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    1 yo Speckled Sussex hen with puffy "balloon" crop

    She started acting strange a couple of days ago with some head/neck twitching. Her crop feels like a balloon full of air, we can't feel anything in it. She isn't eating at all and not drinking much, though she did pass droppings this morning. Just in case it's related, I've been giving the...
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    8 month old hen broody for weeks but not laying

    we raised 7 hens from day-old chicks. All are laying except one, our partridge cochin. She's been glued to the nesting box for at least two months now, but as far as I know she's never laid an egg, nor is she sitting on other eggs. She's not egg bound, but I've read about false layers, whose...
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    Housing a feral cat inside the chicken run for rodent control?

    My land is a certified wildlife habitat and I have many birds, rabbits, fox, deer and more species that live here, so just having "barn cats" on the property is too much of a danger to my wildlife population. I've kept chickens for 16 years, in a predator-proof run and coop (never been breached...
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    Young hen not active, sick?

    8 month old partridge cochan, raised from day-old chick, with 6 other chicks (joining my existing flock of 21). She sequestered herself in one of the nesting boxes 3-4 days ago and hasn't show any interest in normal activities since. I pull her out in the mornings and I've seen her eat a little...
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    Adopted rooster aggressive toward flock

    We have 8 older hens plus 7 that are 4 months old (raised from day-old chicks), 4 bantam hens and 6 bantam roosters, and one giant (think "turkey-sized") rooster. All hand raised by us and all are calm, no pecking or fighting at all. Our big rooster is now old and lame, so we just adopted a 4...
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    Chick not eating or drinking, lethargic

    we received 24 chicks this Wednesday morning, all have been active, eating/drinking/pooping until today. One (we believe it is a Cuckoo Maran) is acting lethargic, not eating or drinking this afternoon. We noticed she has been straining a little while pooping and this morning appeared to have...
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    2 year old New Hampshire Red hen not eating

    She and the rest of our other 12 hens and 3 roosters have been healthy.....I feed them fermented organic grain mix every morning and they have soy-free pellets available continually. She may be eating pellets when I'm not watching, but her craw is empty, her rump is clean (no poop), she's losing...
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    Lethargic, wasting 3 mo old hen

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