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    My girl got dizzy

    My nearly one yr old hen is loosing feathers so I think she's going into a molt. Just now she was dust bathing and one of the other hens disturbed her and when she got up she was dizzy. She has been eating OK and drinking. Has anyone seen this before with their hens? She literaly looked drunk.
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    Alfalfa hay

    Instead of getting a bale of alfalfa hay I ended up with the dehydrated crumbles of hay. TSC didn't have the bales. I drove 30 miles so I bought what they had. Now I don't know how to use it. Should I just spread it out in the run? Does it get moldy when wet? It's very fine. Put in nest...
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    My chickens are spoiled

    Here's the deal. All summer my girls have roamed our backyard b/c of the heat. We have lots of trees for shade. But their run has no trees that is why I let them out for the shade. They get on the deck and poop all over the place. DH has said to me today since the heat is no longer a problem...
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    So crazy coons.

    I am pet sitting my neightbors cats while she is out and every night I feed the out side cat the coons come up and eat the food. I stood at the back door and said "You will live as long as you leave my chickens alone". They have never bothered my girls. Go figure I don't have to trap or...
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    Scraggly Looking Crow

    Is there no end to chicken worries. I have this sick looking crow visiting my backyard everyday and I catch him going into the chicken coop I scare him off b/c he is always alone and looks like he has been beat up. I am thinking he may spread some disease to my birds or mites I've heard wild...
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    Something out there likes to chew on rubber

    I've been waking up to let the girls out and finding my DH flip flops chewed up and my grandson's foam baseball bat chewed. Do raccoons chew on things? We don't have a dog and our yard is totally fenced in.
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    My little Catalina Peeps just laid her first egg.

    Yup, she was acting strange going in and out of the nesting box all frantic like. I watched her for awhile and she kept scratching in the nesting box and turning around and around and bawking like crazy. I left her alone and she came out drank ALOT of water and I found a pretty pinkish colored...
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    My husband sprayed miracle gro on our plants...

    looked out the window and saw my DH (d is not for dear this time) spraying miracle gro in the yard. My birds free-range. He got mad when I asked him to stop. How long b4 I can let my girls out in the yard again.? This was yesterday. I've ask him not to do this b4.
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    I think my hen is sick.

    I have a 1 yr old RIR who just this morning would not come out of the coop. She sounds like she has a stuffy nose and won't eat. I did get her to drink a little. Gave her a warm bath and she just sat in my lap with her eyes closed. It's scaring me b/c she never would let me even pick her...
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    Tomatoe plants

    My husband planted tomatoe plants in the run. My chickens are eating the leaves and I read they were not good for them and could be toxic. Should I pull them up? My husband is not going to be to happy about that. I am so worried. I forgot to mention they are not very big plants. My gut...
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    chicken is picking the other chicken neck

    I've been noticing a small bare spot on one of my girls neck. When I was out with them today I saw the other hen pecking her neck. The one that is getting pecked is just letting the other one do it. I tried to catch her to look at her neck but she won't let me.
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    What is going on?

    I was given 2 adult RIR chickens 2 months ago. Only 1 has layed eggs and not the other. Yesterday the non layer went into the nesting box for a while and I thought she was trying to lay an egg. After she got out I went and checked and no egg. Today the same time as yesterday she went back to...
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    Older Hens won't let my younger hen eat or drink

    My 2 older hens will not let my younger hen eat her food or drink her water. I have 2 seperate food and water containers and every time my little one goes to eat from her little pen the older ones go over there and she runs away. And if she goes to the other containers they follow her and...
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    Yellow jackets in coop

    I have yellow jacket trying to make a nest in my coop. Any suggestion on how to get rid of them w/o harming my chickens.
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    White flakes on my hen

    One of my hens keeps picking at her feathers and when she does there is little white flakes that appear and then she eats them. Is this something I should be conerned about?
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    Leaving town for a few days worried about my hens.

    OK I spoiled my girls. They are picky about eating their layer food. I give them good scraps every day. The run is about 15 X 20 ft or more. Every day at 3pm I let them out to free range the rest of the yard till dark. The problem is I will be out of town for 4 days and I know DH will not...
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