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    Sour Crop/Impaction?

    Help! My Top roo is no longer Top Roo and recently really slowed down (so whatever happened, seems gradual) In retrospect, I think he's been moving his head around kind of funny lately (like something's stuck. I am not the chicken keeper, my daughter is, so I don't have more observations than...
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    How long blockage go through?

    We brought one of our 8-9 month old Buff Orpington hens into the people house Thursday morning. She had been a little slow and not interested in food for a couple days (according to my chicken girl). When I examined her Thursday morning she had a golf ball sized lump in her crop. I massaged...
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    Do chickens peck plastic sheet/tarps?

    Just ordered a Farmtek hoop building. Has polyproplene cover - so not really plastic sheet, but close. Ends will be chicken wire. We are intending to use it for their winter snow free run (live in syracuse, ny). Do I need to run some chicken wire around the inside of the base so they...
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    Tell me about my 12wk bantam sweetie-pie, please!

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    Is this a crow?

    We have an EE and a bunch of Orpingtons, all the same approximate age (12 weeks). The EE is supposed to be a hen (based on wing feather examination by breeder at one day). I've put pictures out here and been told definitely both that she is a hen and that she is a rooster, I've examined her...
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    Why peck red?

    Okay, I've done some googling and some searching on the forums and I haven't found this discussed. I'm thinking I just missed it? Why are chickens attracted to red? We had this discussion at the table last night - what possible adaptation would this be? Eating bloody carcasses? I noticed...
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    Bully/Recovery - Is this a good plan?

    Hi - I have a couple dozen Buff Orps (half roos/hens), an Ameraucana supposed hen, might be roo, and two mixed bantam hens. They are all approximately 10 weeks old. Some had an unidentified illness (which finally responded to Duramycin, but that's another story) and I have a few survivors -...
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    Airsacculitis

    I think my 8 week old chicks may have this. I had some problems with them failing (listless, lose weight and some die). They never had respiratory symptoms, but so far the only thing that seems to have remotely worked is Duramycin-10. I had also tried Wazine - but never saw any worms. I have...
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    Puzzle - Please help!

    Hi - I have a story to tell and need advice as to what happened and if it will affect the rest of my flock, or how long until I know? I am a new chicken owner. Brand new chicken housing. No chickens at property ever (I'm really pretty certain). Chickens are in a coop with pine shavings and...
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    How many chickens - more?

    Oh help - reading a million different recommendations and very confused. My new coop is 8 by 6. On one long wall is a roost with wire mesh under it. The wire mesh starts just under the roost- at about 2 feet high- near the wall and extends down to the floor. This area of mesh takes up...
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