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Bobberly eggs
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Bobberly eggs - One of my chickens has laid a strange egg it has all bumps on it, this is the 1st time is there anything wrong with her?
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Chick with a Blister
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Chicken with a blister: I got 2 chicks from the primary school yesterday. Even though I checked them over I missed the one with a blister ...
Pecking Order
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Pecking Order: How can I tell who is the "boss" in my group of eight chickens? I have 3 who are two weeks older then the others so I'm guessing ...
Hen maybe sick
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Hen maybe sick. Her comb is very cold and blue she is very sleepy and not eating much.
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The first thing I would do is try to get ...
Hen has lost voice
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Hen has lost voice: We have a 3 year old hybrid who appears perfectly healthy, i.e. eating & drinking normally and getting into mischief ...
Limp Neck
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Limp Neck: We live in Greece. We put a duck down yesterday because she could not lift her head off the ground - her neck had no rigidity ...
Swollen Breast
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Swollen Breast: I have a small Pekin who's breast has got very large. It is almost unable to walk. What could this be? Any help would be gratefully ...
How to Free Range?
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How to Free Range? This spring I raised nine sweet little fluff balls into adult hens (and one loud rooster)and love them! Within just a ...
Saving a Wounded Chicken
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Saving a Wounded Chicken: My new dog chased one of my five chickens. She has a wound on the back of her neck and a small wound above her ...
Pecking order
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Pecking order: I have 7 hens, all have the feathers at their neck missing except two. I haven't seen any aggression, should I isolate the ...
Why do chickens go bald
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Why do chickens go bald on their butts? What is it called when chickens go bald on their butts? What cause's them to go bald?
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Rescue Hen with Strange Ailment
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Rescue Hen with Strange Ailment: I am new to hens and have one hen from a batch obtained in the last 3 weeks that has an unusual ailment....
Sexing Barred Rock Chickens
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Sexing Barred Rock Chickens: How do you tell the difference between a young barred rock hen and a young barred rock rooster. They are almost ...
Water and Sugar for Chickens
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We have heard from other growers and farmers that if we put sugar in the water it gives the chickens energy is this true?
Doing this,...
URGENT Can mother hen brood the chicks?
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We are new chicken keepers. We bought two fertilized eggs to put under our broody hen. One of the eggs hatched yesterday. The surrogate mum ...
Pet Chickens
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Pet Chickens: I want to know which chickens make the best pets?
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If you are wanting a chicken just for companionship and are ...
What To Do if Chicken Does Not Eat Anything?
I have two chickens, both two months old. Both of them were so active,and smart, but for the last three days one chick does not eat anything. He can't ...
Dubbing
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Dubbing - when is the best time to dubb chickens?
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My personal preference would be never, though I know it is required for showing ...
Hard black lump on pullets chest
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Hard black lump on pullets chest: Our 3 month old Golden Sexlink pullet has a hard black lump on her chest. I have looked at pictures of a ...
Chicken traumatized
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Chicken traumatized: We had a Rhode Island Red and a silver lacy in a coop. They were both free roam and @ night would faithfully put themselves ...
Chicken feeling bad
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Chicken feeling bad:
1. Breed of chicken
Americauana
2. How old is the chicken
1 yr
3. List all symptoms
Limping
Lethargy
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Chicken Burrowing
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Chicken Burrowing: Are chickens supposed to burrow in the dirt?
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Chickens don't really burrow in the dirt as much as they scratch,...
Danish Brown Leghorn
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Danish Brown Leghorn: I have a 7 week old danish brown Leghorn that is having trouble walking. It started about a week ago and I thought ...
Sick Broilers
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Sick Broilers: I have 12 broilers and 17 Rhodes Island Reds and 4 Dominiques. All are about 10 weeks old. I feed them chick starter and ...
Dehydration
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Dehydration: I have a few chickens and I leave some smaller ones in a big box inside. My roommate put them out side after I left with no food ...
Chick Attacking Others
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Chick Attacking Others: I just received 12 chicks in the mail, and a Welsumer (large chick) is flying at and violently pecking the other chicks....
Mixing Species
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Mixing Species: We have what we believe is a Catalana hen. A friend is looking for a home for an Araucana hen. Our Catalana has been our ...
Replacing hens
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Replacing hens: I have chance to buy 2 month old hens of the same breed I already have. Are they old enough to put in with the older chickens ...
Chicken with Red Louse
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Chicken with Red Louse: I am seeing something strange like red lice on my chicken. She is scratching with her beak...and it is also transferred ...
One or Two Chinese Silkies
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One or Two Chinese Silkies: I want to get a Chinese Silkie. Can I just get one or do I have to get two to keep each other company?
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Quivering chicken
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Quivering chicken: We had a hen disappear while out in the yard, suspect a hawk. Another hen was found hunkering down and quaking. I thought ...
Sultans chickens
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Sultans chickens: I have a female Sultans, who is 5 months old.If I get some baby Sultans and put in with her, will she accept them, or be ...
