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    Remembering our sweet flock

    We recently had to put down our two remaining hens. Our girls all meant the world to me, and I miss them so much already. I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but I just wanted to memorialize all five of our sweet girls who are now gone. We lost our first one to Mareks 3 years ago when...
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    How to handle having to cull flock?

    We have been advised to consider culling our flock. We just have two hens who are 4.5 years old. Our sweet buff silkie Kitka (which means ponytail in Polish) and our salmon faverolles Pancake. They are our sweet little pets. We love their cooing noises and funny antics. Our cochin recently...
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    My chicken had avian mycobacteriosis/tuberculosis! What should we do?

    Our necropsy came back that our chicken had avian mycobacteriosis. I'm going to call the lab, but does anyone have experience with this? Do we need to cull our flock? Could I have TB from them?
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    Necropsy Interpretation Help

    We just got a necropsy back for our chicken. It says the results were inconclusive and that she was very thin. Does anyone know what could have caused this? I feel bad that we could have helped her and done more. She ate all the 20% protein feed all time and we gave her eggs to help bulk her...
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    We lost our hen today

    I just wanted to share a bit about our sweet hen Jasmine. She was a lavender orpington who was 4 years old. We called her our fluffy cloud. She was the biggest of our hens and the sweetest too. She had the prettiest coo and was so gentle to everyone. I noticed that she had a respiratory...
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    Chicken safety and newborn

    Does anyone have any tips about keeping newborns and small ones? My husband and I are preparing our home for a baby. We have a 1/4 lot and 4 4 year old hens I love. I’m terrified of our baby getting sick from the chickens. I had ecoli when I was 4 and almost died, so I am extra nervous about...
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    Has anyone here gotten sick from mice (LCMV)?

    Hi all! Has anyone here gotten LCMV from mice in the chicken coop? We've been dealing with mice around our coop for the past year or so. We are trying to trap the mice, but in the meantime we've had droppings that I've cleaned up periodically. I have since learned about LCMV and am so scared...
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    Cochin sneezing and open mouth breathing/gasping

    Hi everyone! We have a 2.5 year old cochin. She started sneezing from time to time a few weeks ago and lately it has gotten more severe. Yesterday I noticed her open mouth breathing/gasping. I posted a video link that will hopefully show up. I started to give her tylosin in her water. Does...
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    Can a hen still lay with EYP?

    Our two-and-a-half-year-old lavender Orpington has been acting funny and we are concerned about egg yolk peritonitis. Can chickens still lay when they have this condition? She has been laying some soft-shelled eggs the past few weeks and some normal ones. She also has been laying sometimes in...
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    Black Comb. Any advice?

    Hi everyone! My two year old Salmon Faverolles has a large portion of her comb that is black. I went out of town a week ago and she seemed normal. It's been hot here, but I had a friend make sure she had fresh water. When I returned, I noticed that her comb is black. I just returned so I...
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    Has anyone here felt guilty after euthanizing a chicken?

    We had five sweet chickens in a mixed breed flock. They are our first chickens are somewhat pet-like for us. Today we put our sweetest one, a porcelain d'uccle, down. She is our first chicken who has died and I just feel awful and guilty for taking her to the vet for euthanasia. Has anyone else...
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    Chickens losing weight and drop of blood on dropping board

    Do you have any suggestions if I found a bit of blood in Sweet PDZ on the roosting dropping board? Should I treat for cocci? I have several chickens who just started laying this week for the first time. When cleaning their coop today, I noticed a 1/2 dime-sized red sweet PDZ on their dropping...
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    My Chicken is Wheezing. Do you think she can survive?

    I have a four-month-old white cochin and a mixed flock of 7 chickens aged 4-6 months. I noticed some of them sneezing from time to time and noticed some gray congestion in the cochin and a 6 month old salmon faverolles. I took the cochin and the salmon faverolles to the vet today. They'd never...
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    Is this noise normal or is she sick?

    Hi everyone! Here is my sweet 3 month old Cochin. She has recently started making a honking noise. Could this be her voice changing or could she be sick? It happens very often throughout the day. It doesn't happen when she's eating. I brought her inside and she sat with me on the couch for a...
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    Does my 2 month old lavender orpington look like a roo?

    I have a 9 week old lavender oprington that I bought as a sexed female chick from a hatchery. Does she look like a roo? She's larger than my salmon faverolle and of course the two bantams, but I don't have another orpington to compare her to. She just seems big to me and I've wondered about her...
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    Day old blue laced red wyandotte color question

    I just got some sweet chicks in the mail today. Two of them are blue laced red wyandottes. Can you tell from these pictures if they are black, blue, or splash? Do I need to wait longer to know?
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    Help! Lethargic chick with white diarrhea

    Please help! I have a 2.5 week old salmon faverolle chick. Two days ago I noticed she seemed a little tired so I put Corid in the water. Today she is very lethargic, not eating, and is having white diarrhea. I gave her a little molasses by her beak and started giving her drips of the Corid...
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    Why is my chick softly nervously chirping all the time?

    I have a little baby 2 week old silkie chick that chirps nonstop softly when she is awake. It just started this evening. What could it be? It sounds a bit like the chirping at 1 minute and 40 seconds in this video: It's not a loud distressed chirp, but it sounds a little anxious. It started...
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    Cocci: Are droppings consistently runny?

    Hello everyone! I am a first time chick mom. Although I've cared for other people's chickens before, I find myself worried about my own babies now that they are all my responsibility. I am so grateful for this community and its insight. If a chick has cocci, would its droppings be consistently...
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    Please help! Baby silkie chick with head tremors

    I'm raising baby chicks for the first time. They hatched on Monday and I received them Wednesday. My cute baby buff silkie was very weak at first. It barely opened its eyes, would sway, and would stay sleepy. I was able with vitamins, hand feeding, and dipping its beak in water to help make it...
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