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hi, Find someone with a kiln and put him in a saggar. A saggar is a container like a clay jar, or even fire brick made into a box so the ashes won't fly around onto the ware. that would work. make sure the kiln is going to cone 10. the person with the kiln will know what that means...

When your hens started to molt, did they exhibit any different behavior? I can't tell if my hen is going broody or starting to molt or sick. The thing that is different with her is that she sleeps in the nesting box and spends more time in there during the day without laying anything. Other...

Did you also find her poop to be runny? Is there mucus in each poop? I had an egg bound hen and after the warm bath/ massage she expelled a weird mass and was fine. I'm wondering if you can try that for this instance or if that would harm her? To others out there, Are egg bound chickens...

It's hard to tell since she has never laid before. If she's acting normal otherwise, maybe she's just feeling it and it will happen and there's really nothing wrong? My chickens vents are always pulsating like that and I never thought it was necessarily a bad thing. Is there a lump that you...

what are the symptoms of coccidious? One of my birds is isolating, standing still, has some diaherrea, not roosting with others-sleeping in nesting box. Looks very sad, acts uncharacteristically passive. she is laying and drinking water. I want to catch it before it becomes serious. This is...

I thought this forum was about chickens...

my chicken is separating herself. her feathers are ruffled like she's cold, she's not roosting, practically falling asleep. I just found that she has layed today, but now she's dumping a clear liquid and just standing there. very lathargic, trance like state! I don't know what to do...

thanks for that link. So basically the only way to know if there's a shell stuck inside her is if she starts bleeding, correct?

what happened with that?

thanks for your help. that website is preetty amazing. We brought her up and kept her on our lap with a towel and hot water bottle until she fell asleep. When we unwrapped the towel to put her to bed downstairs, we noticed she had squeezed out a soft broken egg. It looked like a fetus or...

we brought her in and gave her a bath as she had leaky butt and diarreah. When I picked her up it was like squeezing a condiment bottle. She had no noticable lumps. Her vent looks normal other than the leakage. No noticable marks on face, eyes or neck. This is scary because there seem to be...

My favorite hen has been hiding in the nesting box for the past 4 hours. At first I thought she was trying to lay, but we already got one from her today. She usually squeals when we open the box on her, but she just looks sad. I picked her up and she has a leaky vent, a white discharge...

yes, with the bully of the group. At first I thought it was the rooster, but today its raining and I got a better look at the area and I saw her do it. I didn't notice any mites, but I couldn't really catch her to pick her up. I feel as if dusting them might be a good precautionary thing to...

I have the same problem, in fact I submitted a question a while ago about it. I tried putting bag balm and vicks on them to curb it, but they HATE it and scratch it endlessly which could make it all worse. They have plenty of room, protein, calcium, hanging treats, scratch, ETC! I think I...

What do you dust them with?

mine do it too. After I fought my rooster off of me the other day he went and hid in the nesting box they all fight over (there are 3 for 4 ckns). I don't know how long he stayed in there. The next morning all the eggs were in the box on the opposite end-for the first time. this morning it...

I got a hold of her and rubbed some bag balm on her head. She kind of freaked out and tried to scratch it off. We'll see in the morning. I was just reading robert plamondon's site and now that I think of it, this only started when they were inside so much. He is an advocate of the open air...

hey guys, With the birds being cooped up more due to the weather, I've noticed one being pecked almost bald, not bleeding but I can see it going there. I've heard of a mustard paste being put on eggs that were being eaten. Would this work on a bird's head? Should I hang things in the...

thank you. We've since insulated the outside of the coop with hay bales and 1" foam insulating board and sealed it up so they don't eat it. It seems like they have been laying more consistantly since then, too. I just bought a seedling warming mat that I was going to put the waterer on. It...

We just had our first BIG snow. I'm only 6 months into being a chicken person, and one hen and the rooster have a bit of black on their combs. We slathered them with vaseline...how often must that be done as a preventative? What is "dubbing"? Will a seedling warmer mat keep a one gallon...