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    Looking for good quality Buckeye breeder

    Welcome to BYC. Join the Buckeye Facebook group if you're looking into Buckeyes. Lots of breeders there who breed to the Standard! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553423219700 has stock descending from Shumaker's line which won lots of awards at show. heritagemeadowsfarm.net is a...
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    Ideas for a small coop + run

    Hey all, I would like to know if there’s any recommended blueprints I could follow for a small-scale, economical, and straightforward housing system I could build for two hens that I would like to separate from the rest of the flock. I would like to fence off a small section around the area...
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    Hen with swollen eye

    Note: I forgot to get a photo tonight, I’ll get one tomorrow morning. Hey all, I have a hen who I assume had her eye pecked at. I noticed it last night. Her eyelid was a little bloody and swollen all around the eye. It was completely sealed shut. It was the same today, didn’t look any better as...
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    Single chick during hatch has separation anxiety

    Will do. They don’t seem to mind him too much and they’re too busy cuddling each other and staying away from me. So how should I go about it? How long should I leave him/her unattended? S/he has 2 other brooder mates, adequate space, heat, food, and water. I’ll try my best to incorporate them...
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    Single chick during hatch has separation anxiety

    I do all of the chicken chores and I want the chick to like me, but be able to go without me for a couple hours at time without being frantic. It doesn’t like being beyond 2 feet away from me at all times and will just chirp loudly for hours. He doesn’t give in. As soon as I make my appearance...
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    Single chick during hatch has separation anxiety

    Hey all, Going to be concise. I had a bad hatch where I only got one chick. He is two days old. It has imprinted on me and screams bloody murder when it can’t see me anymore. It was fine when it wanted to sleep in the incubator all day after it had hatched but now it is restless and wants to be...
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    Sick hen(?)

    Bumping to update on her situation: she’s dead. What she had was quick, she showed symptoms for 3 days before abruptly just passing. Didn’t seem worse this morning when I let her out, but I came home and she was dead. It’s been hours because her body is stiff and cold. Whatever it was I hope it...
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    Sick hen(?)

    I got SMZ from my vet which is what they had/recommended. I used it in the past to treat egg yolk peritonitis(?), and it worked very well. .5 mL a day for 7 days. I’m doing the same thing now, but it doesn’t seem to be doing much. She’s still drinking, haven’t seen her eat though. I was thinking...
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    Sick hen(?)

    Going to bump my previous post, she’s definitely on a fast decline. She’s hardly active now and wants to sleep in a corner. Enough strength to move in and out of the coop though. I can’t get her to drink or eat often but I’ve seen her do it. I’ve gotten some SMZ into her yesterday which is a...
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    Sick hen(?)

    She’s probably 5-6 lbs if I had to guess. I don’t know if her eggs have been thin shelled, but I do know some eggs break often, but I’ve attributed that to the hens fighting around the nesting boxes. When I collect multiple times a day to avoid broken eggs (when I can), they’re all hard-shelled...
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    Sick hen(?)

    Crop was emptied, it’s not a crop issue. I put her by herself just so she can relax and eat without any competition. She slept in a nesting box last night, she never does that. Is there a general poultry antibiotic I could give her? I’m certain it’s bacterial.
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    Sick hen(?)

    Hey all, I have a hen who’s pretty lethargic. Noticed it yesterday. She’s sitting around a little during the day which is unlike her , comb is drooping, and she has a pasty green-yellow fecal discharge. She’s also sleeping on the coop floor tonight which is very peculiar for her. Besides that...
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    Hen having trouble walking

    Hello, I have a five year old Dominique hen who’s having trouble walking. She stumbles around and can’t put weight on the leg well. Her toes are also curled slightly inward. It started around yesterday when she got out of her area and with some of the roosters (I keep her physically separated...
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    Hen won’t come outside of coop

    Hey all, I have a 5 year old Dominique hen who’s became a recluse. She almost never comes out of the coop by herself, she just sits in there all day and I don’t know what to do about it. She looks healthy, eats and drinks normally when I bring her out, and doesn’t act sick in any way. The only...
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    Selling hatching eggs

    Could I possibly cross a blue splash ameraucana and a blue splash maran and get blue splash olive eggers?
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    Selling hatching eggs

    Hey all, I want to start selling hatching eggs online (Ebay, etc..) just as a side profit to pay for my chickens. Problem is, I don’t know what would sell well. I’m looking to get around half a dozen new birds for breeding, either a hybrid or a purebred lineage. I have ideas of starting a...
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    Immobile hen

    I forgot to say this, but there is no possible way she was attacked or anything besides her flock mates or one of my two roosters, but she’s my biggest hen and they hardly mess with her.
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    Immobile hen

    Alright. I know there’s nothing I can do if it’s Mareks, and I don’t know if the previous owner had them vaccinated so it’s always a possibility. I’ll try everything listed and get back to you if her condition better or worsens.
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    Immobile hen

    Hey; sorry for the delayed response. Been busy with family. She isn’t pooping much (this is the only i could find). All of this happened overnight. I woke up one morning and she was laying on the coop floor and wasn’t able to get up. She can move around a little bit but she can’t pivot. I find...
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    Immobile hen

    I cleaned the dirty out of her nose after this photo; her nostrils aren’t clogged or runny, she’s just been falling on her face a lot.
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