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  1. Jtaranc

    Im so mad right now... possible Mareks

    Nevermind
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    Mareks in flock? Chicken is unsteady

    Ok last week I had a 4 year old bantam rooster just curl up in the lay box and die after being fine. I got home yesterday from work and my husband points to my 4 year old RIR hen on my porch and says "she hasnt moved all day" so of course i stand her up and she immediately falls over and uses...
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    How do you let moms raise babies?

    I have 3 BCM that are broody right now. I have marked some eggs and let them keep them, our set up is different though. Our lay boxes are in a big elevated part and its a steep ramp to climb. Im afraid once the babies hatch they will fall and get hurt. We have a flock of 26 hens and 2...
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    What is the usual cause of natural death in chickens?

    I have a pair of bantam porcelain d'uccles I got at tractor supply years ago. One roo and one hen and they paired off in our flock. The hen is broody right now. This morning i opened the lay box to collect eggs and my d'uccle roo was dead next to his hen 😩 No wounds or anything. Its like he...
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    Is this a chicken? What kind?

    My neighbor got an incubator and hatched eggs they had gotten from myself and some friends. Unbeknownst to myself they also found eggs while they were out mowing, put them in their incubator and hatched a turkey vulture. They had given me 2 chicks prior to this to raise because i had chicks...
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    HELP Found my barred rock full of maggots

    My barred rock Laverne did not come out of the coop this morning and I realized her vent area was absolutely full of poop and when i looked closer i saw maggots. After 2 hours of hydro therapy, I then clipped her feathers to see what on earth I was dealing with. Her vent is normal, but under...
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    UPDATE on scalped BCM hen healing (graphic pics)

    Heres an update on my year old BCM who I found in the pasture 2 nights ago after she didn't go up in her coop to be put up. I found her with a very clean U shaped cut on the back of her head down her neck. The tissue under did not sustain any damage. We are assuming this was a passing grab by...
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    BCM scalped by something?

    Tonight when my girls went up I did my normal head count and was down a BCM. I went looking for her and found her in my pasture where my 2 pyrenees and sheep are. I picked her up and she was wet which was odd and I brought her inside to check her over and found this. What in the world did...
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    Sick hen .... need help

    I posted about my friend giving me a hen who was getting picked on at her house. I knew the moment I saw her she was not well. She's very skinny with a droopy crop. I got her to eat strawberries the first day. Day 3 she's barely eating, smells strong of ammonia and is all puffed up. Her comb...
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    Hens ganging up on another hen

    Hey everyone! A friend of mine gave me an Isa brown hen that all of her hens were ganging up on at her place. I had it inside my home in a dog crate for a few days but it seemed stressed so I put it in the coop at night and next day all my hens were pummeling her. She just lays there. She is...
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    Help! Rooster plucked another roosters eye out

    Hey everyone! I have 2 roosters that hatched together, they are about 2 years old and have always gotten a long. One seems to be more dominate and monopolize the hens. Well last year I added 6 copper maran hens and my RIR mix rooster took to them. He's the less dominate one. But they've never...
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    Causes of sour crop

    My barred rock has sour crop again. She had it last summer and I caught it early, brought her inside and fasted her and then gave her Greek yogurt and Miconazole 2% cream. She got better quickly and went back outside. Today I found her hiding and I picked her up and accidently put pressure on...
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    My BBW turkeys are trying to breed.

    Hey everyone. So I have a 3 year old BBW Tom who fell off a truck when he was tiny. I raised him with RIR chicks I had at the time. He free ranges and gets lots of fruits and veggies and even runs sometimes although it scares the crap out of me. My boss who's a vet routinely checks him and is...
  14. Jtaranc

    Leg horn eggs?

    I have 22 hens and my leg horns are the only ones still laying, every day. I mean every day. They are my smallest chickens but their eggs are bigger than any ones. They're almost the size of my Pekin duck eggs. Is this normal? I feel so bad for them every time I pick their eggs 😆
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    Is this (finally) a maran egg??

    I have 6 8 month old copper marans (3 blue and 3 black) who have yet to lay. Right now only my leghorns are laying and periodically an Orpington. Today I found these. Is this dark one a BCM egg? My RIR lay brown eggs but usually not this dark.
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    Marans not laying eggs yet at 8 months

    Hey everyone! One of my absolute dream chickens are black copper marans and last spring I found someone selling them locally. It was someone who a mutual friend knew and came recommended. In May, I purchased 3 blue copper maran chicks and 3 black copper maran chicks. They have done well...
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    Hen regurging

    Hello all. I have a barred rock named Laverne who yesterday I noticed didn't eat with everyone else but she seemed like she was drinking excessively and her crop was like a little water balloon. I brought her inside and fed her some scrambled eggs and whenever she bent over to eat water/slime...
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    Caught a hawk flying away with one of my pullets

    I literally just posted about how my pullets go through the fence into my horse pasture the other day and today I was leaving the house to go get hay and my husband says "that hawk has something he's flying away with......it's one of your chickens!" He had her by the road and was dragging her...
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    Help my chickens are weird!

    Ok maybe not weird, just different than my others. I have a good size flock of hens and 1 rooster all from Tractor supply. They're all about 2. Everyone gets locked up in their coop at night (buried hardwire cloth) and they free range during the day. There is a chicken door the hens go...
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    Egg production down?

    Hello all! I have noticed lately that my egg production is down. I usually get about 13 eggs a day give or take, and I'm getting maybe half that. We live in South Carolina and have been under a heat wave. I feel like maybe that's when it started. We had one day where it was 107. My girls...
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