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    Aviain flu or ingested roofing nails?

    Hi, I have two, maybe three birds who are sick. The first one has been sick for three days with lethargy, diarrhea, difficulty walking (she waddles slowly), shrunken and pale comb and wattles, and a red swollen belly. It looked to me like internal laying, which I know I can't do anything about...
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    What is wrong with my chicken's head?

    I have a flock of 17, multiple breeds. I went away on vacation for two weeks (my neighbor was looking after them), and I found one of my cream leg bars in a pretty bad state. Lethargic, eye black and so crusted over I thought it had gotten pecked out, one wing drooping, and hard, dry, crusty...
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    Chickens wasting away and I'm stumped. Cocci?

    For about a month and a half, I've noticed many of my flock of 18 hens seem to be wasting away. Symptoms: severe weight loss, a variety of weird poops and diahrea, and hyperactivity, ravenous (they are eating feathers). Week one: rubbed them down with DE and thoroughly disinfected everything and...
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    Is this Marek's Disease?!

    Hi, all. I have been keeping chickens for 12 years and have never seen anything like this. I have a flock of 18 hens. Many of my chickens are sick, but they all have different symptoms. It started about two weeks ago: diarrhea, wasting, and pale combs in many of them. I dewormed, treated for...
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    Many of my 10 week old chicks are coughing

    I have 18 chicks and many of them are coughing and wheezing but have no other symptoms. We just had our first cold snap and I think that effected them. I successfully treated this in one of my hens with tetracycline hydrochloride (duramycin-10) from treating respiratory illness awhile ago, but...
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    Lavender Oprington pullet?

    Six week old vent sexed pullet from the hatchery looks like a cockerel. What do you think? Already big pink comb and waddles. This chick is brave, but not exhibiting rooster behavior. I have seen some oprington hens with giant combs and waddles.
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    Sexing six week old black copper Marans

    I ordered three vent sexed black tailed red maran pullets, and received three skunk colored chicks I am guessing are Black copper marans. I can live with it as long as they don’t end up being cocks. What do you think? Chick 1 I had always suspected of being a Cockerel until now. Very slow...
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    I got three black chicks that should have been yellow. What is this? Gender?

    I got three skunk colored chicks with feathered feet sent from the hatchery. I ordered three black tailed red marans (Chicks are yellow with feathered feet ), and I think I accidentally got three black copper marans. They are four weeks old. If they are black copper marans, this one a...
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    What is wrong with my cream leg bar chick?

    She is four weeks old. She is a third of the size of the other two cream like bar chicks I ordered from the hatchery. She has always been weak, and I have not really done anything special for her, but she has a will to live. And now that she has gotten this far, I’d like to see her make it. Her...
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    Why are my lavender Orpingtons’ feathers coming in curly?

    I have three lavender Oprington chicks from the hatchery. They are now three weeks old. Two of them are feathering out with curly feathers. What is going on? They are eating premium starter feed.
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    Let’s play the game. Sexing salmon fav

    I ordered a big batch of chicks from the hatchery. Boy did I get some surprises. They are all supposed to be pullets, but I don’t think they are. Here is one of my salmon faverolles at three weeks. What do you think? Pullet or cock? Feathers coming in laced with black, but still lots of brown. I...
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    Bearded hens love having beard stroked

    Has anyone else noticed that bearded chickens love having their beards stroked? I have many different breeds, and they all love it! Same thing with those with muffs.
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    13 weeks--are my silkie and golden laced Polish chicks pullets?

    I got two straight run chicks this year and have had them since the day they hatched (I did my best to pick females based off of some of the sexing hints I found online). Now they are 13 weeks old and look exactly like little hens. My polish's crest and saddle feathers are round, she has no...
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    Is this coccidiosis in 9 week old chick?

    One of my nine week old chicks is lethargic, puffy, and not eating. This is a photo of her last poop. Is this a cocci oocyte?
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    Can 8 week old chicks survive 35 degree night without heat lamp?

    Hi, I have 8 chicks that are all 8 and 9 weeks, plus two hens. They are all in the same roost and doing fine, no heat source. But tonight it will be unseasonably low, 35 degrees. The lowest it has been for our chicks has been 47. Our roost is drafty because I leave the door open so the chicks...
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    Five week old Polish chicken already has ridiculously huge crest… Does this mean male or female?

    My Polish chick is five weeks old today, and it has a huge crest! Can this help me determine gender yet?
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    Odd Bird golden laced Polish have birth defect?

    This is my first experience with Polish and also straight run. Our only Polish chick in a batch of eight chicks in the brooder (now 2.5 weeks) has been acting weird from the start (I got it when it was one day old). First it would sit down on its butt and roll over onto its back, and then...
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    What do I do with this cockerel?

    The guy at tractor supply said he could sex straight run Rd. Island reds with 95% accuracy. Ha! Now what do I do with this little guy? He’s currently 2.5 weeks old . We don’t want to get too attached.
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    Hi!

    My husband and two young daughters have kept chickens in our backyard for 6 years now. Have gone through ups and downs as we've learned about predators, etc, but mostly it has been fun. We only have two laying hens at the moment--a 7 year old Americana and a 4 year old dominique, but we have a...
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    Just for fun! What gender do you think my one week old silkie is?

    Puffball is a one week old blue silkie bantam. Has anyone out there raised multiple silkies and observed early behavior in conjunction with later finding out their gender? She is very active, always eating – Way more frequently than the eight other chicks Who are much larger, and though she...
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