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Hi All, We live in a rural neighborhood and want to get a couple ducks. We are trying to learn a little about them for now. We used to have chickens in a different location, but they were NOISY when they were laying and I was fearful everyday that someone would complain about them. I am...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/463482/orpington-has-infectious-bronchitis Found this, have my answer :) Thanks all. However, I will ask, how would you go about disinfection if your birds are free range? What would you use? What would you clean?

Alrighty...I have made a lot of mistakes with this chicken thing. Live and learn right? I seem to learn best by trial and error. Anyway, I have a hen with bubbly swollen eye and bubbles on the other eye, no swelling yet. My initial searches led me to believe that some disinfectant ointment and...

Thanks for the links.

Hi All, We are in need of your advice and help. We have a black austrolorp and she has not been doing well. She has laid us one egg about a month and a half ago and it was a double yolker. Since then she (we assume it is her) has laid off of the roost several times and once or twice just on...

i have no idea, I just found the post on BYC and it has about 100 comments from people that tried it with success. I'll let ya'll know. She eats it like it is candy. No improvement today...she has had three doses...two days left until it is all gone. Hope it works. She is also eating yogurt. She...

I didn't know about it until this morning. It is a yeast infection in the crop. Usually caused by a piece of food that got stuck and then 'rotted' essentially. There are several threads here, one where a guy used monistat to treat it in his chickens. It sounds like many chickens die if left...

I have a perimeter fence for my dogs with a remote shock button. It sounds cruel, but so is murdering a chicken. My older dog has never bothered the birds much, but we have a puppy that is slowly learning not to chase them. I think an airsoft gun would be perfect, they probably won't even feel...

I read back through quite a few, but missed some posts. I went out to trim the wings of my birds, they are free range, but we can't have them hopping into neighbor's yards, lol. Anyway, I posted my double yolker from my Austrolorp back when mine finally laid first week of this month. It was...

Thank you so much. I searched it. Decided to puke my chicken and feed her homemade plain yogurt. She isn't acting sick, though I suspect she has had sour crop for a few weeks now. All I had to do to puke her was turn her upside down, no massaging necessary, it was so gross..

Hi All, I have 3 hens. 2 started laying a month ago, the other laid one double yolker, one time and has not laid since. We have noticed for some time that the hen that hasn't been laying has an unusually large breast. Well, today I actually felt it and it is just full of liquid. It is huge, my...

Thanks! I composted mine...then stepped in it while raking the pile. That was odd. Good to know it happens. I hope we don't have too many more double yolk eggs, I don't think my hen will ever lay again if she has to push one of those puppies out.

Hi All, I think I have read around here that this happens...but wanted to know why. My hens just started laying, I think this one came from my black. She has laid one egg and it was a huge double yolker, she hasn't laid since and the other two laid yesterday, so I am guessing this was her...

Ya, I think my mom is pretty tired of my egg texts :)

We are going to need more chickens to keep up with our egg demand. We eat about 6 a day. Two a day for me and my husband and one each for the kids. My husband and I are celebrating our 5 year anniversary this month too! We got our first green egg today, the EE decided to lay one. I think the...