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    Chicken Leg Looks Disjointed

    This is not my first rodeo with chicks, but I have never encountered a chick that had a leg that actually looked disjointed - or really almost dislocated. We had 7 eggs in an incubator, but with the recent winter storm, we lost power, and only one chick ended up hatching (although we are going...
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    Chickens panting but won't drink water - in coop after dark

    I've been keeping chickens for several years now. I have had chickens pant before, but they always drink water. I have two hens out in the coop now (after dark) who are sort of panting ... just opening their beaks and stretching out their neck, almost like they are having trouble breathing...
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    Baby Chick Pecked Badly By Hen

    We had a mother hen who pecked one of our chicks very badly during the night last night. The wound cannot be more than five or six hours old because I got up during the night to check on all the chicks and they were fine. You can see what looks like could be some of her insides, but I am not...
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    Stress Cracks in Eggs

    My dad recently started raising chickens. He had great luck with his eggs at first, but more recently, some of his eggs are getting stress cracks at the end. I didn't think to take a picture while I was there yesterday, but it looks like the egg is thinning in spots and there are small cracks...
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    Keep the Pansies!

    Winter is so difficult when everything in the garden is dead or sleeping! I want to plant pansies to keep some color in the yard... but I have read that chickens love to eat them. How do you keep chickens out of your flowers without covering them in bird netting (which is unattractive) or...
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    New chick cannot stand up

    We hatched chicks in an incubator at school, and one chick that has hatched cannot stand up. It just scoots around on its bottom and kicks its legs out beside its face. I am not sure what the cause is, and therefore do not know if there is any way to treat it. I am attaching a picture. I made a...
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    Mother hen with diarhea and no color in comb or feet

    I have a mother hen who has just had her chicks hatching yesterday and today. She has been healthy up until this point, as far as I can tell. She started to have extra smelly poop a few days ago, but nothing out of the ordinary. Today, I found her sitting in a large amount of green diarrhea and...
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    Feeding

    I have a few feeding/watering questions at once. First, how do I best feed my free-range chickens outdoors without having squirrels and other critters steal all the food? I have just been throwing the food on the ground because I cannot decide what the best feeder option is. Any advice would...
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    Chickens not making sounds

    My chickens are going on 14 weeks old and used to make little peeping noises all of the time. In the past 2-3 weeks, they stopped peeping as often. Once or twice I heard sounds resembling a cluck which I saw as great progress. However, in the past week and a half, they have stopped making...
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    Do you know what breed these are?

    These are my three chickens. I used to have 5, but two were eaten by a mystery creature (coyote or fox) living behind a nearby brush pile. I know the biggest one is a rooster and believe the other two are hens because their combs are very small. Could you please help identify the breed of each...
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    4 Roosters and 1 Hen - Can it work?

    I was given 5 baby chicks just after they hatched and I did not know the gender. Now that they are growing older (almost 2 months now) I have discovered that I have 4 roosters and 1 hen. (Unless it is possible for a hen to have a comb because 2 of the "roosters" have smaller combs than the...
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