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    UPDATED with photos. Mereks or something else? bobbing head, difficulty standing and walking. Seems.....drunk?

    Rosalie is a 5 1/2 year old Redstar hen. She is currently lighter than usual. Rosalie has recently started having trouble moving since maybe Saturday? First she moved to the lowest roosting bar, then to the egg box, then refused to come out of the roosting area/eggbox area. I thought oh, maybe...
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    Rescue chicken

    A neighbor asked if we could take their lone chicken "Maple" after a racoon attack. We've got her in a quarantine pen on the other side of the house. They said she survived a previous racoon attack and they thought they'd fixed the issue but they hadn't and they lost the other one. She hasn't...
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    Lethargic chicken, discolored comb, vertebral bones in crop, possible impaction? laying issues.

    Rosalie is a 5 year old Redstar hen. She usually lays almost every day unless molting. She stopped laying about last week. She has regularly had brittle shells all her life which I've found to be related to some kid of vitamin D deficiency as her eggs are reasonably hard when I give her vitamin...
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    calcium in a mixed flock

    How do people give calcium if you have a mixed flocks, for example laying hens mixed with chicks and/or roosters? I know you don't give layer feed and some people put out oystershell, but in my experience, the hens won't touch oystershell. I've given RepCal supplements on treats before, but I...
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    broken shell piece

    My hens haven't been laying since molt. One was broody (Esmerelda-blackstar) and then went through molt, the other (Rosalie-red star) went through a hard molt a few weeks later. Rosalie is 4 1/2 and Esmerelda is 3 1/2. We've been feeding medicated chick feed since the chicks are in there with...
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    Really a Blackstar?

    I have a supposedly 3 year old hen that I got last year and was told she was a Blackstar. I've always wondered if that was correct. She does have the proper markings, but some things make me wonder if she's not something else. She's huge. She's gotten bigger since we got her. We had a Redstar...
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    Day 20- poopy broody on the nest and no chirping?

    She pooped herself. I was worried because I locked her up in the nestbox/roost area on day 18 and I haven't seen any poop in the roost area and she hasn't gotten up off the eggs as far as I can tell. Tonight I went to check because I thought I'd heard a popping sound and I'm super paranoid about...
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    Risk it? Dead or alive lockdown moment of truth.

    I need some time sensitive advice and my local group isn't answering. Esmerelda has been sitting on 4 Ameraucana back/blue/splash hatching eggs for almost 18 days. Later today we go into lockdown. Three of the eggs looked good when I candled throughout. One looked like a yolker, but a friend...
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    Meet the Nuts

    I currently have 2 free ranging urban chickens, a bossy 4 and a half year old Redstar named Rosalie who after 6 months of henpecking has come to eventually tollerate her buddy, a 3 year old Blackstar named Esmerelda. Against all odds, Esmerelda has gone broody and has been sitting on 4...
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