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I have older (five years) hens who are fed Flock Layer with free oyster shells but still lay soft shell eggs. I also have three year old hens who do fine. I got some dolomite powder in the calcium section of the health food store and thought about mixing some in their food. The dolomite has...

About 10 days ago we here in western CO went from a temperature of 34 degrees at night to -4 inside of 24 hours. My Buff Orp had just started moulting. This morning she's huddled in the corner absolutely wretched, and still not feathered. So, I brought her inside in a large cage. After she...

I know that a cedar chicken house is not good, but what about aged cedar for roosts? I bought some cedar 2 x 4s for a project that didn't happen a month ago so they've been sitting outside, airing out, so to speak. It was time for new roosts so this is what I used, but it could be undone if...

I have a 13 week old mutt, EE, from Whiting's in Colorado that I'm not getting a definite feel for. Comb is small and yellow and it doesn't act roosterish. However, it's got somewhat pointed neck feathers but round saddle feathers and one lone curved tail feather. Mary

Hello All, Has anyone found a method to keep a rooster inside city limits where you aren't supposed to? I have four new chicks to add to my old girls who are dying off and I'm pretty sure that one is a cockerel. They're eight weeks old and I just put them outside and the girls just follow him...

Hello everyone. One of my favorite girls is a bit off today. Breed: Black Australorpe (Hatchery, unfortunately) Age: 3 Symptoms: Somewhat depressed acting for 24 hours, passed a small amount of normal colored poop with mucous and a crushed, semi-formed egg last night, a bit smaller than...

Friday I rescued a 20 month old Andalusian who was running wild with wild turkeys. She's in her own pen and my 2.5 year olds, a flock of five, spent a little time today either fighting with her, ignoring her, or yelling about it. She does have some bloody cuts on her wattles as the result of...

Hello, Today my friend and I freed her final chicken (predators/cars took the others) from a gang of wild turkeys in the mountains of Colorado. She's a Blue Andalusian about 20 months old and has been hanging with the 'Turks and sleeping in whatever outbuilding has been left open in a very...

Hello, I have a 2.5 year old NHR (hatchery) who has had very runny, at times watery stools for several weeks (about 8). ( I posted before.) Throughout all this, she still walked around with head a tail up, ate well, maintained a good weight, preened herself and continued to run the flock. But...

I know this topic has been kicked around a lot; I did do a search on it but I'm concerned about low temperatures again this year and I'm wondering about the 100 W flat panel heater that Amazon has for sale with the thermostat cube outlet. I live in Western Colorado where winter temperature are...

I have a BO hen who has been broody for 10 days. No, she can't hatch chicks - I'm maxxed out for my town's ordinances. She's being kept in a cage and let out twice a day for a bit of romping. I close off the house so she can't go sit in the nest box and she finds a shallow in the yard . . ...

Hi everyone, I went to the feed store to find something that might help my girls get through their molt. They're miserable and if they're unhappy, I'm usually unhappy along with them. I left with some electrolytes and a bag of local milled feed that's different from my usual. I've been...

Hello, I have a one and one-half year old Blue Andalusian who seems to have developed a neurological disorder where she walks a few steps forward, then sideways and backwards. She actually gets from one place to another by walking sideways. She eats well, hasn't laid in two weeks but is...

Several times over summer I've gone out in the morning, let the girls out and when I go to clean the coop there's an egg under the roost, as if they laid it in their sleep. Their litter is pine shavings and the egg doesn't break, which is good but it has on occasion been covered by poop as...

My 1 year old Andalusian laid two eggs on Monday; a regular egg and a fart egg. She has since laid two more fart eggs every day but not a regular egg. All the eggs are hard and perfectly formed but I haven't opened them to inspect contents. I know that they'll lay an occasion small egg (these...

I have a one-year old Australorpe whose egg shell color has changed over the past three days from light brown to almost white. Of note is that I went on a short vacation and between my two house sitters the girls received considerably more scratch (oats, wheat, BOSS) than normal - enough that...

So, my year old BO, Bunny, has been very cantankerous lately and mean to the other girls. She sits in one of the nest boxes, eggs underneath her or not and screeches at the others when they come near. When I open the door she puff up and gives the robo-bird warning; a high pitched, electronic...

Hello all, I'm posting here an article on natural remedies for giardia in dogs. Currently my poor little Cocker Spaniel has recurrent giardia and has been on medication, taken the shot and I'm really frustrated and she's getting sicker. However, that' s not why I'm talking chickens but it has...

Hello to all, I have come upon three instances in the past two weeks of new chicken owners misreading the directions on the back of electrolyte packages and at least one of these has resulted in the death of baby chicks. Most packets of electrolytes sold in feed stores are for a variety of...

Hello to all, I have come upon three instances in the past two weeks of new chicken owners misreading the directions on the back of electrolyte packages and at least one of these has resulted in the death of baby chicks. Most packets of electrolytes sold in feed stores are for a variety of...