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  1. S

    17 week black Orp seems flat - please help 😭

    Hey ya’ll. First time raising chickens - I’ve had them from 3 days old. Now 17 weeks old. My Black Orp is usually the most excitable and energetic of the bunch, seems off yesterday and again today. She’s not totally lethargic but noticeable not herself. I waited for her to poop, and it seems...
  2. AC56

    Boiled yolk like mass inside dead hen

    Hi all, I have noticed one of hens being unwell. Assumed egg bound. Made bath for her etc. But her belly was massive like a ball, she was panting and walking like duck. We gave another two days, but decided to put out of misery. Only two options in Internet are water belly or egg bound. None of...
  3. Azaia

    Very Unusual Soft Egg WITH Umbilical Cord

    The soft egg in the picture is on the compost heap. One of my Burford Browns has been laying a small collection of strange eggs this week. She's still a pullet and it's winter here in England though she hasn't gone through a molt that ive noticed and im with them quite a lot. Her eyes have...
  4. Chickens_and_Cats

    Any ideas? Or solutions?

    We have a chicken called Maple, she is the bottom of the pecking order. A few months ago, she had barely any feathers as one of the other birds had been pecking the tips of her feathers. Now, her feathers have grown back and the chicken who used to peck her now wears “chicken spectacles” which...
  5. Equiem

    Not sour crop - doughy crop to fluid filled and not emptying - ADVICE PLEASE

    Prudence is my one original ex-battery hen that has never had to go to the vets... yet! She is 13 months free after being rescued from slaughter in March of 2018. I am in the UK and she is one of 6! Background: Thursday morning, she was slow to come out so I caught her (much to her disgust -...
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