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    Slab Sided Eggs for Months

    Hi there. I have a 2 yr old marans who has been laying every other day until her molt this year. Prior to her molt I noticed she had started laying slab sided eggs. One side would also be so thin that often times I would see that the egg had a crack in it before pulling it out of the nest box...
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    Milky White Droppings, No Symptoms

    Hello! Any insight on this poop? None of my flock is showing any symptoms of sickness and I've been noticing it for a while. There are normal droppings after this happens.
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    Breaking Broody - Am I Doing It Right?

    Hello! I have my very first broody... she's a 9.5 month old Ameracauna. I'm choosing to go with the broody cage to stop her broodiness. Simple removal worked yesterday but not today. I placed her in a slightly elevated (bricks underneath) small crate in the run (under the elevated coop) with...
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    Lethargic Hen - Running Out of Ideas

    Summary: I have a 7.5 month old Cream Legbar, Henrietta (Heni). She sits on the ground all day napping or stands with her feathers puffed out. She eats a little and drinks a little mostly with my assistance. She will move around when disturbed and looks ok, but then eventually goes back to...
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    Chickens Sick WITH Salmonella - Looking for More Info

    Hello! I'm struggling to find any information regarding chickens that are sick with Salmonella. I'm finding a lot of articles about people getting sick or practicing good hygiene, but that's not what I'm looking for. What symptoms do chickens show if they are sick with it? How does it get...
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    Lethargic, not eating much but drinking a lot, squirted poop that was mostly clear with some green mush

    Been searching online and not finding much so looking for some help here. My chicken is pretty lethargic. She stands around in the run, not really moving much. When I let her free range, she pecks a little but mostly tries to nap. She's at the bottom of the pecking order so I know she never...
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    General excitement and question on weird egg laying

    My chicks hatched on April 27th, and yesterday on November 26th (just shy of 7 months), my Amercauna laid her very first egg! I've never seen a blue egg in real life and it is even prettier than in pictures. Wow!! Such a great Thanksgiving surprise and I'm still sooo happy about it! One of my...
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    Defective Chicken? Laid first egg and no 2nd egg in 1 month

    Hello! I have heard that when chickens first start to lay, their systems can act a little strange. Is it normal that my hen laid 1 egg on Sept 27 and it's almost been a month and still no 2nd egg? What's going on and is there anything I can do to help? Thanks!
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    Crusty wattle

    Is this dirt or something to be concerned about..
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    Water Gun Vs The Bully

    Had anyone tried to use a water gun to correct bullying? Does it work? If it did, how long did it take to notice a difference? I'm dealing with 2 bullies in my flock of 5. They (red sex link and speckled sussex) are consistently beating up on the small one (cream legbar). Last week they drew...
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    Lump above crop while eating

    Good morning! I have a 5 month old cream legbar that has been getting some extra TLC while overcoming what was most likely a respiratory infection. She's at the bottom of the pecking order so I placed her in the coop this morning to eat and kept the other chickens at bay. She didnt eat much last...
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    Chicken wheezing non stop, respiratory, worms, or something else?

    On Thursday we mowed the lawn and threw a lot of dust in the air since there isnt any grass right next to the coop. Friday after work I noticed my 5 month old chicken wheezing almost like an accordion and occasionally barks (see video). We also had a slight increase in temperature after several...
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    5 month old chicken barking, head shaking, wheezing sound

    Please advise. My chicken is consistently wheezing and occasionally barks and shakes her head. I'll post a video as soon as I can. Check for blockage? Deworming? With what? And where do I get it?
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    Say it aint so.. could this be another roo from MPC. Speckled sussex.

    My chicks are at 6 weeks and the top hen (Carole Baskin the Speckled Sussex) is showing some pink at the base of her comb. What do you guys think? These are from MPC.
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    Is it too hot to move chicks outside?

    Can it be too hot to move chicks outside? Temperatures are expected to reach 100 today.
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    Do chickens understand "no"?

    Do chickens understand "no" and can it be used to stop them from pecking another chick?
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    6 week old chick intro after -1 roo

    Hello! Today we rehomed our 6 week old roo. He was pretty aggresive with the other chicks and would chase the others at random. Now that he is gone, we're planning on adding in our recovered sick chick (she's still half the size of the rest) and moving them all outside (now a total of 5 chicks)...
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    5 Week Old Chick Crowing?? Is Sheila a Shawn??

    My Female Anocona from MPC started making weird noises in the morning yesterday and again today. I grabbed a video of it, the link is below. Is she crowing because she is a he??? It is possible to tell this at 4.5 weeks (5 weeks old on Monday)? I had read online that hens will take on...
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    Reintroducing a Seperated Sick Chick

    I'm not sure where to begin without typing a novel... so simple question is: how do I properly introduce a recovered chick that was seperated for 3 weeks? The big girls (5 of them, BCM, Red Sexlink, Aconona, etc) are in a large cardboard box brooder and the almost-recovered-chick, Henrietta...
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    Neurological, Respiratory Infection, or Splay Leg? Cull or not

    It's been a rough day deciding if we should cull our first baby chick. Anyone know if this leg extension tendency is from splay leg or something neurological? Does splay leg cause lethargy?
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