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    Chicken will not stand and lays on its side!

    I found one of my hens laying on her side and not walking but moving her legs about! I took her out of the flock and contained her in a container. She didnt look too well the next day as she was whipping her head in the oddest of ways. I gave her some positive energy and said my goodbyes and...
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    In the name of recycling - OUR NEW CHICKEN COOP!!!!

    DH and I have been searching for a new chicken coop for our lovely chickens as we are sick and tired of using our wood shed. I hate mites and no matter how hard we tackle them, they just keep coming back. Well, while looking on a website for used goods, we found this: Welcome to the Chicken...
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    Mushy crop - draining through mouth!

    Hi All, I found one of our hens in the corner of the coop not doing much. When I went to check on her, she was not looking so good. I noticed that she has gross liquid coming from her mouth and upon feeling her crop, it is very mushy...like a sack of liquid. I put her upside down and massaged...
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    Emergency Egg-Section was a SUCCESS!!

    Here is a picture of my beautiful new Australorp chick, Charolette. She did not have the easiest time hatching herself out the other day. She had made a pip and for more than 12 hours, she did not progress at all. I finally noticed that she was upside down in her egg and could not move one bit...
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    Sap Like Substance coming from egg

    I am incubating a couple of eggs and I have noticed that one of the eggs is seeping amber coloured fluid from the shell. Is this a rotten egg? Should I be taking it out?
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    Chick drinking water, but coming out of mouth when head is down!!!!

    Hi, Yet again, I am on another rescue mission from last night. I noticed one of my 2 months of leg-horn crosses was laying on her side under the heat lamp and getting trampled by the younger chicks. She was completely listless. Luckily she was still alive and I decided to bring her inside and...
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    My hens are eating their eggs...all of a sudden!!!!

    Okay...we had an average of 22 eggs per day with our hens and now all of a sudden they are starting to eat their eggs and becoming broody. Is this just a broody thing they are doing? We are only keeping one hen to be broody and she is taking care of herself nicely, but we are making sure we...
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    1 year old chicken death - bloody poo left behind and other issues!

    Hi All! I am having a very unfortunate chicken year. Too many deaths for my liking and I am very concerned. This morning I woke up and opened the coop for the girls/boys. I found one of my 1 year old SLW dead on the floor. I looked all over her and I didn't see anything wrong, but found a...
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    Chick with injured leg - can they live normally?

    I have tried everything for my chick to fix her leg and it is not doable. She is still getting around without using her right leg, but can she live normally this way? I believe she is eating and drinking, playing with her mates. I was thinking of making a small prosthetic from her hock to...
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    Chick with slipped tendon! Help

    My poor little chick looks to have a slipped tendon on her right leg. She is only 4 days old! I have bandaged her leg yesterday but all it does is swell up her leg, but when I loosen the Vet Wrap, it would just fall off. I have given her some aspirin with yogurt and put some ointment on her...
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    Baby chick can't walk on left side! Help

    I am a mess right now. I just finished hatching my eggs and I have decided today to switch the chicks into a brooder. I noticed that one of the chicks is hopping around and cannot use its left leg at all. This is a chick that I had to help with the hatching process as it was not coming out of...
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    Went Chick CRAZY these past few weeks!!!

    Okay...I hate chick season! Why do they have to be so darn cute and tempting! We had initially bought 50 ISA chicks (not what we wanted, but that is alright). A few had died, unfortunately, and then we bought 15 more (red rock/australorp cross, leghorn cross, sussex cross)....OMG! Just the other...
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    5-week old with a "Bubble Butt"

    I really do not know how to call it, but one of my chicks has a Bubble Butt. Last year I had another chick that turned out having the same thing. Instead of having their tail stick out, their back end is rounded. Does that mean anything?
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    There is something inside my eggs?

    Hi Everyone! I am sorry that I do not have a picture of my silly description below but I am in need of some help. I have cracked open an egg and noticed some funny stuff floating in the egg whites. It is not a blood spot, but more like a small patch of what looks like little grains of sand...
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    Guess where we found our eggs??? How long do they last?

    So...we have about 35 lay hens that are slowly starting to lay. At one point we were getting at least one dozen a day and then it considerably dropped to 4-6. We were quite concerned thinking that Ravens or rats were getting into our coop, but nothing seemed evident by it. My husband and and...
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    One chick flock established....new flock arriving next week!

    Hi, So I have hatched 14 wonderful chicks and they have been in the brooder for about a week now. Next week I will be picking up 24 more chicks from another farm. Should I have these two flocks separated first for about a week? My brooder is about 7.5 feet long and I have made a screen divider...
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    Candling at Day 5

    So I have candled my eggs yesterday which was Day 5. Out of 26 eggs, 17 have begun veining and you can see the beginnings of a little chick! YAY! However, the other 9 show the blood island and that is about it.... Will the other 9 take longer if the blood island is still showing? How would I...
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    How Farmers Hatched Eggs Back in the Old Country

    Hi Everyone, I was talking with my mom one day and she was explaining to me how some farmers around her, when she was young and living in Croatia, would hatch some of their chicken eggs. Apparently they would set it in a pile of horse manure and make sure the eggs were nicely nestled in it...
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    Temperature Fluctuations and Humidity not increasing!!!

    Hi, My DH and I have built our own bator and this will be our first time having chicks and hatching them to boot I am in test run mode before we pick up our eggs this Friday. Everything seems to be working well, but I just want to know if a temperature fluctuation will harm the eggs. From...
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    Roosters - to keep or not to keep - that is the question!

    Hi All! My husband and I will be embarking on our chicken adventure soon with fertile scratch. We have done lots of research and find that hatching our own eggs may be the best route...we may eventually change our minds though After the hatching of the eggs and once they have grown a bit, we...
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