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    Inherited some chickens - all seem to have same issues advice appreciated

    I have inherited 6 birds from someone who no longer wanted them and hadn't been looking after them great. They all seem to have bare abdomens and smelly messy vents. I have attached a photo. Is this vent gleet? They seem mostly active but I've only had them 12 hours so not watched them for...
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    Cream legbar stopped laying a week ago and now done a funny poop - worms?

    Do people think I need to be worming everyone? She usually lays most days so it's strange she isn't. We have had some hot weather but none of the others stopped laying. Her comb seems a little pale but she's eating and drinking.
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    1 day old chick - splay leg or something else

    I have a day old chick who doesn't stand just scoots and flap about on it's tummy. Is this splay leg or could it be something else - one of it's feet seems a bit twisted. It hatched by itself.
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    Eggs with aircells on side - how best to position for hatch?

    I have 2 eggs from a batch of 6 which were a long time in the post and took a week to get to me. Right now these 2 are developing and wriggling but air cells come from the fat end of the egg right down one side. I am wondering which is the best way to position them for hatching?
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    Am I right I have a boy and girl here?

    I have 2 gold laced bantam wyandottes hatched 16th June so now 8 weeks old - I need to sell them as I don't have permanent place for them to live as I have too many chickens including 3 cockerels at the moment! Am I right I have a boy and a girl, just want to be sure I advertise them right...
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    Tried to hatch eggs 3 times from my flock but nothing fertile - what am I doing wrong?

    Evening, I am wanting some advice please! I have a gold laced bantam wyandotte cockerel (1 year old) and 3 gold laced bantam wyandotte hens (approx. 2 years) and 2x barnevelders, 1x cream crested legbar, and a serama pair... oh and a female emden goose. I am wanting to hatch the wyandottes'...
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    Legbar with one foot curled under struggles to get around - vitamin B2 deficiency?

    My legbar showed signs of being lame saturday but by yesterday was struggling to get around and one foot completely curled under so she was walking on the top of it if she had to. Spending most time curled up. Today I've ground up B2 vitamin and put it in egg, food and water. She seems...
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    8 month cockerel lost an eye in a fight?

    I have two wyandotte bantam cockerels who have existed quite happily together until yesterday. Early this morning they have fought in earnest and my beautiful gold laced has been left in a bad way. Please can someone look at the photos and tell me what is the best I can do to help him. He is...
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    Sick hen doing strange green poo

    Please can anyone help with what is wrong with my hen. For a couple of days she has been off it, not interested in food or drink. Yesterday found her sat in coop. Have isolated her. Shes just hunched up, listless - walks around a bit and did a poo like this...
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    Could this be because of mites?

    I have been checking my hens quite thoroughly as they are not laying and wondered if it could be down to mites. Not seen anything untoward until today I found this bare kind of patch on one of my silver pencilled wyandottes. What do you people think?
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    Hen's vent looks strange?

    Hello - looking for some advice. I have a bantam wyandotte who has a rather bare bottom. I had a good look at her yesterday and couldn't see any sign of mites or lice, but dusted her with DE. She has a lot of new feathers coming in by the looks. But today I notice that her vent looks a bit...
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    19 week bantam wyandotte - pullet?

    As the title says :D Want to be sure as if a roo, it'll have to go.
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    Why haven't we had any eggs at all for a month?

    Please can someone help as we are not getting any eggs at all any more. Our little flock consists of a serama cockerel and hen, 3 pencilled wyandottes, one buff wyandotte and a buff laced wyandotte. Earlier this spring we hatched 2 wyandottes from bought eggs and 5 seramas from our seramas but...
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    Silver laced bantam wyandotte - pullet or cockerel?

    I have two wyandotte bantam 13 week olds - I was thinking the gold was pullet and the silver was cockerel, but now I'm not sure. Looking for the experts on here to let me know! Thanks in advance.
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    Momma hen attacking rest of flock although laying and chicks are 8 weeks old

    I have a problem in that my momma hen hatched out 2 chicks 8 weeks ago and and laid a egg yesterday and isn't looking after her chicks really any more. We have a large fenced run divided into two and she has been in one half with her chicks and the other half has housed the main flock. The...
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    Are these eggs fertile?

    Just cracked these for scrambled egg and wonder if they're fertile? I am really hoping they are as from my only serama hen. I tried incubating from her eggs a couple of weeks ago but nothing developed.
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    5.5 week bantam wyandottes - girl and boy?

    I have two bantam wyandotte chicks about 5.5 weeks old. Am very impatient to know what gender they are!! Any ideas? I'm fairly sure the silver is a boy, please don't tell me I have 2 boys!
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    3.5 week chicks - bantam laced wyandotte

    Is it possible to tell genders yet? There are 3 chicks, 1x silver and 2x gold.
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    Help Serama hen ill can't seem to walk and has a yellowy string coming out of her

    I have a few hens and never had one ill so I'm panicking. When I let her out this morning she couldn't walk properly kept falling to the side and when I checked her she has a yellowy brown string coming out of her. Have brought her inside with food and water but she's very still and totally...
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    Air sac size and lockdown question

    I have 3 gold laced wyandotte bantam eggs in my incubator and this evening in theory they should go into lockdown day 18 but I'm worried the air sacs aren't very big and haven't been increasing in size. My humidity was around 40% until day 10 when I was worried they weren't growing and so...
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