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    wobbly weak legs, falling over, why??

    I have two 3 1/2 year old hens we’ll call Miss Barred and Miss Buff, that are showing this symptom: off balance, weak-looking wobbly legs, stumbling and flopping over and using their wings to steady themselves. Standing in one place seems okay, but they are having trouble getting around. They...
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    HELP wheezing chicken can’t breathe!!!

    my hen has been sneezing on and off for a few days with NO other symptoms red comb and normal activity. she is now wheezing sticking her neck out and “crowing” while gasping and beak open breathing loudly. what can I do for her??
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    puffed up lethargic not eating

    Hi all, happy Thanksgiving. My 2 1/2 year old barred rock has started showing signs in the last few days: less activity drinking a TON of water empty/nearly empty crop not eating much standing puffed up poop is mostly clear liquid I’ve been able to give her yogurt with electrolytes and she...
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    7 week old standing/laying with one eye closed

    we just noticed this afternoon that our chick here has been keeping one eye closed, even while she’s active, walking, or standing and eating/drinking. she’s also resting a lot more than I think is usual and has been continually laying in the sun with both eyes closed going into deep sleeps. the...
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    6 week old EE — hen or roo?

    from Mt Healthy sexed pullets, the all yellow EE chick my kids chose at the feed store. of course it’s their favorite chick…
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    what’s wrong with this chicken? is this EYP?

    this lady had a thing in early June for about two weeks where she was lethargic, pale comb, not laying, sort of acting egg bound. @azygous walked me through the calcium protocol for egg binding which was a great help. I never did see an egg while she was separated. she seemed to bounce back and...
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    lethargic chicken

    where do you start when diagnosing a lethargic chicken? this is my flock boss and she’s usually got quite an attitude. so far today, quiet, stationary at times, I saw a bit of roosting puffed up which I know isn’t normal. but then some regular energy foraging activity in between. when I let...
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    injured wing help!

    we just had a bobcat lurking and my girls got spooked. they were secure in their run but we heard them all take flight and start alarm calling. my barred rock’s wing looks like this. she can’t fold it under, won’t let me touch it, and if she tries to flap it she loses balance and flops over...
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    is this frostbite?

    after the insane polar blast we had here in the northeast, three of my larger combed girls look like this. is this a mild case of frostbite? anything I can or should do for them? we have a really well ventilated coop, but had an overnight of -9 feels like -25 which is the coldest they’ve...
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    chickens got into a few dried garden beanpods, toxic?

    everything on the internet says beans are toxic. I’ve cleared all tomatoes and peppers out of my gardens before letting the chickens in to forage, but one bed had a few yellow bush bean pods that had dried and fallen and that I missed. of course they found them, ripped the pods right open and...
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    spring pullet stopped laying. day length?

    miss buff here was the first in my April hatched flock to begin laying the first week of October, well before anyone else, and has been laying regularly daily since — until about two weeks ago. now no eggs from her. they are 8 months old. (two barred rocks and another buff are laying, and I’m...
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    comparing two organic feeds: NCO vs locally milled

    hi everyone, my ladies are 30 weeks old and have been on New Country Organics feed since day 1: starter, grower, and now layer. we've been very happy with it. they're healthy, thriving, glossy beautiful feathers, eggs every day, happy birds. I would be reluctant to change anything because...
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    winter ventilation

    first winter with chickens, located in the litchfield hills of Connecticut. all through the design phase of the coop build we took all the great advice about ventilation from BYC and designed the coop to accommodate the extra vent requirements for deep litter, and enough sq ft ventilation for...
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    injured chicken in shock

    this morning I rolled my chickens to a new spot in their wood frame tractor, when I heard a squabble in the back so I set it down thinking they got caught up and needed a pause. then I looked down and saw one of my EE’s was down wings splayed out and had her head crushed under the frame. I...
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    shelless egg with yellow liquid

    I have a 26 week old flock. one of my barred rocks has been laying consistently for about 3 weeks, but none from her in the last 3 days. every single egg from the four ladies that are laying has been perfectly formed with nice hard shells. they're on a layer feed. as I was watching them just...
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    laying pullets on layer feed + chick starter?

    hi there, my seven pullets are now 24 weeks old, and four have begun laying in the last two weeks. all 20ish eggs we’ve gotten have had perfectly hard shells. the ladies started on layer feed (17%) as of 18 weeks-ish, when I started mixing it half and half with the chick starter (21%) they...
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    grower feed is out of stock

    my pullets will be 15 weeks on Monday. I’m at the bottom of my current bag of grower feed. I went to my local feed store today to pick up another bag of grower I had ordered and found out they had sent me turkey grower (whoops) and the feed I do want is out of stock and would take a month to get...
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    loose watery poop on hot days?

    my chicks are 12 weeks old tomorrow. the last couple of days I’ve noticed my black australorp have liquid poop just shoot out of her bottom end, no other way to describe it. the color is normal, it looks just like a typical turd color, just with a lot of water content. I thought it was from...
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    chicks panting in heat

    hot day here in Connecticut, about 90 and humid — but not nearly as extreme as what you guys in the south deal with for months at a time! my 9 week old chicks are out in deep shade, on grass, busy foraging and catching flies but also spending time resting. when they’re laying around I’m...
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    thoughts on this poop? coccidiosis?

    I found this in the brooder this morning. my chicks are about 5 weeks old. I have posted before asking this question but this time the redness seems more liquidy than the past times I now recognize as intestinal lining. so I’ve been looking all morning and I cannot find another poop like...
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