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    Hen with no energy, please help

    Hello, we have a polish hen who is not doing very well. She has mites in her afro that I can't seem to get rid of but there isn't that many of them right now. She keeps one of her eyes closed and she seems like she has no energy. It is cold and snowy so we brought her inside and she was drinking...
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    Bumble foot

    Hello! I currently have 6 hens with bumble foot. They got into some wood chips and they were digging in them, i believe that is what causes it. What should I do? I watched a video on youtube of a man who pulled the things out with a tweezers but I had no luck. The hens are all still eating and...
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    Spraddle leg on 7 week old

    Hello! Our chicks are 7weeks old. Our last chick was hatched a couple days later than everyone else. A couple weeks ago one of his legs was being weird so when we left to go camping, we left him with our friends. He got worse and now it looks like spraddle leg for sure, is there anything i can...
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    sick chick

    Hi! Our chicks are 5 weeks old and one of them has become sick. We separated it from the flock. It has very week legs and he has never seemed super healthy but now it has gotten bad. His walking is very strange and he sometimes sneezes. He is willing to eat and drink just super week and his legs...
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    sick chick

    Hi! We have 5 baby chicks that are 4 weeks old. They have been very healthy but today we noticed one of them is acting a little weird. He keeps sneezing and wants to huddle under his mother. He also keeps his mouth open most of the time. It was very warm today here, almost 95 degrees does that...
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    PLEASE HELP 🚨 VERY HURT

    PLEASE HELP ME! My roosters got in a fight and one is very hurt!!! He lost a ton of blood and has a huge hole in his neck. Please help me
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    Does mom stay with babies??

    Hello, our hen is sitting on eggs and one is fully hatched and the rest are cracked a little bit. I moved her, her baby, and her eggs to the garage. Should I keep her with the babies? Right now we have a heat lamp on, should that be off? She looks hot. Thanks!
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    🚨hatching egg

    Hello! We have had chickens for just under a year and one of our hens went broody. We let her keep the eggs just to see what would happen. About half way through the incubation, I candled the eggs and got rid of about half of them as they weren't developed. ( I cracked them and was correct)...
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    🚨please help- hen losing weight

    Hi so I have noticed a hen of ours losing a lot of weight. I'm not sure why this is as I am nee to having chickens. She will be a year old in July and her breed is an olive egger. I'm assuming she has stopped laying eggs because of this as we are getting less now. Today, I took her with me and...
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    sick chicken?

    Hi! Yesterday I noticed one of my olive eggers seemed pretty light in weight. Her chirp/cluck seems light is has gone a lot lower in pitched as well. Do you have any idea what could be wrong with her? Should we quarantine her from the rest of the flock? Are there medications we should be giving her?
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    Frostbite

    Hi! I have made a post before about frostbite but I have a worse case now. I will include pictures. This rooster is very small, less than a pound. What should we do? I know everyone says to let it be, but is there anything I can do the help this? All help is appreciated as this is our first time...
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    frostbite?

    Hi! It has been cold ( single digits) here so we thing it is frostbite that our rooster has. It has started to spread even though we put Vaseline on it. I just put on some Vetericyn because it says that helps. What should I do? Here is a picture:
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    Cold weather?

    Hi! We have 12 chickens and an 8x8 coop that is 6ft tall. We are going to be having some nights in the single digits in the next week or so and I was wondering if we should heat the coop at all. I know that this is dangerous which is why we haven't been doing this but I am worried about them. My...
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    🚨HELP EMERGENCY 🚨

    HELP! we are new to having chickens and our roosters fought and one got very hurt. He only has and injury on his wattle but it is bleeding a lit. i put corn starch on it to help the bleeding to stop what should I do? Here is a picture basically everything with cornstartch is and open wound...
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    Bedding

    Hi! We have some extra seeding hay for planting, could we use that for chicken/duck bedding? It seems like just normal hay but I want to make sure that that's ok to do, thanks!
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    Pictures of my flock

    Hi! I love my chickens very much so I decided to post pictures of them below! Hope you enjoy our little flock
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    duck feet

    Hello! We have two khaki Kampbell ducks who are free range. We do get snow here are we have just a little bit on the ground right now. They stay warm but I'm a little worried about their feet. They have acess to a little house with hay to keep them warm but they don't go in. Their feet always...
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    🚨emergency! chicken nail 🚨

    Hi! One of our hens lost a bit of toe nail and it is bleeding a lot! When I hold paper towel on it it slows down but it starts dripping blood again once I take it off. It is pretty cold and snowing here but I'm not sure if you need to know that. We don't know what to do because it won't stop...
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    Comb problem? (i'm worried)

    Hello! We are new to having chickens. We have a tiny little bantam rooster who is very sweet. He is pretty aggressive to make up for his size. I just noticed today that his comb is a little purple. Its not cold so that isn't the issue. I was just wondering what could cause this and if i should...
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    Wing feathers peeling?

    Hi! I have a bantam Cochin frizzle who has some strange things on her wings. The main part kind of like the stem of her wing is there the the feathers and soft part is gone. We don't know why this could be happening here are some pictures. Also, she is acting totally fine.
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