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will do. thanks very much. (I have been scooping her poop daily since she has been sitting in the bedding while unable to jump to a roost. I have seen no evidence of anything odd but I will make sure I look up what a tapeworm looks like so know what I'm looking for. appreciate the help.

It isn't a tapeworm is it? Not sure if I should try to pull it out. I went to take a photo and it was gone. Couldn't find it in the bedding. I'm guessing it was the membrane of a shell-less egg? She's fine, no sign of distress. She is definitely eating well-layer feed plus a few BOSS...

We have a blue speckled marans recovering from a fox attack 2 weeks ago. Astoundingly, I interrupted it just in time, the fox fled, and she had no injuries we could see; just missing feathers; but she couldn't walk at first and her wing was hanging oddly low- vet said nothing broken or...

we have that issue too. We have 3 generations with 11 total. 5 have just started laying, 3 are middle aged and laying a bit less and 3 who are dowagers and haven't laid in ages I don't think (1 is 8 yrs. old.) We have 3 nest boxes but 1 lays in the coop pretty regularly. And I just found a...

I actually tried that. We got 5 chicks the first time she was broody and had been for a couple of weeks. We put 2 of them under her at night and she went after them immediately and tried pecking them hard and they would have been hurt so we put them back in the brooder. It might have been...

One of our hens has been in and out of broodiness for a month or so. She is a blue easter egger, about 3 and a good layer. We keep lifting her out of the nest box and carrying her away from it before putting her down. She gets water and eats and hangs out with the others briefly but goes back...

huh, I was looking for a thread on chicks pecking and found this-our 2 1/2 week old chicks definitely draw blood. We have 5 and one is quite a lot smaller than the other 4 and they have been pecking her like crazy. They also drew blood pecking me! One saw a freckle on my arm and pecked it and...

nope. she wouldn't have it. And, in fact, the day after we tried a second time she suddenly decided being broody wasn't her thing anymore. So, maybe we can try again next time we get chicks (except we can't predict that timing of a broody just when chicks come.) I wish we could have made it...

oh yeah, forgot to mention that we did take one egg (golf ball) away as we put the single chick in. And they are in the brooder now so we can easily raise them the way we've done before if Pearl still says NO!

ok, we'll try that. We can't go into our coop-we have to reach down into the nest box from above, which, of course, chickens don't like. Above means danger. And she gets annoyed immediately and puffs up. But we can do it late tonight and prepare to get comfy nearby.

she's been broody for over 2 weeks. We weren't sure about doing it at night in case something happened but I guess, given how quickly she went for the little one, you find out fast if it will work. And 5 days may tip her off that something is wrong... We'll be out tonight but maybe we will try...

we're trying to intro chicks to a broody and we took the first one to the nest box and tucked it under her and...NOPE. Not having it. She tried to peck, hard, at the little one. So, we took it out but are wondering if we should try again with another one. We read we should intro one at a...

I’m about to try this too. Our hen has been broody for just about 2 weeks and our chicks came the day before yesterday but we weren’t sure about how the other 6 hens would treat the new ones. We have a smaller henhouse next to the main one that we could move the new family to to keep them...

how would one know if they empty their crops at night? I’m asking because while some of our girls get mildly poopy butts sometimes, one has a bad case and I noticed today that it seemed extreme and I got a little worried. She was alone a few times today as well and our tiny flock of 7...

thanks! It was a dumb thing to do since I didnt know about spurge. We have suddenly been overrun with it and I was sort of teasing the girls - “c’mon, you guys, help me out here.” I was surprised when one pecked a leaf and ate it and the, of course, everyone else was interested. Because they...