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    Coughing chicken

    Help please. My 8 year old light Brahma is coughing. She had this issue several years ago but I can’t remember what I treated her for. None of the others had it then nor do they now so I’m relatively certain it’s not contagious. She eats, drinks and does all things she typically does including...
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    Molting Hens

    Three of my girls have begun molting (again). Is it normal for them to molt during the summer months? They haven't been laying for a few weeks but I assumed it was due to the heat and the fact that they are 4+ years old. They all molted in November/December. Could this be something serious? I...
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    Black Australorp got sick and died in 24 hours

    My beautiful Black Australorp, Mattie was fine day before yesterday but when I took treats out to them last evening, she didn't come running. I offered her some out of my hand and she ate only one mealworm. She was drinking water however. I took her a frozen bottle of water to see if she was...
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    Bantam just quit laying

    I have a 2 1/2 year old bantam EE that just stopped laying about two months ago. Three of my other girls molted about that time, she didn't. She is not eggbound and goes about the business of being a bossy little bantam as usual each and every day. Not every having had bantams, I don't know if...
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    Crowing hen?

    My two year old "alpha" hen, a black Australorp, has begun to try to crow. Just in the last couple of days. She sounds like a rooster with laryngitis; it is really quite funny. What is up with this? BTW, I am absolutely, positively certain that she is a hen. Anyone else have a crowing hen?
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    Strange new behavior in bantam EE

    I have an almost two year old bantam EE. In the last ten days or so she has started behaving very strangely (even for her) before actually settling down to lay her egg. She runs in and out of the coop numerous times and when she goes in she jumps up and down - will even jump up onto the roost...
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    Personality change after molting?

    My two Light Brahmas have always been the aggressive ones in my little flock but since Dolly molted she has been just downright mean - has even pecked at me a couple of times and won't let my little bantam EE get up on the roost at night if I don't intervene. She was very withdrawn while...
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    Moulting question

    I have 5 hens that are 15 months old. All 5 were hatched together, but not all the same breed. One of them (a Light Brahma) began moulting almost 2 weeks ago but none of the others are showing any signs of losing any feathers at all. Wouldn't they moult at about the same time or am I just being...
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    HEN trying to mount other hens

    Help! I have an 11 month old Light Brahma that is trying to mount the other girls and she is not at all gentle about it. This just started today. What's up with her? I have heard noises several different times today that were out of the ordinary and would go see just what is going on. There was...
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    Chicken with bumblefoot

    Hi central Floridians. I have a Lt Brahma that I have noticed limping for a couple of days. I suspect bumblefoot but due to my physical disabilities I'm not sure if I can do the procedure myself. Was wondering if anyone out there knew of a vet in Pinellas County that will treat chickens.
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    Broody one day not broody the next?

    I have a Light Brahma approx 7 months old who acts like she is going broody - sits on whatever eggs are in the nest - for as long as 18-24 hours then it's over and she is completely back to b eing herself. She has always been a "special"** chicken but she has done this three times in the last...
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