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    Chick eye deformity or injury?

    I actually kept her with the group. I asked an ag teacher at the high school I teach at and he said he believes she is just blind. So I am hoping she will be just fine.
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    Chick eye deformity or injury?

    Thanks justplainbatty for the help. I think we're gonna separate her and see what happens. Thanks!
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    Chick eye deformity or injury?

    Here's the best I could get open. It's so small and sunken. . .like mush. Ugh. . . I knew we should have gotten the chicks where we usually did, but of course my daughter was with us and wanted some that day!
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    Chick eye deformity or injury?

    It doesn't look exactly like that one, I would say more like an old dog's eye when they have that cloudy cataracts look. And the size is odd too, just small. I'm not even sure if they are vaccinated either. We got them at Tractor Supply. I don't normally get my birds there. I'm going to...
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    Northeast peeps. Are your hens laying?

    We're in NJ and we have 5 hens. Most of December - February we were lucky if we got 1 egg a day, usually none. Just the past 2 weeks , they are back to normal and everyone is laying! This was the first winter we ever had them slow down and/or stop.
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    Chick eye deformity or injury?

    We have some new chicks, about 2-3 weeks old and today I noticed the one keeps her eye shut most of the time. I picked her up and checked her out closely and she did open it. The eye is very small and cloudy. Other than that, she is growing at a normal rate and seems to be doing fine. What...
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    Dying Hen - entire body swollen

    I found one of our hens in the yard part of our coop this morning, just laying there. She was extremely puffy and swollen(entire body blown up, including her head), shallow breathing and couldn't move. I moved her out of the coop and put in her in a separate area. I know it's a matter of...
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    Mallard Duckling Growth Rate?

    We found 3 mallards in our pool the almost 3 weeks ago. Mom was nowhere to be found and they kind of hung around, so we decided to keep them. We've raised plenty of chickens, but never ducks. As of now, I've just been giving them chicken feed. They are definitely eating and drinking, yet...
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    A few processing questions

    Thank you so much for you input. . . it helps greatly!
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    A few processing questions

    Raising our first meat birds and tomorrow is the day. We did kill/process one earlier, due to an illness, so that was our practice bird. Went well, but we didn't eat it cause we didn't know what was wrong with it. Anyway, my questions are more final processing/cleaning questions. 1...
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    What breed to order? First time

    Ok, so we have decided to start raising meat birds this spring. We've been doing the eggs, no problem. It seems that many go with the cornish. After, reading about them, I think they seem so unnatural. . .the whole way they were bred to grow so fast. . not into it. I don't mind if the...
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    Found dead chicken with serious pecking

    She is seperated. We have two left in the coop and it is obvious which one is doing the pecking, she has the bloody beak and you can just tell she is the dominant one. Wondering if she should be seperated? My husband is going to pick up some blu-kote, hoping that helps.
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    Found dead chicken with serious pecking

    Ok, starting to think we have a disease or their is a serious pecking issue. Found another dead today, same thing. . . severe pecking, bloody area around vent/anus. And, another is still alive, but has a big pecked/bloody area in the same spot. What do you think, pecking or disease? We...
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    Found dead chicken with serious pecking

    We have 5 hens and got our five eggs this morning. So sometime after that one either died or was pecked to death by the others. We are thinking it died of naturally and the others pecked it, would they do this? It has a huge pecked spot that was all bloody and featherless. Should we...
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    We won!!!

    This is our first year with chickens and just for the heck of it we entered their eggs into the egg show at the county fair. Well . . we won! I was shocked. Here is my daughter with the girls Unfortunately, this dozen is not the one we entered. Apparently, they throw them away. But...
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    Does the heat affect egg laying?

    It's been hot here in the northeast, about 100. My one hen just started laying about a week and half ago and we had another one start on Wed. Haven't had any eggs since Wed, it' now Saturday. Except this morning there was only a yolk, in one box. It's not the same box the other 2 have...
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    Hens picking on each other

    We have 5 sex links. This is the first we have ever raised chickens. Got them in March and already had one start laying this week. Anyway, there is one hen that has a bald spot on her neck. It seems to be getting bigger too. It's too high up for her to be doing it to herself, so another hen...
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