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    Help! Trouble breathing!!

    Help! I just encountered a new thing -- all of a sudden I became aware that Ladybug was making this very weird noise -- like a honk or bray -- it's like something is stuck in her breathing tube. It's not going away and gets worse when she's trying to talk. It's almost like the passage from her...
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    hen with one spur growing?

    Okay, so I have a GLW with bumblefoot. I had been treating her last year with GSE, herbs and epsom salts foot soaks. She got her feet wrapped up with vetwrap and she appeared to be well in every other way -- lays regularly, normal poops, scratching around, etc. But over the winter when I wasn't...
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    Three "cocktail onion" eggs on the poop board

    So one of my hens laid three "cocktail onions" on the roost last night. That is what they looked like. They were soft shelled eggs with no yolks. Two of them were connected and one was misshapen -- coming to a point where it connected to the other. I think the culprit was one of my two Buff...
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    too heavy molt?????

    Hello -- this is my second experience with molting and one of my B.O.s is molting like crazy and fast!!!! She is losing all kinds of feathers all at once. Her bottom is bald. Her wings look awful and she is not eating. She is obviously uncomfortable but will only nibble at food here and there. I...
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    Help! Crop issue

    Hello, My 1 year old B.O. Mama Pajama has been having quite a time of it. She hasn't laid since 3/27 and when she did it was 2 eggs on the poop board at night -- one hard and one soft. Her abdomen was swollen and I feared internal laying. She and her sister Nicky who was laying giant misshapen...
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    egg bound girl

    Hey there, Today one of my Buff Orps was egg bound. She came out of the nesting box after being in for quite a while and was cackling like she had laid an egg. I noticed that she was carrying her rear end really low to the ground as she walked. I could see her straining and panting and thought...
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    egg bound

    Hey there, Today one of my Buff Orps was egg bound. She came out of the nesting box after being in for quite a while and was cackling like she had laid an egg. I noticed that she was carrying her rear end really low to the ground as she walked. I could see her straining and panting and thought...
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    Two eggs from one pullet on poop board

    Hello! My big (fat) Buff Orp Mama Pajama (she'll be a hen on 4/21) -- top of the pecking order-- has been going several days to weeks without laying. Twice she has laid two eggs on the poop board at night after her hiatus. One of the eggs is soft and one is normal. She doesn't act egg bound when...
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    will my isolated hen lay eggs and how do I transition her back outside

    Do chickens lay eggs when they are being isolated from the flock and is a dog carrier on the floor a good enough nesting box to provide them? I've isolated my 7 month old GLW, Maude, for 3 days. She is getting better after a sluggish crop incident. She's spending the nights in a smallish rabbit...
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    how long to keep hen in after illness?????

    Hello, Maude just had a crop issue. It wasn't way hard and big nor smelly/squishy but was moldable, I could feel long hay strands in it and it wouldn't empty overnite. This was only the case for a few days. I brought her in on Saturday after observing her Friday (listless, not eating, went to...
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    Please Help! Chicken not drinking

    Hello, My 7 month old GLW, Maude, has a case of crop impaction ( I think). She gets ACV in her water, organic layer crumbles, free ranges during the day and we have been mulching our garden with hay and straw. She was eating crumbles out of my hand on Thursday and by Friday wanted no food and...
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    I saw Nicky lay her egg!!!!

    Yesterday I actually got to see my hen lay an egg. I was going into the coop to clean it and I saw Nicolette in her nesting box all puffed up and in a slight squat. I had noticed her in there about a half an hour before quietly sitting to one side of the box. I have fake eggs in there to give...
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    bedding/DE ?????s

    Hello! I am very new -- I have six 13 week old chickens who are happily playing in their 15 x 7 foot run and 9 x 6 foot coop and foraging in my yard for several hours a day (supervised so they don't tear up the garden and get carried away by hawks). I was interested in doing the Deep Litter...
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    do turkey vultures eat live chickens?

    Hi, I live where there are a lot of turkey vultures. I thought they only ate dead things -- being vultures and all -- but now I'm feeling paranoid as I see them flying over my yard when my girls are out foraging...
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    is rabbit poo okay for chickens to eat

    I have six 12 week old chicks who are beginning to forage in the yard. They love the pile of hay that I use as mulch around plants. It's hay from my houserabbit's litterbox -- oat, wheat, barley mix. Every now and then I see one of the girls gulping down a round brown thing -- I finally figured...
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    Help! hurt beak -- 10 week old chick

    I hope someone can help me. My 10 week old girl, George, has hurt her beak. I'm pretty sure she did it flying into the chicken wire fence around her run when I went in to rake the poo (I won't be doing that again with them in the run ). She's the skittish one to begin with. She is acting fine...
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    DE dusty!!!

    I am really into preventing health issues and like the idea of DE to protect against mites, lice, worms, etc. I do put ACV in my girls' water but when I sprinkled the DE in the coop and raked it into the bedding the air in the coop was unbearably dusty. MY sinuses really hurts and my friends...
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    toxic plants list

    Has anyone else freaked when checking out the link on the treats page for toxic plants? You go to this site that lists plants that are in abundance in my yard like buttercup, sheep sorrel, garlic, onions, amaranth, brassicas, chickweed etc. I mean, how does anyone ever let the chickens free...
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    Is Quinoa seed okay to feed my 7 week old girls?

    I know that people include quinoa in homemade feeds for chickens. I have a bunch that I harvested from last year's garden -- can I give it to my 7 week old babies? Also, how do you get your chicks to start eating slugs and worms? Mine look at them like they're poisonous!
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    infirmary/nursery in coop????

    Hello! I am a new chick mom and am (of course) not done with the coop -- my chicks are 4 weeks old and getting bigger!!! Everything's done except the roosts, nesting boxes and separate space for sick hens or future mamas. I read somewhere and can't find it now that I should have a separate space...
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