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    Where are the hens laying their eggs?

    I have three ex-battery hens who are about 2 years old and a five year old hand raised hen who have not laid an egg for at least a couple of months now! Or they are laying somewhere I cannot find! I have other hens and they are laying fine (albeit not always in the hen house, sometimes in the...
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    Broody Hen - still sitting on an empty nest for 4 weeks!

    Any advice grateful received. I have a cream leg bar that showed some broodiness about 4 weeks or so ago. I moved all eggs, hoping this would break the cycle, however she continues to sit every day, all day on an empty nest! She comes out once a day for food etc, but goes straight back to her...
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    Water Belly Help

    Hi all, I have a cream legbar hen aged 1 year. I noticed she doesn't stray far from the coop, but seems happy enough with her own company. I also noticed she slightly waddled as she walked - her feet are a bit crooked so thought it may be that until I gave her a check and felt that her lower...
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    7 week old Chick and Mum - safety issues!

    Hi all, I have a hen with her 7 week old chick. The chick is virtually fully feathered and they have been in a separate housing for the last few weeks. My set up is that they have their own house and run within the existing hen area. This means for everyday of the chicks life she has been in...
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    Advice please on moving a Chick and Hen to a safer place ...

    I have a hen with her recently hatched chick 🐣 (it's about 2 - 3 days old). The hen is still sitting on a nest (rubber eggs only so they won't hatch), I need to move her to a new safer place for her to raise her one chick! However she is very protective and I don't know the best way to move...
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    Bumblefoot Help

    I have a large (& quite heavy) hen and noticed she had Bumblefoot at the end of April this year. Since then I tried to remove what I could inc. any hard yellow stuff, then I have regularly been bathing it in Epsom salts, spraying it with Vetericyn and adding an antibacterial and antiseptic...
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    Small pebble embedded under chicken's foot!

    Hi, I am looking for advice regarding a discovery on one of my hens (I seem to be experiencing a lot of different conditions with different hens!). I was checking her feet (she has the kind of feet where mud gets stuck in the skin in between her toes and every now and then, I flip it out...
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    Penguin Stance

    Hi all, I am looking for advice from anyone who has experienced a hen with Egg Yolk Peritionitis. Background - Blondie is around 4/5 years old and she stopped laying about 2 months ago. She went quite weak about the time she stopped laying (She wasn't egg bound - I checked that first) and...
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    New Point of Lay Hen - Pale/Wattle turned pale .....

    Hello all, I am hoping someone can help me. I recently introduced three new point of lay hens to a small existing flock of two hens (along with a new Cockerel). They live in a paddock which they share with two pygmy goats. All was going well - the newbies seemed to intergrate ok and often...
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    Hen making a strange noise!

    One of my hens has started to make a strange noise! It sounds involuntary, loud and frequent. It seems to be more than a sneeze I think! She is well otherwise, eating, laying, wandering around normally etc. I recently wormed the girls just in case (as I wondered if it was her breathing or...
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    Is this Bumblefoot?

    Hello, I noticed a swelling between my Rooster's toes and had a look underneath to see if it was bumblefoot. I cleaned it up and started to investigate. When I push his underneath pad aside, I removed a hardish lump of dirt and tried to clear up the area, but there wasn't really any pus coming...
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    Crooked / Wry Neck

    Hi all, about 7 weeks ago, one of my hens was attacked by dogs. Her external injuries healed really well and after a couple of weeks I put her back in the flock, but a day or two later I noticed she developed a crooked neck (I presume from her injuries during hte attack). I've been treating...
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