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    Rooster bleeding out through beak

    My 6-month-old rooster has been fine all day and suddenly started hemmoraghing through his beak. He is gurgling and spitting up a lot of blood. No discharge from eyes or nose, comb is bright red, he's been playing around and living his best life all day. I'd appreciate some ideas of what to look...
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    Do flock dynamics affect broodiness?

    Question: I know that Wyandottes are prone to broodiness, but ours is also low chicken in the pecking order. She seems so much happier now that she has babies to run around with (we bought some day-old chicks and slipped them under her since we don’t have a rooster). Has anyone noticed a...
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    Chickens in Literature

    So. I just finished reading two mystery novels by Dorothy Sayers. In one, the suspected murderer has a flock of Buff Orpingtons that she can’t stop talking about. In the other, the actual murderer’s alibi is that she was scouting around for a poultry farm to buy near the town of Orpington. I bet...
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    Days old chick opening beak, in distress

    I picked up some chicks from a breeder yesterday and the ISA Browns in the group seemed a little small and slow. Today, one of them is doing great and the other has gone downhill. She keeps opening her beak like she’s having trouble breathing. We have given her electrolytes and probiotic by oral...
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