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    Sick mother hen not eating or drinking :(

    If I have to resort to that, how do I brood them?
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    Sick mother hen not eating or drinking :(

    I only noticed today that she was significantly pale and I tried to feed her and she wouldn't eat, nor would she drink when I offered water. The babies have already hatched, they are about three days old and she still hasn't gotten off the nest, they've all hatched and there are no more eggs...
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    Sick mother hen not eating or drinking :(

    BYC is down, so I came to this. My chicken recently hatched out 10 babies and they were all good and fine yesterday, but today I checked on them and the mother has a dull pink comb and wattle and won't eat or drink! I did a bit of research and she might have mites so I put some chicken flea...
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    Lame Chicken

    this has happened to a number of my chickens, and by the sounds of it, it is the exact same thing! one of my rooster all of a sudden found it hard to walk and started to walk on his elbow. We had to put him down as he never got better but only got worse until he just lay there and wouldn't move...
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