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    Lethargic and insteady

    I have a 3 month old Orpington cockerel that was panting and lethargic on Sunday. It was warm with almost no breeze, but nothing like the heat we had earlier in the week. I was changing their water every day about noonish and adding ice blocks. We got him set up in the basement and gave him...
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    Ideas for temporary housing

    So long story short, we ended up with some chickens, and did a quick and dirty conversion of a lean-to into a coop. Now that I am hooked on chickens, I want to make some upgrades to the lean-to to make it the permanent coop. One of those upgrades is pouring a concrete floor (it's currently a...
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    Anybody dealt with a broken yolk sac?

    I have a chick that hatched sometime in the last hour, and by the time I got to checking the incubator this morning I found a bunch of yolk on the paper towel, and what looks like an empty yolk sac still attached. The best guess I have is the other 2 in with him stepped on the sack and it...
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    4 week old chick closing eyes and scratching

    Hi! I am pretty new to chickens, and have a 4 week old Orpington chick that has been spending a lot of time with it's eyes closed. I noticed it yesterday afternoon. It is still bright, busy, eating, drinking, scratching, preening...but will close it's eyes for no apparent reason. At the...
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    Hello from Ontario

    Hello! My family is new to chickens (got them in January), and to be honest, it was completely by accident. With a background in ag, most of my experience with chickens was either in mass production or research, so I was not fond of the beasts. Fast forward to a few months ago, and a friend of...
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