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    Pullet Face Swollen—Where to Administer Antibiotics?

    Hello! Thank you thank you thank you wonderful people again, this has been the most stressful spring and I can’t appreciate you all enough for your help. One of our young pullets, a 2 month old Olive Egger, has developed a facial swelling on her left side, and her eye is giving off yellow...
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    Safe to Move Freshly Hatched Chick to Disinfect?

    Our brooder has bits of decaying eggshell from the first hatch 4 days ago, and the new chick has a swollen belly and open navel. It has lots of energy, hatched in an hour, and is moving around a lot, we need to know if it is safe to open the incubator to briefly wipe the area with iodine to...
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    Cataracts in Chick— is she sick or just can’t see?

    I just hatched some new babies two days ago, and one of them was struggling. It couldn’t walk well, had curled toes and staggered as it went. Its peeping was slightly raspy and it moved to sleep in the light. It seemed like it had a case of mushy chick, as well. But it was never as weak as the...
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    Can I Leave Egg Remains In Incubator for Days? Or Contamination Issue?

    I had a bad start to my first try incubating eggs (chickens) on my own, and ended up with the wrong heat level and humidity for days in the beginning. We have had 3 hatch well, only 1 with curly toes, but I am waiting on the rest 2 days after first hatch. Is it safe to leave the egg remains in...
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    Baby Chick Feet Deformed—Can I Help?

    I just did my first incubation (that I personally managed, my family did them before when I was really little) and I did not do a good job with the heat and humidity. (Partially because the incubator was years old, also just inexperienced) I really want the chicks that made it to do well—this...
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    Anyone know what this is in candling? I left it in for now

    Had a weird egg in this one, it’s a bit large. Laid by a True Blue Whiting, not sure what’s going on. There was another of hers in there that had two little black blobs inside but not really veins and development, so we took it out, but I’m really not sure what to make of this. We’re on day 17...
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    April Showers—Intro for the newest members of the flock

    I’ve been posting so many sad things on here lately that I felt the need to share something nice! Of course, it still comes with all the sad stories that led to it, but some of the April showers really did lead to flowers—or at least, the friendliest batch of chicks I’ve ever raised! It started...
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    • blue laced red wyandotte happy ending jersey giant mille fleur d'uccle my pet chicken new #babies olive egger partridge penedesenca pullet sad
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    • Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Flock
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    Lump on skin outside vagina, trying to lay—What is this? I thought she was egg bound! Is she dying? Is this a symptom of something worse?

    Sorry for red light, it is heat lamp. Oliver, 3 year old Olive egged hen, has been egg bound for 4 days, I thought she was dying today, now she is trying to lay. Her whole abdomen is hard as a rock except for this sac of fluid it feels like right behind her vent. Is this skin thing a sigh of...
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    Eggbound Hen Trying to Lay Huge Egg, 30 Min So Far, How Can I Help Her Move It?

    My 3 year old Olive Egger, Oliver, (hen) has been isolated trying to lay what must be a giant egg (I’m praying it’s not a lash egg!) and finally today when I thought she might be dying she is giving it her all and I am seeing her vent expand. However the egg looks to be sitting way down below...
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    Egg-bound hen not responding to Epsom soaks, seeing yolk dripping from vent—advice on further steps?

    I feel like I only get on this site with emergencies these days, but unfortunately it seems when it comes to chickens it doesn’t rain but pour! My hen (Olive-egger, 3 years old and as of a week ago the last survivor of her batch, background mycoplasma and survived my first-timer bumblefoot...
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    Sticky Note on Egg— Pores Clogged?

    Hi! I had a question about hatching eggs. I haven’t done this myself before, and we haven’t done it at all in a long time, but we recently lost my favorite hen, who laid blue-speckled green eggs, along with our True Blue Whiting rooster! I hadn’t gotten the chance to hatch any eggs from her...
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    Can anyone coach through bumblefoot surgery on top of foot?

    I just made a post about my sick hen; she's got a really bad bumblefoot infection and I'm worried it's already in her bloodstream. On the off-chance I can save her, I would need to address the swelling and scabbing on top of her foot by cutting it open to remove the infection. Only problem is...
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    Severe Bumblefoot Possible Infection

    I've just been posting lately about Mycoplasma and issues related to that, so of course I found out a bit ago that many of my ladies have bumblefoot. (The reasons are environmental and I'm working to rectify them but it's pretty costly so it won't be easy. Got one of them down but there are two...
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    Getting Tylan

    I wanted to post some information about getting your hands on Tylan, an important medication for Mycoplasma Gallisepticum. I'm sure someone else has made a thread about this somewhere, and I know a lot of information about this is widely known, but I recently had a lot of trouble getting my...
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    Whole Flock Sick, May Need to Start Over -- Advice Needed

    So, recently in this thread I made a post about one of our roosters, Cheeto, who was exhibiting symptoms of a respiratory illness. Well, we took him to the vet, and they said it was likely CRD. This was really heartbreaking, as he's one of my very favorites, a sweet and very handsome boy. But it...
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    Rooster Respiratory Issue -- Need Diagnosis Help Please!

    Hi! It's been forever since I've been on here, and I wish the first post back was for fun, but I noticed one of my roosters, Cheeto (a Whiting True Blue, around two if I remember correctly, seems to be an okay weight but he is currently molting) is sick and I know that respiratory things can be...
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    Are My Roosters Being Too Rough On Their Hens?

    I have 4 of them with flocks right now and I need advice. Most of my hens are ending up missing back feathers in all 3 coops, one of these situations is understandable because he’s a Jersey Giant so he’s just big, but one of the others is definitely overworking them and being rough, and the...
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    Rooster Flock Integration Fail- Advice Needed

    Ok, so I need advice on this one as I’m not sure what to do! I currently have three roosters who aren’t with a flock, and I’ve been hoping to integrate them into a rooster flock—they are taking up two stalls in the barn, and I’d love if they could take up one stall instead (for another issue...
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    • #bullying #fail #fighting #flockintegrate #flockintegratefail #grudges #rooster #roosterflock
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
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    Meet the Flock! (finally) part 2

    I know it’s kind of funny to say ‘meet the flock’ when I actually have 4 separate flocks but they’re all my babies and I love them. Flock 2 is the first flock that I raised here, but raising them was kind of sporadic. They have some weird stories! The first four of them we got from a neighbor...
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    Meet the Flock! (finally) part 1

    Ok, so, crazy long time since my last post on here considering the amount of chicken drama I’ve had, but gosh it has been CRAZY. Probably I’m going to be back on here asking for advice about these guys very, very soon, but first I’m just gonna introduce them! I’m very happy that this site...
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