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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    My favorite chicken has a very bloated belly. She didn't come down to feed this morning when the others did, although she did a little later. She is walking slow, but not necessarily like a penguin. Her feathers are fluffed up. I just gave her a sitz bath and inserted my finger into her vent. I...
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    Wheezing when breathing after 'possum attack

    Hello, last night an opossum got into our coop and tore out many chicken's feathers, but other than that they all seemed fine except for Millie. She was wheezing. Apart from feathers being plucked out, I don't see any blood on her. I tried massaging her throat and gave her water with olive oil...
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    Bullying or sick?

    My favorite chicken Penny is a hybrid hen, a golden comet. She has been getting bullied lately. I have seen a few chickens peck at her, but I know it's happening more often than I have seen because she has lots of feathers plucked out on the top of her head, and her wings and back. The last...
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    Backyard is pure dirt now

    We have five lovely hens that free-range everyday in our Florida backyard. Our lovely grass is now a desert of sand and anything green has been devoured. I sighed, realizing the joy of our chickens was worth having a backyard that looks like Chernobyl, but today a thought struck me. Besides the...
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    Lethargic chicken not eating or moving

    Hi, I have a black Sexlink (black with agreen hue in her feathers). She's usually the leader of the hens. She tends to get broody. The last two weeks she picked out her belly feathers again and would move others eggs over to her laying area to sit on them. She's barely eat, but I'd remove the...
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    To use a heat lamp or not

    Hello! It's down in the 30°s lately, which seems like Antarctica to us Floridian's, and I'm worried for my sweet girls. They seem fine, but it's been pouring rain too. They free range and have access to their coop all day. I have five. I use Sweet PDZ in their coop and fine bedding in their...
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