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    Help. Chicken very sick and pooping maggots!

    Hello. My elderly buff orpington has been having some issues. Last week I noticed yolk coming out of her behind... There's been a couple of shellless eggs too. She's had a pretty muckky butt this week. This morning she's all hunched up and has poop all over her. It's coming out like brown...
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    Is my hen a roo?

    This white hen i have has an awfully red comb and it's tail is looking suspicious. It's about 20 weeks old
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    6 week old barnyard mix hatch needs help with sexing

    Hello, we hatched these from a box of eggs off Craigslist. They're a barnyard mix which makes it difficult because I don't know what breed I'm looking at to know if it's normal for them to have big combs. Here's my guess... what do you think? #1 - Roo #2 - Roo... but I Really want it to be...
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    6 month fainting buck has huge stomach... looks like twins!

    This is Lightning... he's definitely a motivated eater but his stomach is HUGE!! They go out on pasture all day and we give them a handful of grain each in the morning. He's had this big belly for a few weeks... it's a lot worse when they come in from the pasture at night. It's as tight as...
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    Is partridge feathering barred?

    Hello, I'm thinking about trying to breed black sexlink Cochins with a red roo and barred hen. I would like to get partridge and birchen hens, would either of these breed sexlinks?
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    Can I recover from Mareks?

    I can't even begin to tell you how bad this is ... We had approximately 70 chickens, mostly this year's hatchings ... 3 new built coops, all new equipment, just ran electric and water to the coops...and poof! Marek's! I took some dead ones to get necropsy and had it confirmed. To start with I...
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    Worms? Or something else?

    I have a few young roosters about 14 weeks old who have very pale combs and legs. They are very skinny but seem to eat well. They seem a little lethargic maybe but not terribly noticeable. I have also noticed that their butts are a little messy, not terrible but just not very clean. They don't...
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    POOP ISSUES...what is this???

    I found this in the grass...no idea who's it is but is that something I should worry about?!!!
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    Easter Egger boy or girl? 8 weeks old

    This is my 8 week old EE. My son wants this one to be his pet but I'm worried it's a roo ...any thoughts?
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    12-14 week old Lavender Orpington gender help please!

    I have 4 lavender Orpingtons between 12-14 weeks old. I'm hoping for at least one female!! #1: hoping for a female:fl #2 #3 &4
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    Is this pointed or rounded sickle feathers? 9 weeks old

    This chick is 9 weeks old and has female coloring but a red comb...is this pointed sickles too? Easter egger This is also 9 weeks old olive egger... very female coloring but are these pointed sickles?
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    8 week silkie with red poop!

    I thought my silkie chicks were healthy and then I saw one poop!! Should I worry?
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    Hen lethargic, not laying and VERY skinny

    A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my hens wasn't very active but she seemed to be eating and drinking and behaving normal...then she started just standing around, then her tail dropped...now her wings have dropped. I felt her all over today and she's VERY skinny...all bones. She's still...
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    Egg has HUGE glob of unknown stuff in it!

    This egg comes from a chicken I just got (see the story in the link below). I'm seeing something that looks like a spider web in that glob of stuff ... what on earth?!!! I'm hoping this is normal and it's not some nasty worms...
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    Poor flock has been plucked by too many roosters!

    Last night I went to buy what I thought was going to be a rooster and 3 hens. I was expecting to see healthy 1.5 year old birds.... but I was SHOCKED!! These chickens were bare!! They have been living in a shed with 2 hens per rooster ..I think they had 15 roos and 30 hens originally! The...
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    Poor flock has been plucked by too many roosters!

    Last night I went to buy what I thought was going to be a rooster and 3 hens. I was expecting to see healthy 1.5 year old birds.... but I was SHOCKED!! These chickens were bare!! They have been living in a shed with 2 hens per rooster ..I think they had 15 roos and 30 hens originally! The...
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    Easter and olive egger Sexing help needed.

    Please help me sex these. I was under the impression that dark red wing patches indicated males ...now I'm seeing dark red in the barred feathered chicks... #1 - 4 week old. #2 - 4 week old. #3 - 4 week old #4 - 6 week old
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    Is this Olive egger a boy?

    He's 4 weeks old
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    Week! Is this a worm?!!

    I just posted on the egg laying post because I had some pale yolks with dark spots ...now I just found this and I'm freeking out! Is this a worm?!! And what on earth should I do about it?!!
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    Eggs with dark spots in the yolk

    One of my chickens is laying eggs with a pale yolk and has dark spots in it. Any idea what this is.
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