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    Impacted crop again after surgery

    I know impacted crops come up regularly on the forums but my girl has an impacted crop again within hours of having surgery for it. So was just looking for some advice My little Pekin called Hulk who's about 2 years old had an impacted crop earlier in the week. We'd just moved to a new house...
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    Is my chicken depressed?

    I've got a baby polish hen who is about 4 months old. She has started growing her head feathers so her visibility is reduced. The last few weeks she has been isolating herself from the group and spending as much time as she can on perches. She will literally spend hours on her own and not...
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    Will broody hen adopt chicks?

    Thanx they're safely back inside now, she's the bottom of the pecking order in our flock and so friendly I really thought she was going to adopt them but as soon as she saw them she started screeching. I held one in my hand to protect her from getting pecked and she kept going for her. I'll keep...
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    Will broody hen adopt chicks?

    My older hens always attacked the chicks. I had to wait months until I could intergrate them. I've got a broody hen she just hatched her first two chicks. I only thought one would hatch so I brought some extras just incase. These chicks are now 2 weeks old. Are they too old to go under her? I...
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    Mother keeps walking off pipped egg

    Shes only a young hen, about 10 months old so when she went broody I didnt think anything of it. After about a week looked under her and she had collected everyones eggs 3 were fertile so I left them there not expecting her to stay on them. Obviously they were all laid at different times so the...
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    Mother keeps walking off pipped egg

    My broody hens egg has pipped but she keeps walking off with the older chick! What is the best course of action? I dont have an incubator just a broody coop with heatlamp. She does seem to be spending time sitting on the egg but will get up and walk off every 15mins or so. Should I take the...
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    Confused

    Thankyou for your advice. She's been fine for the last few days so I popped her back in with the others, she seemed nice and happy and back to her usual self. I tried her with soaked feed and massaging her crop I thought all was fine then I found her dead a minute ago when I went to close them...
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    Confused

    The other day my 9 month old orpington bantam was absolutely fine, acting completely normal. This morning I came in to feed them and she was on her back in the coop eyes closed and legs twitching as if she was going through the latter stages of a painful death. I rushed over to her and put her...
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    Red swollen abdomen

    Hi I've noticed my 3 year old bluebell hybrid has a very swollen abdomen below her vent. The skin is very red. There's no feathers on her belly but new ones have started to grow. She is due for a moult because she's looking a bit tatty bless her. She hasn't laid an egg for weeks now. She isn't...
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    bloody disfigured bum amd very weal chick. please help :'(

    I've worked out its a prolapsed vent. Any suggestions on how to help her?
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    bloody disfigured bum amd very weal chick. please help :'(

    My two polish eggs hatched Thursday evening I moved them to the brooder last night and this morning I've noticed that one of them is very weak, can't walk as if she hasn't got the energy to. I tried giving her a sugar solution. As I was doing it I noticed her bum has a dried up bloody bit...
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    Help, one day old chick not doing well

    My chick is exactly the same. Its as if shes too weak to stand up properly and move around. Her sibling is doing great but she just lies there and pants. I'll try her with your egg soup!
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    No development in any of the eggs -what went wrong?

    How do I check they're fertile? I see him mating with the chickens on multiple occassions throughout the day, weve only got 3 hens and he's got them all to himself. So at least he's doing that bit. They don't seem to respect him as a cockerel, I don't know if thats got anything to do with it...
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    No development in any of the eggs -what went wrong?

    I've just incubated my first batch of eggs, today was hatch day but I cracked open the eggs and there was no development in any of them, not even a few blood vessels. All the eggs were from my own flock. 6 eggs were from my young polish who's less than a year old and one egg from my hybrid...
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    Mareks Disease

    Thankyou I'll have to check where I can get some over here.Sounds like a bit of a fix all solution so probably handy to have in the house. Shes going to the vet tomorrow so fingers crossed for her. I know 2 of my hens are vaccinated but the other 2 were brought as eggs along with Magneto our...
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    Mareks Disease

    Hi I'm fairly new to chicken keeping and my 8 month old sumatra is showing signs of Mareks. I cant bear the thought of putting her down! The last few days shes been walking with her tail really high and waddling like a duck so I thought maybe there was a problem with her abdomen so I gave her a...
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    walking wierd and keeps losing her balance??

    This mirnibg she was worse and was walking with hwr tail so high it was like she was trying to srand on tippy toes. Is this the signs of Mareks disease? I really hope not this morning I isolated her from the other chickens but she got quite distressed so I put my favourite chicken in with her...
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    7 Month old roo not walking well (when he walks) Partial Paralysis?

    Found this thread. Hope its not against the rules of posting. http://www.thepoultrysite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=39845
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    7 Month old roo not walking well (when he walks) Partial Paralysis?

    This is exactly whats happening to my sumatra girl roughly the same age. Is he waddling almost like a duck? I.e swinging his bum with each step. Mine keeps losing her balance aswel.
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    walking wierd and keeps losing her balance??

    Hi my 9 month old Sumatra is walking really strangely. She's walking kind of straight legged and almost waddles like a duck. She keeps losing her balance and falling over. She didnt sleep on her perch last night and it looks like she's having difficulty hopping up onto things. Anyone...
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