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    Help with 4 day old Gambel's Quail

    hi. We have a batch of baby Quail and one is looking very weak, sleepy. We are giving fresh water with electrolytes and a few grains of sugar but not getting it peppy. We feed medicated chick start. Our other quail do fine on this as this is what our local feed bin sells. Anyone suggest...
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    Healthy Looking Hen Moving Slow Motion, Not Eating... 1st Hen died, this is the 2nd to act this way?

    Hi. We have been keeping chickens for 6 years. This is the first time we have seen this... Do you know what it could be? One hen (looks good in appearance) begins to just stand around and not have any interest in eating. Does drink. Sometimes walks slow and looks around in a daze...
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    Hen Limping, then Lame, Now pecking Hole in her Back!

    Hello, we have one of our favorite hens in trouble. She is a 5+ y/o Barred Rock. She started limping a few months ago. I know that seems long ago but we were hopeful she would recover. We just made life easier but didn't treat her leg and it didn't look broken. We suspected old age... Her...
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    new order of baby chicks dying fast!!!

    Hi all, We got our latest shipment of chicks yesterday. Since they arrived we lost 7 in less than 18 hours and more are dying right now! Anyone else have this issue lately? The babies are all different breeds and it is affecting them all: blue andalusians, lakenvelders, silver polish...
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    Can a Pullet Crow?

    Hello, We have a 3 month old Buff Orpington. She looks just like our adult BO hen. She was previously in a run with only roosters. The roosters are gone now. And she is only with one other pullet at this time. (They are separate from the adult flock). There is absolutely no rooster...
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    2mth old Chick w/ LARGE HOLE in Chest! PLEASE READ?

    Hello, We have a sweet little chick that had a run in with a chihuahua... our second one this year (UGH)! She has a hole in her chest the size of maybe a quarter to half dollar... I rinsed it out yesterday when it happened but "material" started coming out... and I got grossed out and put her...
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    Update* 4wk old baby with wing torn off, doing fine!

    To give hope to those with serious wing injuries... Our 4 wk old leghorn that had its wing completely pulled out/torn off by our chihuahua is doing great! Once we stopped the bleeding, and treated her with antibiotics, and wrapped it... she continued to get out of the wraps. So we kept her...
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    Really Funny Chicken Behavior....

    We have a Buff Orpington that had a habit of sucking eggs... I posted about this and most said "stew pot". We almost did that, but instead tried one more thing... I just have to tell ya'll about this chicken! We separated her from the flock and put her in a dog kennel run with our cat...
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    URGENT HELP! 4wk OLD LEGHORN HAS WING PULLED OFF!

    Out of the blue our old chihuahua decided to take after a 4 wk old baby today while they were out in a small fenced play yard getting some sun and exercise. He grabbed the leghorn and torn her wing right off of her body. There is nothing left but a hole that was bleeding. I thought it was the...
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    Chirping Egg Day 22, Died Overnight, Why???

    Hi Everyone, I am soooo sad! Our Auracana Chickie didn't make it. I am wondering if I could have done something to prevent it???? Yesterday was day 22. There was no sign of pipping... Though we heard chirping from the egg starting in the evening. Since our last chickie pipped on Day23, I...
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    Hen who sucks eggs, leaves shell... Suggestions? Rid her from flock?

    Recently we adopted some hens that are about 2 yrs old. Our coop was invaded by a dog and nearly wiped out our entire flock... Anyway, one of these hens (Buff Orpington), lays an egg then turns around pokes a hole in it and sucks out the insides and leaves the shell. We keep her contained in...
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    Pipped Day 23, Hatched w/ Help Day 24... Healthy! Hope for Late Eggs!

    Our first egg that we have ever incubated hatched!!!! We were beginning to worry as there were no signs of anything up until Day 23. Then, the chick made a little pip. We waited 7 hours with no change, but we could hear chirping. So, we broke away a tiny bit of the shell around the pip and...
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    Pipping on the side!!! IS this bad?

    Hi! Our egg is 23 days along and just now we see a pip on the side of the egg, not the larger end... Should we do anything, will it be ok?
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    Could we try to "crack" eggs that are late? or wait?????

    Hello, I have been reading all the topics and have learned so much as we are new to incubating our own eggs. We have a small incubator that holds on 3 eggs. I have been monitoring them closely and have tried to adjusts the temps as needed etc. I know we had viable chicks inside during...
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    Flock attacked by Dog Today!

    From time to time we foster Dalmatians for a local rescue group. We always test them with our children, little & big dogs, horses, cat and chickens.... However, out of the blue today she broke into the coop when we were in the house and massacred most of our flock. It was so heartbreaking...
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