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    Annoyed with a vet! *pics too*

    My chicken Milly has been poorly for a week, now. Not eating, not drinking unless - and this is weird - i trickle some water onto the ground, and then she will drink it off the stone floor where it pools. We've tried all sorts, but so far no luck. So tonight took her to the vets, this was a...
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    LS hen poorly

    Milly, my LS, isn't acting herself. She's 5 years old, has always been healthy before, lays the odd egg every now and then. The chickens are fed corn, grit, odd treats such as apples, raisins, cereal, lettuce, cabbage. She was fine yesterday, active, alert and eating well. Today she is just...
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    Hen acting like she has something stuck in her throat?

    Our just-gone 5 year old BSL hen, Penny, has been acting like she has something stuck in her throat. She is eating, scratching and laying eggs just fine. However today she was drinking quite a lot, and after drinking would stand with her beak open and shake her head. She was scratching at her...
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    funny & cute pics of my chickens :) *warning, pic heavy!*

    Here are some funny and a few just cute photos of my chickens that have been taken over the years, and i feel like sharing. Hope you enjoy them, and sorry there are so many These are photos of our little boy 'Midget,' one of the chicks from our first incubator hatch. He was bullied as a...
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    Two mystery chickens! What breed are they, please?

    So a friend got these chickens but can't keep them anymore as they have 'grown too big' for their coop. She was trying to re-home them and asked if i would be willing to take them on as i have chickens. However i can't as i think one is a boy (right??) and i can't keep roosters. They are very...
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    panting hen - what's going on??

    Recently our 5 year old black sex link hen, Penny, will sometimes start panting in her sleep. She will face the ceiling and open her mouth and pant. This only happens at night when she's sleeping, and only then when she is laying / sitting down. It seems to stop when she roosts on a perch or...
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    My 13-week-old chicks are leaving

    We originally hatched out five chicks, but with four boys and just one girl we knew they couldn't stay together for long. At ten weeks old three of the boys were re-homed, and my dad's friend (a farmer) asked if he could have the remaining boy and girl when they were a few weeks older. We said...
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    Help! Fighting chick...

    My five chicks will be ten weeks old on Tuesday. We have four boys and one girl (what rotten luck...) but none of the boys are crowing yet and they have all gotten along famously until now. In the past they will run up to each other and bob up and down, maybe have a peck...but that was it...
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    10 week old chicks, dodgy poops

    One of my 10 week old chicks is pooping mainly white liquid poops, and yesterday we spotted some blood in there. It's possibly more than one chick, but so far i've only seen one. All the chicks are acting fine in themselves. They have been going outside from four weeks old, and were moved out...
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    What on earth are these?? **pic heavy**

    Okay, here they are again! I posted when they were four weeks old and lots of people suggested loads of different breeds - with most people saying they were RSL. But aren't RSL males supposed to be white, or have i got that totally wrong? These were supposed to be RIR eggs (that's what we...
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    10 week old chicks, dodgy poops!

    So i didn't know whether this should go in Emergencies or here, but i opted to put it here...is that right? Basically one of my 10 week old chicks is pooping mainly white liquid poops, and yesterday we spotted some blood in there. It's possibly more than one chick, but so far i've only seen one...
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    7 week old chick question...

    My little babies are now not-so-little babies at 7 weeks old. They are such beautiful babies, although out of five chicks four are boys But they are sweet little boys and we have already checked with a nearby farmer that he wants them when they are fully grown. They can free-range with his...
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    What breed & gender are these 4 week old chicks??

    We bought fertile rhode island red eggs, but when the chicks were a few weeks old it soon became obvious that they weren't RIRs...can anyone suggest a breed? I posted about two weeks ago when we first reasiled they weren't what we thought they were, and we got loads of suggestions such as red...
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    2 week old chick not eating, please help...

    We've got five previously healthy chicks. I noticed a few days ago that one did a poop that was clear liquid, and read on here that it was probably due to the chick not eating and having nothing to poop out. Well this chick is one of our tamest and loves cuddles and has been acting fine, but on...
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    I don't think my RIR chicks are RIR...*pics*

    We ordered RIR eggs and hatched them out, and everything looked fine. They were gorgeous yellow fluff balls...but now they're over a week old and are growing their first feathers, and after looking at pics on here of other people's RIR chicks, ours are not the same! Their feathers are a white /...
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    Can you use straw?

    I have five, week-old RIR chicks. They are in their new brooder and happily scratting in the pine shavings. They've been in there for about 3 days now, so i'm thinking it's time to clean them out...My question is, is straw okay to use instead of shavings? We only have a few shavings left and...
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    Can anyone post a pic of a pip?! *edit* We have a chick PICS!!

    It's Day 20, just beginning, and we think we have a pip...a piece of shell has gone and there's white (membrane?)...there's no hole so we can't actually see into the egg, just a missing piece of shell. There's no peeping...is this okay?? Very nervous Thankyou in advance!
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    Day 18 - humidity??

    We borrowed this incubator off a friend of my dad's. I think it's a Brinsea Octagon 20 MKIII ?!?!? That's what it says on the front of the instruction manual thingy anyway... The incubator doesn't have anything to measure humidity with, which has has me worried for the last 18 days, but we've...
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    Weeping egg?

    We were turning the eggs this morning and there was some crusted yellow stuff on the outside of the shell of an egg. We took the egg out and made the room as dark as possible to candle (however we are apalling at candling ) and we discovered a crack, which you can faintly see and feel in normal...
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    Candling with a torch?

    Right, i just wondered how important candling is? Do people candle eggs because it's really cool to see the chicks developing, or is it for safety reasons...like to take an egg out to stop it exploding or something? Last time we were hatching eggs under a broody, we candled the eggs with a...
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