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    3-year old chicken found free ranging with prolaspsed vent.

    We went to our books and they only say to put on some hydrocortisone cream and don't tell us much of anything else. What should we do? I put on sanitary gloves and attempted to gently squeeze all the stool out of it and try to push it back in, but nothing worked. I know you guys here will help...
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    We need help with our runt White Broad Breasted chick. I think it's dying.

    When we brought them home, all 4 were the same size. Over time 3 grew bigger and one remained smaller. We assumed the big ones were males and the little one a female. Now it has become obvious that it is sick and dying, but we don't know what from or what to do to help it. We don't know if it is...
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    1-year old egg layer has water belly. Lost 3-year old just 2 weeks ago to water belly. Can this be connected/spread through the flock?

    OK, back again needing more help. We discovered one of our youngest egg-laying hens now has water belly. I wanted to find out if this might any way be connected so we can fix things before more and more start dropping. We have 3 generations of hens. The last one with water belly was 3 years old...
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    Our daughter's favorite chicken (out of 44) is sick. Please help me save her!

    I've looked through all our chicken books and none seem to address this. Basically her belly and back end feel like a water balloon. The books said to feel for a stuck egg and I only feel what a water balloon feels like. Nothing hard inside. She is seeping poop/pee. I'm thinking that "balloon"...
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    Where can I buy a goose friend for our lonely goose in Pennsylvania?

    I know we've had chicks sent to us in the mail, and both experiences were positive. Where do I look for geese to buy? I've read on this forum where a lone goose needs another goose "friend" as ducks and chickens are not replacements. Our goose DOES go everywhere on the property with our eight...
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    Question about Canada goose laying eggs with no male around.

    We have a Canada goose who was abandoned by her parents when a cat caused damage to her eye when she was a few days old. She is "wild" and free to leave at any time (she flew off once before [over a year ago] and walked back home), but she chooses to remain on our acreage and hangs out with our...
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    How to hand feed a severe crossbeak 5-week old chick?

    Her bottom beak is as far to the right as it can possibly go. She uses her top beak to peck at food but we don't see how she can even pick anything up. I'm not sure if she's able to drink water. She HAS been growing, so she must be getting something, but this week we've noticed the other hens...
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    How old for chicks before we can add CORID amprolium to their water?

    This is our second batch of chicks. With the first batch, we lost one we think to Coccidiosis. She was maybe 2 months old. Now with this batch my kids are raising, they let me know one seems slower to walk around than the rest. They are a week old. I remember that chick we lost last year started...
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    We just accidentally ordered from The Chick Hatchery. Anyone have experience with them?

    Our first batch of chicks came on June 1, 2018 from The Poultry Hatchery in NY. They were highly recommended by many experienced friends around the US who have raised chickens. We had a great experience with them and planned to get more this year. They have been reworking their website and were...
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    Hawk versus Rooster. Does this happen? What makes a "good" rooster?

    We have 16 hens and 1 rooster. I have read on here about people saying to keep your rooster if he is a "good" rooster. What makes him good or bad? We ordered all pullets, but were sent 2 extras that we did not even pay for. One ended up being a rooster. I believe he is a Welsummer, but my family...
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    We've lost a laying henny penny. Where could she be?

    On Monday I added two roosts and four new nesting boxes to their coop. We have 17 hens, a rooster, and seven of the hens are currently laying. They were all born around May 31st of this year, so about seven months old each. We were helping each of the layers understand that these are their new...
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    Have we damned ourselves to eternal chicken herding/guarding?

    We love our chickens as pets (they all have names!) and would never want to lose any of them, though we understand this is inevitable. However, we are doing our best to keep them safe, protected, healthy, happy and ALIVE for as long as possible. We have four young kiddos who have raised these...
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