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today I opened up the chicken coop for my brother. Duck was STANDING on the roost right were I left her SITTING the night before. for some reason she didn't jump down. now she is walking slowly but still she is walking which is good. Very, very slow steps. Now I must go to church but when I...

yesterday I found one of my hens lying on the floor unable to walk I was really worried about her all day but today she is a bit better think that perhaps in the next few days she will probably get better. But if she gets a worse limp then before and then she couldn't walk. mabye you should...

welcome from Boston, MA

duck, my sick hen is not so bad today she was walking a little bit outside with the other hens. I completely agree that there are situations when you have to cull, but I'm hoping this won't be one. Last night I let Duck sleep in the coop, in a nesting box away from the other hens. I was so...

We keep hens in Boston, MA and they are more like pets now than livestock. Also although we have six hens we only get about 2 eggs a day. at least two of my hens aren't laying but I think it's mostly because they just finished molting. We have chicken tractor which is what Duck went in all day...

I also gave my hen a bath and I looked up merak's disease. Thankyou for the info. Have you looked at the blog scratch and peck? http://scratchandpeck.blogspot.com/2010/02/lucy-limps.html the blogger has a hen who survives Merak's disease. It's really incouraging.

Is this a symptom of marek's disease? I hope not

Today I went to open up the coop and one of our hens was lying on the ground. She must have been asleep under the roost because she was covered in poop.There doesn't seem to have any thing wrong with her legs but when she try's to walk she collapses. also she has a lot of poop around her vent. I...

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Erica has gotten worse

Quote: Wanted to add i got some new info this morning. Hey peeps those who come to the chickenstock, Backyard poultry is donating some magazine to those who attend on July 10th, in return i am doing teh artical on our chickenstock and will be takeing pictures (with those permisions of course...

were from massachusetts to!!! we live in boston.

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The hens never slowed down egg production. But some of them only started to lay during the winter. Also there was another hen that is not mentioned because a few weeks ago she had be put down. We are thinking it may have been a weasel. But she was the same breed, size and practically everything...

If it was a mini molt wouldn't the chickens who started to lose feathers first, have grown back their feathers? I think it was boredom because this past winter was pretty bad and the door to the run ended up six feet under the snow drifts. But how do you get chickens to regrow their feathers...

we have feather problems. For a while our hen has been looking like this https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=414282 She is a Easter Egger, she is at the bottom of the pecking order. So we made her a saddle.... she looks pretty digruntled.:)that didn't work because she...

We also just joined and live in Boston. http://hensonahill.com/