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    Albendazole on sale

    Thanks, I've been looking for that!
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    Appropriate Hospital Set Up?

    I use a large wire dog crate in my covered run. You can secure 1/2" hardware cloth all around it with metal zip ties if you want to protect from predators, and can wrap the top and some of the sides with old feed bags / house wrap or 6mil plastic or something to provide a water barrier if...
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    Pullet laid 2 eggs then nothing. It's been 5 weeks since.

    She just may be a periodic layer impacted by winter. If it's winter where you are, a lot of birds are taking a break since there is less than 10 hrs of daylight. When you get that or more in the spring, laying should start again. Give her until about June, she should lay in March/Feb I should...
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    Not blue marans, so what could they be?

    You're right, they're on the charcoal side of gray. Maybe folks familiar with Ideal's offerings will have more ideas. I still think it could just be bad breeding/off standard characteristics. Hopefully not. The tail feathers are often the last to come in.
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    Not blue marans, so what could they be?

    Where did you get them from?
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    Not blue marans, so what could they be?

    They could have wry tail. It makes them look kind of rumpless. I had an ISA Brown once with wry tail - see my profile pic to the left. She eventually grew in 5, exactly 5, tail feathers in random spots. She looked kinda weird with a rounded rear end and 5 random feathers poking out from...
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    Anyone else find Sasso meat to be tough and stringy?

    Have you checked that they are fully past rigor before freezing and/or cooking? I fridge age them in large metal bowls under plastic wrap and then wiggle a joint to be sure it moves freely prior to freezing because I eat as soon as it's thawed. If you plan to rest in the fridge for a week or...
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    how do I treat a cracked beak

    Mine lost half of the whole top of her beak - the hard part came off and disappeared. Still don't know how she did it. The under part was soft and tender, but she still ate food with it from dog bowls, and got water out of our horizontal nipple waterers with it. I think she used the bottom...
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    Born mid August, Easter Egger, Hen or Roo?

    At 14 wks old, that's definitely a hen. What a sweet girl!
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    *GRAPHIC* Necropsy of 16wk old cockerel - Need help with interpereting photos

    That bird doesn't look good. Seriously enlarged liver, etc. Definitely up the protein for the rest of them. It might help them fight whatever's going on. What did you try to get him to eat? Did you try moistened feed to get him to eat? Molasses water (e.g. Nutridrench)? he just may have...
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    Does your run/coop smell very bad during winter?

    If everything is super dry, I don't know where the smell could be coming from except from their poop. Could some of the lower levels of the sand be holding water? If there's no moisture, then it may just be an unpleasant smell, rather than a pending/present mold issue, which is really what you...
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    Does your run/coop smell very bad during winter?

    I think it's sold as Sweet PDZ or similar. Horse stall odor refresher/eliminator. $11-13 / 25 lbs in my area
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    BYC Cookbook

    Ah, I'm in Alabama. Slightly warmer, but not by too much. I use a headlamp, love that thing, never run out of light that way. I've processed in the dark quite a bit, it's generally quite peaceful. My processing setup is a foldable plastic table and two plastic foldable chairs, 3 sharp...
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    Does your run/coop smell very bad during winter?

    Since you have sand, consider using a poop tray with Zeolite to catch the poops. Then you scoop it like kitty litter. There's whole threads and articles about this on here if you want to try it. The Zeolite sucks out the moisture and reduces/eliminates the smell. If you are having a bad...
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    BYC Cookbook

    Lots of us have done that. And I think you mean dispatching instead of culling - most folks use culling to mean either eating or rehoming, but basically they're not part of your flock any more, but not necessarily dead. Dispatching means you sent their spirits to God, and processing is the...
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