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  1. KarenWoman

    sick chicken walking sidways

    Maryland is a RIR about three years old. She is going through a hard molt. Almost bald but feathers is coming back. She is also wobbling like she is drunk.She is a trooper. Still getting on the roost and eating with the other girls even tho they like to peck at her. We live in Missouri and the...
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    We are in Missouri and snow is coming this weekend. So I made my girls a special surprise. A Double

    Here is the ingredients. First layer is meal worms. keeps the thing from sticking to the pan. Then i mix corn meal with eggs, cracked corn, meal worms, molasses, honey,oats. The second layer is corn meal, oats, and peas and carrots, I added some cayenne pepper to keep them warm. Meal worms on...
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    no eggs!!!!

    My girls are in the second year of life and this is their first molt. It is a mild molt. I am use to getting approximately 11 to 14 eggs a day. Now they are molting and the weather is getting cold, my girls are not laying. I give them oats with tuna and meal worms. lots of protein. one day i...
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    I have a egg eater.

    One of my chickens are eating her own eggs. She is not pecking through the other eggs in the nest. I am trying to break her by removing all eggs every three hours. My question is: Will the eggs ( that have yoke on them) be okay to eat after washing? Or does the yoke penetrate through the shell...
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    Sick hen laid unusual egg

    My hen was not feeling well, and i knew this because her cone was turning a blackish color. I did not know what was wrong so i started with the basics. We gave her a bath and lubed her puter up with a lot of Vaseline. The next day she laid a black egg. She is a New Hampshire Red and her eggs...
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    Little gray bugs flying all around my chickens?

    Anyone know what the little gray bugs are which appeared over night. My chickens did not have this problem yesterday. Today some of them look like pig pen from Charlie Brown. I looked at the feathers and there is nothing stuck in there and nothing on their vents. I dusted them with DE last week...
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    Please Help. Sick RIR. Egg-bound symptoms but still laid.

    Found one of my girls laying out side when it was time to come in. All she wants to do is sit. She feels warm, too warm. She does not make any sound. Pupils dilate.. There were large storms the last two days, not sure if that could affect her. Could she be in shock? She is also holding her tail...
  8. KarenWoman

    Bantam????

    We were told we have Rhode Island Red chickens but how do we know if that is what we have or are they the Bantam's. What exactly is the word Bantam? How can we tell the difference?
  9. KarenWoman

    walking backwards

    I have 18 chickens, this little girl is a new hampshire red. She is 16 1/2 weeks old. Sometimes she will walk backwards into us. Then continue to walk forward with the rest of the flock. She looks healthy. She eats well. The only thing I see is her walking like that. Its not all the time. None...
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