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  1. ChickenladyinMN

    8 month old chicken walking like she is drunk...

    So I noticed one of my babies was walking funny kind of leaning to one side.(that was yesterday) Today she is still walking like that but she now falls over, she gets back up and seems to be eating and drinking just fine. I cannot see anything else wrong with her the others are not picking on...
  2. ChickenladyinMN

    The Saga continues...

    so its a sad day today my first and only baby chick to hatch out of a batch of six, died today. We do not know why she was running around in the pen and acting normal all day. The last time we saw her alive was about 5:30pm when the DH went out for a smoke. At 7pm when the DD and I went out to...
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    So... I tried again

    So my last hatch was not very successful, well I got 1 out of 6. And I got a lot of grief from people on here about leaving the eggs too long in the incubator and telling me there was nothing inside of them, my DD and I broke them open and there were chicks we assume they suffocated. So we...
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    My hen is limping

    I posted this yesterday but did not get any responses. I have a 3 yr old Americauna hen and since the day we got her she would limp every "once in a blue moon" but this time it seems worse because now she wants to hold the leg under her and try to hop on the other leg. I have never seen it...
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    3 yr old that starts to limp

    I have a 3yr old Americauna hen that starts to limp every "Once in a Blue Moon" however this time seems to be a little worse because she is actually holding the leg up and hopping around on one leg. I managed to get a hold of her this morning and looked at her entire leg, there is no swelling...
  6. ChickenladyinMN

    My 3 year old roo just died

    My 3 year old roo just died this morning and the only thing that we noticed was that his comb was really purple looking. He had a lot of health issues when he was younger but we seemed to have gotten past all that. He seemed very healthy and happy I just spent the day with him yesterday and he...
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    Can someone help me figure this out??? ***UPDATED***

    I set eggs in my incubator on April 13th day 21 should have been May 3rd. All the eggs were not laid at the same time I collected them over a week, then put them in the incubator. The temp was fine and the humidity was good. I tried to candle the eggs and they were all dark so figured there...
  8. ChickenladyinMN

    Hatched chick wants to lay on its back

    Ok - so I have been raising chickens for years and never had anything like this. I have talked to a lot of people today and none of them have had this either. So the eggs should have been hatching on Monday the 3rd, that would have been day 21. One started to hatch on Thursday at about 7 a.m...
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    OMG I can't believe people!

    So last night I was waiting for the hubby to come home and I heard thumping on my deck. It was windy so I thought the patio furniture blew over, only when I opened the door none of the furniture was blown over. I saw a white and a brown something moving by the stairs to the deck. After...
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    Need temps and when to put eggs in bator

    I have a very old styrofoam incubator and I have misplaced the instructions. So I am not sure where the temp needs to be for chicken eggs and when do I want to start putting them in the incubator, because right now I only have one egg.
  11. ChickenladyinMN

    Everyone here knows this..

    we all know that chickens are theraputic but when you tell someone they look at you like your weird. This was actually on the news here in Minnesota - Therapy chickens They use chickens to help children overcome different diabilities, because the animals love unconditionally. Everyone that...
  12. ChickenladyinMN

    My Chickens Birthday!!

    This is a picture of my girls, they turned 7 on July 12th, 2009. Yes, I made them hats and cake(corn meal muffins) and we sang "Happy Birthday" to them. However, I am sad to say that the black one passed away on August 7th, 2009.
  13. ChickenladyinMN

    Help - my roo suddenly lost a lot of weight

    My roo that I brought in because the others injured him was doing great - finally crowing, eating well and being normal. Then suddenly its like he has given up he has trouble standing up and has dropped alot of weight. His comb has lost its red color and his feathers are dull, and his wings...
  14. ChickenladyinMN

    Very aggressive roo

    I had 3 roosters and they were in the same coop together up until the oldest one died. No one ever picked on anyone because they should have picked on the oldest because he had no feet to fight back, but they didn't. Shortly after he died one of the other roo's got frostbite and I removed him...
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    Hens breaking eggs and not using nest boxes

    I took fresh water out to the coop tonight and a hen had laid an egg right on the floor in front of the door. Then I checked the nest boxes for other eggs and when I reached in the box to pull out the eggs noticed they were sticky from a previous egg that was broken and most of it eaten. Was...
  16. ChickenladyinMN

    Any ideas on the breed of chicken?

    Back in the fall I attended a critter exhange at our local feed store and was offered a beautiful rooster, he was white and a sky blue in color I regret taking him but at the time already had 3 roosters, but thought what beautiful babies he would make. So know I would like to know the breed so...
  17. ChickenladyinMN

    Wanted : Does anyone know how to DIY pet cremation?

    I asked about 4-5 years ago about my rooster that lost his feet to frost bite. Anyways he passed away on 3-6-08 and we cannot bear to bury him and because he was soo spoiled and special to us we would like to have him cremated and put in a beautiful urn/jar on display. However we do not want...
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