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    Hens won't lay in nesting boxes.

    I have 9 full grown, various ages and breeds and I also have 11 almost 20 week old chicks. About a month ago I was having a terrible time with an egg eater, well several I think, so I spent a whole day revamping the old nesting boxes (at this point my younger hens were not laying but my big hens...
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    Help! Mites in feed

    Oh help! I bought 100 lbs of layer pellets and dumped then into my feed can...a metal can with a lid. ( I now know it needs to seal) a few days later I went to get some feed and there are mites everywhere in the can! I spent hours cleaning, washing and dusting my coop and my chickens. My...
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    Magpies are eatting chicken eggs!

    I have a flock of 12 chickens ( 11 hens and 1 roo) mixed ages and breeds. They are free range durning the day. There is a little door cut out in the big door for them to go in and out as they please. A few weeks ago I went out to garther eggs and someone had pecked a hole in an egg. The problem...
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    Help? Scaly leg or something else

    Is this scaly legs, old age, or something else.
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    Help! Sick chickens

    I lost two chickens last week and i have two more that don't look that great. The ones that died and the two I have in isolation all have/had poopy butts. The ones that dies got very lethargic and once they were dead or almost dead they had snot looking stuff coming out thier beaks. One of the...
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    impacted crop and white maggots?

    anyone had success in fixing an impacted crop with white maggots? What about those impacted crop pills?
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    crop issue....compacted/sour?

    I have a chicken that is about 3 years old, she is a golden sex link white leg horn mix (we free range). Last week we were treating everyone for lice and mite and I notice she felt pretty light, like maybe she lost some weight. I turned her upside down for just a few seconds to get her belly...
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    2 week old chick twisted/splay leg?

    I have a little chick that is 2 weeks old and I'm not sure what to do about her leg. When she was first hatch she acted kinda weird and wouldn't stand up to walk and I was worried about leg problems. then the next day she was up and walking and running normal. well Sunday I notice her leg looks...
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    To help or not to help?

    I know i am going to get mixed opinions of this, but I'm not sure what to do. I have an egg (had 8 others hatch) that pipped yesterday afternoon some time and started to(kinda) zip yesterday evening. It made a pretty good sized hole..big enough to get its beak clear out and you can see one eye...
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    Slipped Achilles Tendon in Hock Joint or something else HELP! pictures

    So I have a 4 week old rhode island red chick that i think has a slipped achilles tendon Or maybe twisted leg? I have tried to get the tendon back in place, but i don't think i have got it. I read about it here https://sites.google.com/a/larsencreek.com/chicken-orthopedics/, but i just not doing...
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    Guess my hatch is done.

    I still have 4 eggs in my lg bator that haven't hatched. I put them in March 16th at 5pm. So I counted 17th as day 1. Friday (april 6th) was day 21. Two eggs started to hatch thursday and hatched out friday early morning. Then one more hatched out at midnight saturday. Nothing since. so i guess...
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    Anyone else setting eggs today? (3/17/12)

    I am setting 18 eggs today. Im doing 12 Rhode island reds and six mixed eggs. (the rooster was a rhode island red). My original plan was to set on st patty's day, but a fox got our rooster so i had to speed things up a bit. I guess they will almost be easter babies! So who's with me?
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    bloody pin feathers?

    So i went out and turned on the heat light for my chickens everyone was fine. Then I ran back out to check for eggs (they freeze is they stay out all night) and i noticed some blood on a hens foot. Upon a closer look i didn't see anything right off, other than blood on her one wing. It was dry...
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    rooster question..update

    I had a wierd thing happen with my roosters. I had 4 roosters..all of them got along fine. I got rid of two and the two remain seemed to be doing fine. now all of a sudden they are fighting. i have a barrock..not sure how old he is, but he was the domanet rooster. then i have a rhodeisland red...
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    Oh no I have an egg eater!

    Help! One of my chickens that I hatch this spring has decided she really likes eatting eggs. What can I do to break this bad bad habit? I don't want to get rid of her and I don't eat my chickens. She is super friendly too! Any ideas??
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    Bloated belly please help.

    I have a white leg horn chicken that is a little over a year old. I went out in the coop this morning and she was walking weird like a pengin ( with her butt to the ground) and he belly looks all bloated up. She also had some poop stuck to her butt, but not blocking her vent. I brang her in the...
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    Help a sick leg horn hen

    Help!! I went out to check on my chickens and on of my white leg horn hens was kinda roosten on the lip of then nesting box with her head down. I left her for a while...thinking maybe she is trying to lay. I went out about 1/2 hr later and she is still there...her comb is a funny color and she...
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    Why so few eggs?

    Hey yall. I have a question. I have a flock of 22 chickens, and about the last month my eggs when from 6-7 eggs down to 3 or 4. I can't figure it out. Here is some info on my little flock. We have 5 white leg horn hens (alittle over a year old), 2 golden sex link hens (not sure how old they...
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    How long can eggs stay out?

    I have a question and wasn't sure where to post it, but how long can your eggs sit in the coop? Im going to be gone for 3 day and have plenty of food and water for the girls, but worried about the eggs. Its going to be about mid 80's while im gone and about 50 at night. will they be ok to eat...
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    HELP OUr chicken has something hanging out of her. UPDATE..more pic

    We have this chicken that is a little over a year old and we went out to check on them and my son's fav hen has this hanging out of her. What is it? What should we do?? Update: I gave her a bath this morning to clean it up a bit. I felt it and it is just full of air. It will colapse when you...
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