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    how long after a disease to eat eggs?

    I am not sure what my chickens had - some sort of mycoplasma, or bronchitis, with bubbly eyes, loud breathing and sneezing. They are all pretty much better now, and it has been about 3 weeks since any symptoms - apart from one hen, who is still sneezing, no other symptoms though. and one hen...
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    Please help, my chickens are dying...

    I really need help, amost all of my birds are very sick, I need to know what to do. should I cull? will I ever be able to eat the eggs again? They are mainly pets, so this is very upsetting 1) What type of bird , age and weight. All types, chicks and adults 2) What is the behavior, exactly. It...
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    can someone diagnose my hens, and suggest treatment?

    Hi everyone. I have had my chickens for a year, and have had no health problems, until now. I bought some new chicks about a month ago from a local lady, one of them died about a week later, now all my chickens are sick, apart from one or two. the symptoms are, clear discharge from the eyes and...
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    free light brahma rooster - pure bred

    I am giving away this rooster - to anyone who lives close enough to me to come and get it. I live just outside huntsville Texas. The rooster is just under a year old, he can be picked up and handled, but he can be roosterish on occasion.
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    hen or roo

    I thought this brahma mix might be a hen - but lately I am noticing a few rooish characteristics, like pecking at the ground and calling the hens over, a few suspicious hackle feathers and a very deep cluck! what do you guys think?
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    What the heck is this?

    I bought some ameraucana's the other day, and a silkie and a cochin, which you can see in the pic - but I have no idea about the little bantam that hitched a ride home in the box with them. He/she is very cute, anyone have any ideas? Also can ameraucana chicks be white - one of them - in the...
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    Rooster breeding with his babies

    Hi again everyone. I have a few chicks hatched today, I have only one rooster, so he is the daddy. I was thinking about keeping a few chicks, but does it matter if he breeds with them seeing as they are his babies?, will they be deformed or anything?, this may a really daft question, but it...
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    adivce please on hatching eggs!

    Hi everyone - a couple days ago I posted a topic about my broody sitting on her eggs in my garden, it was so hot, and she was so exposed I was concerned for her. anyway when I went out this morning 6 chicks were in my garden, and she was going around in a circle, not knowing whether to see to...
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    hen sitting on 18 eggs in the open, in my garden, 100 degrees!

    I posted this in the raising baby chicks page - but thought I would move it to here as it is more relevant, please help! What do I do!!, I have no experience in this. I noticed my austrolorp hen was missing about 3 weeks ago, and have been looking for her, I noticed her coming out to eat about...
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    hen sitting on eggs, in the open in my garden in 100 degree heat!

    What do I do!!, I have no experience in this. I noticed my austrolorp hen was missing about 3 weeks ago, and have been looking for her, I noticed her coming out to eat about once a day, so I was pretty sure she was sitting on eggs somewhere, she is really young, as are all my hens, I do have a...
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    6ftx6ftx6ft big enough for 15 chickens - people interfering!

    This is a bit silly, but here goes. I have 15 chickens, I originally had 5, and built a coop big enough for them, but my MIL decided she wanted a few, then my son and daughter wanted a couple more, so needless to say they have outgrown their coop. my MIL gave me $200 to build them a new coop...
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    my dog killed all my ducklings, and a guinea today

    I have a 2 year old great pyrenees dog, he is huge, about 150 lbs and up until today has been a great guard dog for the chickens, and has never touched any of them. In fact they all sleep with him under the house. yesterday he killed all of my magpie ducklings, in one frenzied chase, then today...
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    chickens scratching and eating in septic water-eggs?

    I need a little advice! help! this is the situation, UPS truck makes a delivery last week and instead of turning around in our very large driveway, decides to reverse in and turn around on the small lawn behind my house and consequently gets stuck. after revving the engine and sinking his...
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    ducks are so incredibly dirty!!

    I have had chickens for a while, 11 of them, and they are nice and clean, I have them in a mesh bottom cage, so their poop falls through, and I move the cage around now and again, their nesting boxes are full of nice clean straw, which I hardly ever have to change, their waterer stays fresh and...
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    my free range chickens have stopped eating their feed

    Is this normal? are they getting enough from free ranging? we have about 10 acres that they forage on, and they seem happy and active, I put grower feed for them every day, but it just goes to waste. they eat all my cats food, and they go crazy for the wild bird food that I put out, but i worry...
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    little tikes playhouse as a coop?

    hi all I have found a little tikes country cottage playhouse on craigs list for $20 - do you think this would make a good coop? http://www.buzzillions.com/reviews/little-tikes-country-cottage-playhouse-reviews it has a door and 3 windows with shutters which i could easily hardware cloth - i...
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    coop number 2

    i was not too happy with my coffee table coop so i shelved it. this is my new coop that i built directly into my chain link dog run so we can move it around easily (when i get the wheels on!). i have to do some modifying though as i ended up with many more chicks than i wanted - so i am...
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    i got a zillion roos

    Wll after waiting 3 excited weeks for my 8 hens today i got my box. Now i had asked ideal not to put any males in for warmth, but they did it anyway, and gave me a white rock instead of a plymouth rock. so now i have 17 roos. I am pretty sure i have seperated out all the roos since there were...
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    I am really disappointed

    I ordered my chicks from ideal on friday - online, each of them said available. so I phone up today asking when I should expect them and they said 24 FEB!, is this normal?, I thought seeing as they were available and they ship 3 days a week that I would have had them this week - I am almost...
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    I actually built something that looks ike a coop!

    Hi everyone - I am new here and new to chickens so forgive me if my coop looks very simplistic and a bit crappy. I built it all from scrap (apart from new hardware cloth and hardware), I used a solid old coffee table for the base and I jigsawed out the top and put mesh down, used an old tree...
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