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    Huge foot sore!

    I noticed this one one of my year old Californian hens yesterday. She is limping slightly, but acting otherwise normal. My daughter says she thinks it has been there for a month, but I am not sure that is reliable. Bumble foot? I haven't ever seen it on the top of the foot before?
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    Heat stress or illness?

    It's hot here! All of my birds look hot. Egg production is down. (went from about 18 eggs a day to 6 in the last week!) I noticed a few of my birds have dirty behinds and are acting very sluggish. I don't see any diarrhea on the ground, but I have to assume it's there. Additionally, we moved...
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    LGD puppies killed a chicken. Any hope?

    I have two 13 week old Anatolian/great Pyrenees mix puppies that we got specifically to help guard our hens. We have had a couple previous dogs that were chicken killers, but we got these guys specifically because they were raised very closely with chickens and came from great protection-minded...
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    Big red tumor

    I have a 3 year old barred rock hen that has this big, golf ball-sized tumor on her neck. It's bright red, (about the color of her comb) and held on with a tiny thread of skin. It flops around when she walks and kinda grosses me out. She's had it at least 6 months and it's getting...
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    Randomly dead chicken. How do I do a necropsy?

    I had a 1 year old barred rock hen die today. I noticed that she had been lying down a lot and just not being as active. I separated her from the others and inspected her. I couldn't find anything wrong with her. Comb was red, and nothing abnormal as far as I could see. Her belly was soft, vent...
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    Pale Comb

    I noticed one of my barred rock hens has a suddenly pale comb. She's not even a year old, and they have all been laying well, considering the cold weather. I separated her from the flock and gave her a good look over. I cannot find anything else wrong with her. She does hang back a bit when...
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    Success story - mites

    We had a pretty bad mite infestation. 2 of our older hens had died, and the rest stopped laying before we figured out what to do. The broody hen even got off the nest, and they were all trying to roost on top of the house. Gary even stopped crowing. We went all out. Sevin dusted all...
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    Mites! Please help!

    Our chicken tractor is infested with tiny gray/white mites! There are thousands! We had an older chicken die yesterday and the rest of them are scratching and fluffing their feathers. Combs are somewhat pale and my egg production is in the toilet. :( I am reading lots of different ways to...
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    Bad Mama :(

    So I have had a broody chicken for about 5 weeks now. She has been very good about sitting for days on end, but she has broken several sets of eggs that we have given her. She sat on a golf ball for the last week, and I was thinking it was about time to break her of it and get some chicks...
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    My first broody

    I just had a baby and one of my nutty chickens must've thought it looked like fun cause she went broody. Unfortunately, she is not doing very well. She's been sitting for 2 or 3 weeks now. My goofy mother in law has been stealing her eggs. I was trying to get her to set on only my standard...
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    Chicken Kidnapper!!!

    We went on vacation to visit my sister who just had twins. We had to have someone to take care of the chickens, so we loaded them up along with their tractor and took them over to my in-laws. Now we have been back for 2 weeks, and my mother in law won't give them back!! They have fallen in...
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    Please help me figure out what I got.

    Hi. I have a bunch of mystery chicks. I think I have most of them figured out, but I was hoping to get some help from you guys. My first set are almost certainly the same breed. I have 3 girls Irene, Nellie, and Dorothy. They were beautiful chipmunk chicks, so I thought they would be EE's...
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    Success!!! We got our masked bandits!

    We finally got em!!! We lost over half our flock in one night to a coon. They came right up on our front porch and pulled them through the cage. Carnage and feathers everywhere, not to mention 3 previously tame chickens with PTSD now. So we finally got the chicken tractor finished, and put...
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    Is Carol a black sex-link banty???

    I love this chicken. She use to be shy, but has really come out of her shell (so to speak). She's a cuddler. I was told a long time ago that she was a BSL, but she looks nothing like her sister, who looks like a textbook BSL. I believe that Carol is a banty because she has many more feathers...
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    Please tell me it's not a tumor.

    I have a beautiful black star pullet about 5 weeks old who suddenly came up with a walnut sized knot on its breast, right in front of the right wing. It's fairly solid in texture. She acts completely normal, but she has always been one of the most timid chicks I have. What could this be...
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    Wild, crazy chicks

    I have about 9 mixed bag of chicks. This is my second batch ever, and it seems there are 2 "bad eggs". They are both supposedly BO pullets and are about a week and a half old. My problem with them is that they are constantly alarmed, and alarming all of the others. If the reach my hand in...
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    Mixed bag of chicks from a feed store. What are they??

    I am new to chickens, and got a some at a local Atwoods. The clerk I got them from knew less than I do about chickens, and just grabbed some. I believe they are all hens, except for one. Can you help? These are my 4 weekers. My rooster (I think) And my 1 weekers Leghorn??? Thanks...
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    Hi from AR

    Hi. I am new here and am trying, once again to have some chickens. I have not had good luck in the past, so I hope to do a better job at educating myself with your help. I am glad to see such active forums! Thanks in advance to all of you!!
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