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    Chick walking on ankles

    I'm so sorry. i hope your other chickens don't have this problem.
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    what is this chicken doing?????

    my chickens wings always are a little apart from their body but if it is the first time you have seen it check under their wings. there might be a bug or something that makes so they cant put them down
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    rhubarb

    we have a rhubarb plant in my yard the chickens love to eat the leaves and at first we were really worried but none of them have ever gotten sick from them. i dont try to feed it to them but they eat it anyway
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    Average Hatch Rate Thread

    Chicken Hatchers #eggs = 10 #chicks = 9 Average Hatch Rate =90% one of my chicks hatched and shortly died :(
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    Hatch Rates??

    awww buff orps are so cute. i've never heard of a 100% hatch from an incubator. i might have to try it now
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    first hatch 80% :)

    So in about January I decided that I wanted chickens. And not only did I want chicks I wanted to get eggs and have my silkie, Runt, my siblings named her and it stuck, hatch them. She’ll go broody and I think they were happy when I just let them sit. I went to the hatchery by my house and got 2...
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    Please critique this coop for me!!!

    that looks like a really good coop but to me the nesting box looks really high off the ground. the roof probably has hinges so it can close. because it has the run underneath you can put them in there for short periods of time if you need to mow the lawn or something. the roosts are fine and...
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    Chicken is sick: sitting quietly, tail feathers drawn down, drops of fluid coming from beak

    if it was clean then it might just be like a runny nose
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    can chicks be raised outside by their mother hen?

    this is deffidently not true! my broody silkies hatched 8 chicks and not a single one died. trust me just like we have an instinct to not put our babies outside in cold weather they do to and the mama's keep them plenty warm. when i was watching mine if one looked cold she would run over and sit...
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    Someone please help with my baby chick!

    hmmm i'm sorry i've never had this happen to me and i've never heard of something like it. the only thing i can even guess is that it atethe grass and couldn't digest it. so sorry
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    Hatch Rates??

    no but that is really good. i had 10 eggs under my broody and 1 was infertile and one died shortly after a 10 hr hatching period. 80-90% which is really good considering that many people only have a 50-60% hatch rate. did you use a broody hen or a incubator?
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    When can I intermingle my flock

    if they are in the coop but just sectioned off i would introduce them whenever you want but start off by putting a grown chicken in the chicks 'territory' then start by introducing them in the day when you are watching, alone all day with the other hens while seperating them at night (because...
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    Chicken is sick: sitting quietly, tail feathers drawn down, drops of fluid coming from beak

    fluid coming out of her nose is not a good sign. but separating her was a good choice. is her crop full or empty? if her crop will not empty she may have sour crop. basically food ferments in the crop and if it gets bad it may start to come back up. to tell if this is it smell her breath id it...
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    Urgent! Help!

    if it hatched this morning what might have happened is the egg didnt get turned enough so part of the skin stuck to the egg. the mama will push the shells out from underneath her check and see of anything is wrong with the egg. the mom might have pushed her out because she knew it wasnt gonna...
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    Broody business is new to us!

    ya i could never eat my chickens besides there isnt much meat on them anyway i only have ornamental chickens
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    Someone please help with my baby chick!

    so sorry to hear what is their bedding like? newspaper is a big cause of splayed legs. but as to why it got sick... i have no idea. as long as they have clean water and the right food it should be fine. i've read that some chickens have a very sensitive spot on the top of their head. if one of...
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    Crop stasis (sp)?

    smell their breath. crop stasis or sour crop is basically food in their crop that is fermenting. in the morning is her crop full or empty if it is still full it could be sour crop. or you can smell her breath if it smells kinda like sour milk or something similar that is probably what is is...
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    Chick walking on ankles

    go to this link it might be what you are looking for http://upatdawnlifeonthemountain.blogspot.com/2009/09/curly-toe-paralysis.html is it just her toes or are her legs spread apart? sometimes if chicks walk on slippery or waxy surfaces their legs 'splay'
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    shelless eggs

    give them some calcium i've never heard of completly shelless eggs but if my chickens egg shells get weaker and softer i give them a calcium supplemeny in their food. it looks like little white rocks that you just mix into their food.good luck
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    Urgent! Help!

    im so sorry if you think it will happen again maybe try to move the momma and babies to a safer place.
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