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    Are there any good pre-fab coops?

    We were in the same boat as you, but then the wife kept buying more chicks during the pandemic. We had about 16-17 living in our garage in a hastily built chicken cage. She built temporary enclosures outside to keep the hawks at bay. Meanwhile, I decided to build a proper coop. There was some...
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    Emergency - Hen not able to walk, leg dislocated?

    So sorry for your loss. Sometimes, they pass no matter how hard we try to keep them alive.
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    Emergency - Hen not able to walk, leg dislocated?

    With regards to Marek's disease, our vet told us a story about this. He had a person who wanted brand new chicks innoculated against Marek's disease. They were barely hatched when he innoculated all of them. They had no outside contact with the world, and there was no way they could have been...
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    Emergency - Hen not able to walk, leg dislocated?

    I would try these things, if I were you. 1. See a vet. He/she can definitely give you a diagnosis on what's wrong with your chicken. The sooner the better. 2. I would get Emeraid's avian nutrition formula. A prescription is required from your vet, if he/she doesn't have it in stock. I would give...
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    Emergency - Hen not able to walk, leg dislocated?

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    Rufus the rooster not feeling well at all

    Was his tail bobbing? Or just moving from eating? If it was bobbing, that is a sign that they aren't getting enough oxygen. We've had quite a few birds like that. We took them to the vet, they almost all were sick and died due to Marek's disease. I'm told it is quite common in backyard flocks.
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    Chicken Mansion, but no chickens. (New Ideas Welcome, mostly just a read about my struggles)

    My wife bought the chicks first. We ended building something in the garage to keep them in. This was probably around April-May 2020. I built a chicken coop 20'x8' with a pitched roof from plans I found on youtube. It took until Sept-Oct 2020 to finally get chicks to stay inside most of the day...
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    Help baby chick has strange bugs on it

    We use Elector PSP. We saw a video on youtube about this. It's expensive, but non-toxic. You don't have to worry about a bird (or yourself) breathing in dust. You just use a spray bottle to squirt the stuff on your bird(s), and that's it. You can use it to spray bedding, coop, etc, too. YT:
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    Our poor chicken had gout

    Thank you, Cate1124. We love our chickens and hanging out in the backyard with them. We think these might be our last chickens, but we just don't know yet. They are so sweet. Maybe those type of decisions are the price for having them in our lives.
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    Our poor chicken had gout

    Thanks for the kind words. She was so kind, gentle, and curious. I still miss her greatly. We also have another chik'n whose had cancer since early 2023, if not earlier. We are using amikacyn (sp?) and deramaxx on her. She gets her belly drained regularly, but we are needing "luck" to get more...
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    Our poor chicken had gout

    We put down our chicken today. She had gout. She had swelling of her feet for the past 1-2 weeks, but the gout may have occurred even before then. Our vet said that if we caught it early by testing kidney function, there was some treatment, but with the swelling it's like she's walking on razor...
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    Sick chicken and I'm inexperienced, please help?

    We've had bad luck with chicks bought from Tractor Supply. 6 out of 7 chickens purchased at TSC are already dead due to Marek's disease. One is still alive, but she has cancer due to Marek's disease. They were fine for the 1st 2 years, and in the 3rd year started getting sick. It's a minor...
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    Dark red lump under wing

    If you can find a vet that knows about chickens, they can help a lot when these kind of things happen.
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    Tractor supply or hatchery?

    Buy them from a hatchery that properly vaccinates their birds for Marek's disease. We bought several chicks from TSC and all are dead from Marek's and the cancer they get due to Marek's, except for one. She will die, too, from cancer. But she has a stubborn will to live.
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    Tractor Supply has chicks!!!!!

    We got our first and 3rd batch of chickens from Tractor Supply. All but one has died from Marek's disease. They all got cancer. There is one still living that has tumors, but she has a stubborn will to live. We've taken them all to the vet to get treatment. Treatment has been very expensive. One...
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