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    Losing Chickens to Unknown Causes?

    Thanks! We'll try the corid and see if that helps prevent future losses. A big difference between the two groups of chickens is our original layers were vaccinated for cocci when we purchased them from McMurray. These chicks were only vaccinated for Marek's through Meyer. I just hate losing...
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    Losing Chickens to Unknown Causes?

    We purchased two dozen chicks from Meyer, and they will be 13 weeks old tomorrow. Starting around week 7-8, these chicks started dieing from an unknown cause. The chicks that passed were large, appeared healthy, active, etc. We lost our 5th chicken today. This morning, all chickens were fine...
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    Swollen cheek on chicken? Tumor?

    Has anyone ever seen something like this before? I just saw it for the first time on one our chickens this morning. Other chickens don't appear to have anything similar, but we're going to do a more thorough inspection this afternoon. She's acting normal. Eating and drinking fine. She's a...
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    Lethargic, weight loss

    Wife here, we threw down some mealworms for the girls tonight. We noticed that she went up to where we threw them down and started pecking around, but she never actually connected with a mealworm.
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    How soon would you let a broody hen with chicks into flock?

    So we had a hen go broody for the first time, and we moved her from the nest box into a rabbit pen with her eggs. We set the rabbit cage on the floor of our chicken coop so that she was still around the other chickens, and gave her her own food and water. Her chicks hatched out last night, and...
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