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Excellent. Thank you!

I ordered eggs on the internet and they were shipped on the 13th and I received them today. Do you think they are still good to put into the incubator or has too much time passed?

Quote: 2 and 3 years old. Brown and runny. I called another vet today and he told me to worm them and treat them for a bacterial infection. I bought Wazine 17 and Sulmet - sulfamethazine sodium 12.5%. I'm wondering which one I should use first? any ideas?

No, it's diarrhea. I called my vet last week and they know nothing about chickens.

I have 15 hens, my oldest hen stared out with diarrhea and three more have it now. They are loosing feathers on their bums, although my oldest one seems to be over it and her feathers are starting to grow back now. There are NO signs of: blood in poop worms in poop lack of appetite lethargy...

I have owned hens for almost three years now (they don't free range) and have never wormed them. I've never seen - nor have I looked for - worms in the poop. I have DE in the coop shavings and give them ACV every now and then. Do I need to be giving them something else and more often? I sell...

Thanks for the suggestions! Looks like I'll be buying landscape timbers!

Colorado, yes I've had to shovel more dirt also, but it takes a LOT of dirt to back-fill the entire run. Frog, concrete might just work for me.

I'm having a problem with my run washing and my chickens digging out. Any advice on how I can prevent this would be appreciated. Joan

We've had so much rain here! OMG what a mess! Just about all of my girls have the pox. So there is nothing I can do about it? The mosquitoes were absolutely HORRIBLE this summer. Is this harmful to humans?

Quote: Not my two bullies, these witches are out for blood. These same two still bully my EE's but they've learned to dodge them.

Still not finished. . .

I don't give a rats a** if he served a life sentence and was raped everyday of his miserably life in the pen - it still wouldn't be justice served IMHO.

cmom, that's a good idea. I'm going to put the two bullies by themselves and put the young girls in the big run and I'm definitely going to keep the hose handy. Thanks!

I've separated my four young girls from my older hens. They are in the same run but separated by a fence. They've been separated for a week. My young sweet speckled sussex got into the older girls run and my usually sweet buff orp and australorp almost killed her. I'm so ticked at the older...