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    Head twitching open mouth breathing at night- video for help with diagnosis

    I’m posting this video in the hopes that someone with experience can spot what’s going on. This is a 6 month old barred rock pullet who isn’t laying yet. She acts completely normal during the day except for two days ago when I found her with some yellowish poop on her butt and she was standing...
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    Heat stroke treatment and results

    I am in Maryland where we had heat index 105° yesterday. I have a 5 year old saphire gem/easter egger hen who was panting a lot through the day and I offered the usual ice treats iced electrolytes and cold snacks. I was very worried because overnight it was going to remain hot. I came to check...
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    Unable to tell if crop is just sour or impacted or both

    I have a 3 year old sapphire gem who was my most prolific layer. She stopped laying a month ago after laying a couple of misshaped eggs. I checked her regularly and she was never bound and acting normal so I hoped she’d come out of it. A few days ago she stopped being as aggressive about food...
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    Mystery weakness in 4 y/o black Australorp hen

    Of my small flock I have two black Australorp girls that are 4 years old. They both molted this fall after it was cold but one of them had a particularly hard molt. She’s never lost so many feathers or taken so long to feather back out. Well it almost seems she never recovered whereas her...
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    Feather pecking? What to do about it

    This has been going on for months and not getting any better. Huge patch of feathers missing. Looks like they’re broken off. I’ve seen some of them pecking her/eating her feathers. Attaching a pic of my sapphire gem who has been decimated by the other hens with pecking. Because of my setup I...
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    Misshapen eggs for months - what gives?

    I have a year old blue hen (breed is a bit of a mystery) who has been laying bumpy deformed eggs for months now. Every once in a while her egg is perfect but 90% of the time they are super bumpy. She eats her oyster shell, I’ve seen it. She’s very happy and healthy and lays consistently. She’s a...
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    Odd one out at night- pullet not allowed on the roost. Ideas?

    I got two chicks this spring to incorporate with my other two year-old hens. One of those now pullets is bigger than all the other 3 chickens now! Taller, more muscular. We really thought she was a roo! Anyway she gets picked on a lot despite her size and as of a couple weeks ago she started...
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    Young chicken laying and eating soft eggs!

    I got two chicks this spring, we think they are somewhere between Sapphire Easter Egger and Blue Andelusion. One is quite ahead of the game, large and laying big blue green eggs. She’s so big we thought she was a roo initially. The other is very tiny/petite and sweet and she’s been consistently...
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    First broody hen

    Hi all. I have my first broody hen and I’ve read all the advice as of this morning but I’m still not clear on something. The temps are getting super high in MD this week and I don’t want her sitting in the egg box heating up all day and not hydrating. I have only one other hen who lays but I’m...
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    Questions on introducing pullets to hens

    Hey all. I have just introduced new pullets to older hens. At first I had the pullets separated from the hens in their run as many suggested and I would put the together to free range in a small area in the yard. One hen was bullying the pullets very badly during those interactions. Gradually...
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    My favorite game. Is this a cockerel or pullet?

    Starting to see some feathers on this 12 week old that may be suspect. The neck feathers are much thinner than my other girls. Looking like hackle feathers maybe. And the tail feathers seem curled under a bit. This chicken also has much thicker legs than it’s counterparts. The breed was supposed...
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    Broken beak question

    I have a pullet who somehow managed to break the tip of her beak. We found her with it hanging off slightly. The tip was too cracked up to be glued back on so we gently clipped it off with nail clippers as many online resources said to. My question is what now? Please see the attached pic. In...
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    Dry pox? Something else?

    I have a hen who is very healthy and laying fine but these white dots just started showing up. I’m not seeing a ton of pics of dry pox looking like these but I saw a couple. Can anyone confirm that’s what these are? Is there really nothing to be done??
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    Two chicks sold as Sapphire Gem females. Barred Rock? Need some help IDing

    Hi all These are my two 3 wk old chicks, sold to me as Sapphire Gem by a general store that had about 13 different breeds come in on that busy morning. I am aware this breed is newer and can be tough to ID and sex especially if they aren't bred just so. I know maybe this will make it difficult...
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    Hen seems to be in pain, symptoms don't line up with egg bound. Help!

    I have a Black Australorp hen who is pacing constantly and erratically, and keeps going to her nesting box and scratching around in it loudly and furiously. She will thence out of the nesting box and go back in, very fast over and over. She will come down to the run and pace again then go back...
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    Hen crowing- is she in pain or just acting out?

    I had a sick hen a couple of weeks ago and we had to put her down. Now one of my remaining girls is doing this sort of crow off and on through the first half of the day. I'd love some feedback on this video. Is she calling out for her missing friend? Is she trying to act like a rooster...
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    Hen not responding to treatment. Gape worm? Link to video please help assess.

    I posted about my Austrlorp hen yesterday. None of my more seasoned chicken friends could offer suggestions and since this is our first sick hen we sprung $100 for the poultry vet. The vet prescribed Panacur for worms and digestion but said her lungs sounded normal. Nothing visible in her...
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    Help! Hen is making strange noise and clearly in trouble.

    One of my 3 Black Australorps is croaking/struggling to breath and acting very lethargic but also when she gets up she seems like she's in pain. She is breathing with her beak open like she does when its hot but its quite cool right now. Im not sure if she is egg bound or what. All the stuff I...
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    Pale comb on Black Australorp hen

    Hi all I may be overthinking this but I want to post anyway. I have 3 BA hens, maybe 9 months old. I noticed a molt happening about 6 weeks aho once it got colder here in Maryland but only one of my hens changed in appearance. Her comb went damn near grey by comparison to her sisters and her...
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    Small pale comb on Black Australorp

    I have 3 x 15 wk old Australorp ladies and two of them have their combs coming in very nicely and turning bright red. One of them, who happens to be my favorite, seems to be a bit stunted. She has always had a beak with less black pigment in it and her feathers aren't pure black, she has a bit...
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