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    sick young pullet

    We have only 2 girls, 4 months old, and one of them is sick, for 2 days been standing around all puffed up with her head sunk into her puffed neck feathers, tail down. She let me pick her up which is really unusual, she didn't seem to have mites and her crop was empty. First of all they are...
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    young hens acting sleepy

    We just got 2 pretty 3-month-old girls, barred rock & Americauna. They've been in our coop for a few hours and I've been watching then (keeping my distance since they are probably stressed from the truck ride home). They both ate some but the Americauna has mostly been laying down and sleeping...
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    Barred Rock Getting Picked On

    We started w/ 3 hens, 1 RIR, 1 RIR-Americauna cross, & 1 pure Americauna, who died within the first few months, we don't know why. The other 2 have been great layers & we've had no serious problems, but the pure RIR has always been a bully, even with only 2 of them she picked on the other one...
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    ok to eat weird shaped eggs?

    My girl Nugget has been laying eggs that are not the usual shape - they are kind of irregular and both ends look the same, that is, one isn't pointy. I looked at a site that someone else posted here and it said this can be caused by stress or disease. She has been acting funny, like maybe she...
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    Weird behavior this morning

    We have 3 laying hens, one of them is a white Americauna. She's been a great layer and is extremely cute. This morning when I looked in the coop, I noticed she was doing something weird - ducking her head down and to the side repeatedly, like something was stuck in her ear, eye throat maybe...
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