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    Sick guinea

    I have two guinea fowls in with my chickens. The one came with chickens that I had bought several years ago. The farmer said she just flew in with his chickens one day and took up residence. I know that's possible because last fall I came home and had one in my yard. He decided the first...
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    Rotten Eggs?

    We have 10 chickens and 1 guinea fowl. I know the age of 3 of the chickens (2 years and 1 1/2 years). I do not know the age of the rest but do know they have gone through at least 1 molt. The problem is that one of them is laying eggs that are bad after 2 or 3 days. They either start...
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    Respiratory Infection -- now not eating, lethargic

    I have a red sex link hen one of 12 I got last fall. Took her to the vet yesterday because she had a rattling breathing sound....very congested sounding. He said she had a respiratory infection but not an upper one. He gave my Tylon to put in her water and she went into quarantine when I...
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    Prolapsed Uterus

    I have a Red Sex Link who is at least one year old .... I've only had her about 2 1/2 months.... Yesterday afternoon I noticed her butt looked "funky". Upon closer inspection I saw her insides hanging out about one inch. I came in and did a search for prolapsed uterus and read through...
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    Fleas? Mites? Now on me!

    I've been reading through the other posts regarding fleas and mites on my chickens. I've had most of mine for 1 1/2 years now, the others I've had for about 6-8 weeks. We have indoor only cats. Yesterday after doing work in the coop I suddenly have these little bug things showing up in my...
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    Watery poop, lethargic, staying off by self

    We added 1 guinea fowl and 10 sex link hens to our flock of 3 hens approximately 5 weeks ago. About 2 weeks ago one of the black hens acted unusual that am when I went to let them out that morning. She would stand in the corner and didn't want to come out. I went to check on her a couple of...
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    Thin Shelled Eggs

    We added 10 chickens and 1 guinea fowl to our flock about one month ago. They were all around 1 year old. My 3 hens I already had are 1 1/2 yrs old and 9 months old. I knew that I would have thin shelled eggs or shell less eggs due to the stress of adding/moving chickens. This has happened...
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    Insulating and heating old metal shed

    Hubby has graciously allowed me to turn his old metal shed into the new chicken palace. Friends are helping with the construction/remodeling of said shed. I have some questions though regarding insulating and heat lamps. The walls and ceiling are metal, floor is wood. They will be...
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    One hen quit laying and no one sings anymore

    So I rehomed the RIR rooster a few weeks ago. Two weeks ago something killed the two bantams. Last week we had the earthquake, surprise bad storm and then Hurricane Irene. The day the bantams were killed was the last day my three hens (1 RIR and 2 Sex Link) all three laid an egg. I have...
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    Something got my bantam hens! (Somewhat descriptive)

    I heard the girls carrying on around 6 am today but thought it was their egg song. Went out later to feed and water them and found the 2 bantams dead in their cage. The big girls (RIR and Sex Link) were kind of running around their pen. The bantams had no head and were in the corners of their...
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    New member in Spotsylvania, Virginia

    I have only been doing the chicken thing for a year. Got into it because my autistic son wanted chickens and ducks. Agreed to the chickens but not the ducks. We have 1 RIR rooster and hen, 1 golden cochin(?), 1 bantam silkie and 2 sex link(?) hens. We also have 9 fish and 4 cats. Not...
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    Keep or rehome rooster?

    I am fairly new to the chicken keeping thing. Have only been doing it a year. My son is autistic and pestered us for a year for chickens and ducks. A friend with a farm gave us 1 RIR rooster and hen (Rudy and Peaches) and a golden cochin hen (Henrietta). Another friend gave us a silkie hen...
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    Silkie Bantam hasn't laid egg in 1 week -- acting strange

    I have only been doing the chicken thing for about one year now. Got into this because of my autistic son. He was given 1 RIR rooster and hen, 1 silkie bantam and 1 cochin(?) bantam last year. I purchased 2 sex link hens 2 months ago. The bantams are in one pen while the RIRs are in another...
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