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    Not emergency, lots of blood, hoping I did the right thing...

    Hi! I thought I had am emergency but now I'm thinking it's ok... can someone please "check" me? Found lots of blood all around, saw chicken with blood dripping from foot, get chicken picked up and found a very bloody side but no obvious lesion or anything, put her in a warm bath and I *think*...
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    SoCal: 2 Easter Egg Roosters to rehome

    Hope I have the right language - I don't know the exact parentage of these roosters, but they come from a breeder of colored eggs so they will sire colored eggs. I have 3 males from a clutch, and want to rehome 2 of 3. I am not even sure which to tell you to take; if you have a preference...
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    New to this forum, am I in the right place?

    Hi folks - Is this the right forum to learn about baby-adolescent chick behavior? We have 5 "babies" who are now young adults, I think. A couple days ago one, who I had been pretty sure was a he, announce his self with a very funny amateur cock-a-doodle-do. So funny, like a adolescent human's...
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    Persistent worms; help please?

    Hi folks - We've been on a long journey here with a new family, lice + worms discovered, multiple treatments and ultimately no success. An overly diligent and self-abnegating broody eventually hatched 5 of 7 eggs but developed lice, which were evidently secondary to worms. The lice was...
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    Broody mama has lice; 4d chicks do too. Now I’m wondering about all the other symptoms…

    I thought things were going great. I was wrong and I’m wondering what signs I’ve missed. Flock of 5 in SoCal. I was worried about worms a bit back, treated with Cori’s and thought all was fine. But I would occasionally see these poops with little white things on it. Dg thought it was...
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    Help please: How can little teeny 4d old chicks have tiny wormies crawling out of their butts?

    They look so sweet and happy ... but this can't possibly be good. What to do oh sage ones please?! Thank you!!
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    4 of 7 out I think? Now what.... advice please; ty!

    Everyone's shifted status around here, a bunch of whining aunties running about and we're grandparents!! I told a friend or two this and they got so freaked out and shocked I forgot that we're not _actual_ grandparents - dunno why my human friends are not amused. Anyway - y'all understand me...
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    Oh my, what on earth have I gotten us all into???

    Hi all - seems this is a whole new world to learn about. I have a nearly 4yo buff orpington who goes broody all the time, and is so right now. It's really hard to break her so I decided to see what she could do, purchasing 7 eggs yesterday. And now - yikes, I realize I know _nothing_ about...
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    blood trickling from vent - this can't be good...

    Hi - 5yo Rhode Island Red - she hasn't laid much for a good 2 years, when I give her calcium pills as suggested here, she used to lay sometimes sporadically but not for a good while. I've witnessed several no-shell and soft-shell eggs. Her tail end really droops and lots of gooky ick on the...
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    3yo RIR, egg problems? liver dz?

    Hi everyone - I'm trying to learn and read. It's hard to know what to dig into though on this gargantuan site! I'm concerned about a nearly-3yo Rhode Island Red. She's laid few eggs for several months now, since 2 of 4 of her flock died (perhaps earlier though). The ones she lays have very thin...
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    OMG this integrating is going to be a thing too, isn't it?!

    Well, I have had chickens for a few years now, but things have only recently "happened". And so now, suddenly, I realize there is so, so, so much to know.... Sorry to be annoying, obviously many here understand that what you know is prodigious. But how much I don't know is just beginning to...
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    Wry neck, how to know if this is a one-way slide?

    A second chicken of a flock of four is sick. The first seemed perhaps at first to have a sour or impacted crop; she died. There is a long thread about that. But when I finished attending to her, I realized her best mate in the flock was walking in tight circles. Oh no. Things have gone downhill...
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    3yo araucana - I guess "sour crop" sounds right???

    Sorry - I have chickens but zero idea what to do or even how to diagnosis when things go wrong. And - y'all are so knowledgeable and prolific I'm actualy finding it a little hard to figure out here where to go for this. Bottom line - I have a lethargic, miserable little araucana. She's usually...
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    Can anyone identify this chicken breed please?

    Thanks for your thoughts! (it's feral and someone else was asking).
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    How long to restarting the eggs after broody?

    Hi folks - I am so ignorant about all of this I appreciate the wisdom. I looked for this topic but cannot seem to find it, I'm grateful to study more if someone can point me to what I'm missing! I have a buff orpington who just loves to go broody. No rooster. She's so determined, it's almost...
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    Questions about squatting

    Does squatting have various meanings? Recently my hens (1.5yo, starting their second year of laying) have become more willing to be petted and I notice two of them will often squat at my feet - they seem actually to want to be petted. This is new, they used to hate being touched, period. Then...
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    Scabs on crest -- Patient survived but now...

    My "Trigo" survived a possum attack and the gashes inside of her have actually healed however... her comb was growing paler even while she seemed more or less back to normal behaviorally. And now I see these scabs on her comb. Which has also shrink considerably in size I see looking back at...
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    Gored by a possum

    I have a 1.5 yo Rhode Island Red that was gored 5 days ago by a possum. She's good at hiding the wounds and my husband didn't notice how badly she is injured. Though I may have made her worse by trying to clean her up yesterday (when I returned from out of town). Attached is a picture of the...
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    Yikes - Advice needed about hurt chicken....

    A possum got at my flock of four. My husband rescued one from underneath a possum and thought the chicken was ok but... when I returned home 3.5 days later I am discovering she's walking about with literal holes in her sides. ¿Should I do anything? ¿Is there anything to be done? If she's...
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    Egg shell: pulverized or crackled?

    Hi - I've always just crackled up the eggs' shells we use and feed em back. They seem to disappear, more or less. But I noticed recently someone actually using a food processor to pulverize them and add the powder to the feed. Is this necessary? Maybe... answered as a function of whether you've...
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