I looked up splayed legs and have...
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    My hen is swaying

    I have a seven month old Olive Egger. She started laying eggs about a month or two ago and layed them away from the coop and nest boxes. She layed for about 10 days and then left her nest. Since then we haven't found where she is laying as our small flock of about 25 free range on about 8...
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    A foot problem and an egg problem

    Good morning, This past week I noticed some broken eggs in the nesting boxes. I didn't think much about it, just threw out the first broken egg I found. The next day I found some yoke in the nest box so I got the hose and rinsed it out. I also noticed that one of my hens had a dirty rear...
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    Dog breed recommendation for farm

    Hi there, I live in Central Florida and I live on 24 acres. I have several chickens and two ducks who free range during the daytime. Recently a stray dog came into the yard and chased the chickens and ducks resulting in a duck with a lame foot and a rooster with no tail and a broken, bloody...
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    New member from central Florida

    Greetings, Accepting the invitation to introduce myself. My family and assorted pets live in hot, humid, central Florida. We've had backyard chickens for a few years now and have also added three ducks to the flock. We started out with five chickens living in our backyard. Recently we moved...
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    My very first rooster - what is it?

    Good morning, I adopted this very interesting looking rooster yesterday from a friend. Her husband took him and some hens on trade about a month and a half ago. My friend says that he is young, starting to get his spurs and getting more feathers. However, he is enormous! I have never had a...
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    Need urgent help for flystrike

    Good Morning, I'm a new member here and have a very distressing problem. Yesterday I noticed that one of my hens had blood running down her rear! I had noticed a few days ago that she had a little bit of a poopy butt. I brought her in the house andI filled a large tote in my bathtub with...
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    Need urgent advice about Fly Strike

    Hi, I am a new member and dealing with what appears to be a critical situation with one of my hens. I have a three year old barred rock hen. Sometimes she has a "poopy" butt. Yesterday, as I was mowing the lawn (yes, its almost summer here in Florida), I noticed that she had blood running...
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