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    Dead Chicken

    I thought she was broody yesterday. Sitting on a nest of hat she had gathered. No fleas, No lice, No runny nose or eyes, no watery stool. Just her comb appeared dehydrated as they sometimes do with a broody girl. This morning she is dead. in the same place I found her yesterday with her head all...
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    Why are my big fat wyndotts just sitting around?

    I have a silver and a golden. They are, well I'll just say they would be great eating they are soooo big. The golden I am sure is just broody, sitting on the nest all day long. But the silver comes out of the coop and just sits while the others ( 2 California greys and a RIR) pull all the...
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    What if it honks like a goose but it's not a goose?

    I have a BR that 2 weeks ago I noticed when I let them out to roam around she would "honk". At first I thought, "Oh no I hope she's not coming down with some respiratory thing. The next few days I kept her in the run and kept an eye on her and no more honking. So I let them all out to roam...
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    Is it typical for the chicks to run at each other?

    and butt chests like a bunch of football or wrestling fans? are they establishing order or is it a rooish behavior?
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    always standing

    Ijust got a new batch of chicks from Coastal (supposedly all girls) they are 1 wekk old. One of the Califorina Greys is always standing, as if watching over the rest of the flock. Do roos start this behavior as early as a week old? Please say it ain't so. I can't have roos and the last batch...
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    My roo is overly attentive???

    I have 2 RIR hens, Lucy and Ethel and last spring Ethel went broody so I gave her some fertile eggs, which she hatched and reared. I kept a beautiful young cockral named of course Fred. Now Fred is 11months old and he and Ethel are inseperable. He has turned into a wonderful young gentleman so...
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