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    is my chicken evil? please help

    sweet thanks
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    is my chicken evil? please help

    i keep a flock of 5 hens. a few months ago i introduced 2 of them and the normal initiation pecks and shunning only lasted about 5 days... accept for 1 of them. she has been terrorizing these 2 for months. when she gets near them they run away, is this normal? luckily she allows them to sleep in...
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    my chicken is dying!

    good news! i think.... looks like its a leg injury thats making her walk funny, she seems to be favoring her right leg and mom said the left looks swollen i read that with leg injuries its best to just leave them alone and let them work themselves out. i hope this is the case. it was heart...
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    my chicken is dying!

    her poop is white and brown i think thats normal, but when she pooped it looked like she lost her balance and had to take a few steps back
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    my chicken is dying!

    it looks like shes trying to poop, do chickens get constipated?
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    my chicken is dying!

    ill see if i can catch her pooping today, she wont let me get close enough to check her for mites :(
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    my chicken is dying!

    about 3 weeks ago one of my chickens started acting funny, she would just sit there with her head tucked in and was very lazy, then she started having trouble walking like she was drunk or didnt have the strength. she died about 5 days after she started looking lazy. now another of my girls is...
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    Best Way To Feed Chickens

    we were using a hanging feeder, first we used regular feed but its really expensive so we switched to the pellets but the girls like to knock the food onto the ground and kick it around and pellets started turning into muddy clay stuff in the rain, so we switched back to regular feed and now i...
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    Black Star Butts & Cracked Eggs

    well at least the eggs dont crack so bad that the stuff comes out, just gotta be gentle with them
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    Naughty naughty fussy hen!

    one of my girls kept disappearing and we thought the worst each time, turned out she was building up a clutch of eggs hidden on the side of the house getting ready to brood. they can drive you nuts!
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    Black Star Butts & Cracked Eggs

    I have a black star hen, shes a really big girl. Her butt is so big that she has a white stripe under it from when she poops. also whenever she lays an egg its cracked and smooshed in on one end. So im wondering does she have an abnormaly high vent or does she have an abnormaly big butt? and...
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    24/7 lighting

    i know large egg farms do this to increase egg output but it seems kind of rude, is this bad for chickens? can they even get any sleep with the lights on 24/7?
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    Can Molting Affect The Pecking Order?

    Quote: X 2 Molting changes appearance and attitude of the chickens. Some hens become more aggressive, most don't want to be messed with. The 'pecking order' is a fluid, ongoing, changing social structure with those on the bottom always wishing to improve their position. And for the ones...
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    Best Place To Order Meal Worms On The Net

    Quote: hey thanks, i might try this out. they're soooooo expensive at petco, 8$ for 50
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    Can Molting Affect The Pecking Order?

    My 2 bantam brahmas have always been at the top of the pecking order but right beneath them it went snicklefritz - bantam dutch, fiddle faddle - leghorn, then poppycock - black star. fiddle faddle and poppycock are younger and were introduced to the brood late and were of course at the bottom...
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    Best Place To Order Meal Worms On The Net

    we've been looking at grubco.com since someone mentioned it on here but id like to hear where you guys are shopping and what youre paying... for crickets too. any input would be most helpful
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    Why aren't they laying?!

    chickens lay less as the days get shorter--- full guide Decreasing day length Days become shorter beginning June 22 and begin to lengthen again on December 22. In Oregon, day length decreases from nearly 16 hours of light at the beginning of summer to just over 8 hours at the beginning of...
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    Peeing Outside

    Quote: Ummmm, ya ok. You are definitely a better man than me. Not sure I could never write those words... oh boy but yes were sure youre refering to the distance from your neighbors
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    Peeing Outside

    Quote: i do have neighbors but thats not a problem because ive seen them seeing me doin my business and hevent had a complaint in 27 years it really doesnt make sense for a fella to go pee in a toilet
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    Peeing Outside

    Quote: wow that sounds logical. im not worried about the other critters' pee but, i take narcotic painkillers sometimes, and i take all sorts of antidepressant and bi polar meds so i dont have your good ol natural pee
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