White crest black polish
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How often do they lay eggs?
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I will answer soon, any comments welcomed.
Sharon please leave your email in your comments, I would ...
My chicken has no energy
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My chicken has no energy: I have 3 ex battery hens. I have had them for a couple of years .
I have noticed recently that one of my chickens ...
Our Araucana just sitting
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Our Araucana just sitting: One of our Araucanas is just sitting in one spot and breathing a little hard. Cannot see anything else wrong with ...
Sick Barnevelder Chick
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Sick Barnevelder Chick: I have a six month old Barnevelder pullet who is not right. I first noticed something was wrong when her right wing ...
Mean Chickens
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Mean Chickens: We have (did have) 6 chickens that were in a good size pen with a small turkey. The chickens have been pulling each others ...
Fluff
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Is it OK if my baby chicken is losing its fluff?
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It’s normal for the downy fluff of a chick to be lost as it’s replaced with hard ...
Seven hens and Six eggs
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Seven hens and Six eggs : We have eight chickens which were hatched 5/12/10: four Barred Plymouth Rocks, (three hens, one rooster); and four ...
Silkie Happy on Her Nest
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Silkie Happy on Her Nest: My Silkie appeared to be very broody. She was sitting on an empty nest for a week or more, so I slipped six fertile ...
What is Feed Concentrate?
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Kindly send me the list of ingredients used to make feed concentrate.
Response: You can buy your own in lots of places, although you may not be able ...
Motionless Chicken
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Motionless Chicken: On arrival from work one of my chickens is standing motionless not wanting to move at all.
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I would suggest ...
Sexing Orpingtons
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Sexing Orpingtons: How can you sex buff Orpington chicks at about 12 weeks of age?
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By twelve weeks there may or may not be ...
Ear Infections
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Ear Infections: My chicken seems to have an ear infection on the right hand side which is all blown up and puffy. What can I do to cure it?
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Sexing Minorca Chickens
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Sexing Minorca Chickens: We have two Minorcas that are about four months old. We are going to show them at our 4H fair and need to be able ...
Sleepy Time
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Sleepy Time: What are some things I can do to make my baby chick go to sleep through the whole night?
He/She is only four days old. I only ...
Sexing Half Grown Chickens
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Sexing Half Grown Chickens: I have three chickens about a third to halfway grown. The store who sold them to me couldn't say if they were ...
Male Buff Orpingtons
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Male Buff Orpingtons: How do you tell the males from females at the age of nine weeks?
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By nine weeks there may or may not be ...
Light Sussex with red bottom
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Light Sussex with red bottom: One of four chickens is molting which I know is normal, but she has a very red rear end. I have oiled the ...
Shots
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Do chickens need to have any shots? If so what do they help?
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Unless you have a sick chicken on your hands, most shots for chickens ...
Mean Mama Chicken
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Mean Mama Chicken: I work at a living history site that keeps a small flock of Bantam chickens, which we let range free around the site.
Recently,...
Sexing Baby Chicks
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Sexing Baby Chicks: How do you tell male from female in two and three week old chicks?
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Check out how on our sexing chicks page....
Put younger hens with older hens
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How and when is the best time to put younger hens with older hens?
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Adding a new hen is never a simple process. It is best to do ...
Skinny chickens
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Skinny chickens Answer
Do they seem to be fine in every other way? Is there any respiratory issue going on? If all seems well except for ...
Weak Legs
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What can I do for my chickens (White Sextons, I think,)
Fast growing meat birds. 5 weeks old and several of them can not walk. They can barely ...
Letting Them Out
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Letting Them Out: We've just bought six, six week old chicks which we have had for one week now.
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Under wing blister?
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One of my chickens has what looks like an air pocket or blister underneath one of its wings. When the wing is down at its side, it looks like ...
Sex of Chicks
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Sex of Chicks: How can I tell if my four week old chicks are male or female?
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Please refer to the feed page.
New Chickens
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New Chickens: My children and I started with four chickens, then we got eight more. We just got 15 more that did not come from a very good ...
Pecking
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How can i stop my chicken from pecking its eggs?
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It is more likely than not that the hen isn’t pecking the eggs to crack them. The ...
External parasites
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How do external parasites affect my chickens?
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External parasites can harm your hens in many ways. Some chew on the skin while others ...
Mixing different chickens
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Mixing different chickens: Can you keep different breeds of chickens together in a coop?
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Sure. I do and have for many years....
Setting a hen
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Setting a hen: We want to set a hen with eggs from the coop without using an incubator any suggestions?
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Pick a breed that goes ...
Silkie Bantam With White Crust
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Silkie Bantam With White Crust: I have three bantams. Two are fine and show no signs of any ailment, but one has a really bad white like crust ...
Keeping Water For Chickens From Freezing?
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Keeping Water For Chickens From Freezing?: I was hoping you might have some ideas on keeping water for my chickens from freezing. I live ...
When are chickens active?
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I was wondering at what part of the day Chickens are most active, when do they sleep and what time do they get up. Because of school I would ...
