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Can having lice really kill them?

My chickens may have eaten lawn fertilizer!! I let them out yesterday, not knowing that our lawn had just been fertilized. When I went out later, I realized but they had already been out most of the afternoon. I think they spent most of their time in the trees and field grass, not the lawn...

Thanks for re-creating this thread! I never posted on the old one, but was looking for it the other day and couldn't find it. I am expecting #2 Jan 28. #1 (14 months) was also an clomid/IUI baby, Livinzoo, so we were pleasantly surprised when this one happened the old fasioned way.

I have yet to get a green/blue egg out of my EEs. I have 3 EEs out of a flock of 14, and I'm still holding out hope that one or two of them may just be the last to start laying and maybe I'll still get one?? Otherwise, I think at least one of them is laying cream-colored eggs. I think I'll be...

Are they maybe from your 5 month olds and they are just starting to lay? My new layers are giving me soft shells occasionally.

I've had soft-shell eggs too here and there, but I'm thinking it's just each hen getting started one at a time. Because I'm also getting some nice hard shells too. I've got oyster shell out for them. I'm sure you'll start getting some good eggs soon, but it sure is a pain to deal with those...

My coop has a dirt floor, covered with a few inches of sand and 4-6 inches of shavings. It seems to be working quite well. I haven't had to change the shavings yet (2 months), just add more occasionally. The chickens stir it up and it stays nice and dry in there. The poop dries up and it...

Sweet! Thanks, I hope you are right... not that I would mind one rooster in my flock, but my husband says he doesn't want one.

Is my BO a rooster? This one seems to stand a little taller and has a larger and pinker comb than the other 2. What about my SLW? This is my only SLW, so I don't have anything to compare it to. All are just around 2 months old

So I've tried pretty much everything, warm rag for 5 minutes multiple times a day, I even brought it in and gave it a bath last night (and blow dried it afterwards). I tried giving it yogurt with oatmeal mixed in and it wouldn't eat it. I've given it lots of drinks of water, and tried putting...

Hi, one of my 4 week old buff orpington chicks is having a behind problem. About a week ago, it was pasted up, and was raw and red and missing feathers there. I saw it peck at its behind to try to get the poop off. I cleaned it up really well and have been keeping it really clean all week...

I have 4 buff orpingtons and 4 gold sex-links in my new flock of 15. Now that they are getting some feathers, I can tell them apart, but I don't know which is which...I'm new. gold on the left, buff on the right? buff? gold? everybody (couldn't resist) They're supposed to be all gals...

Hi, I'm pretty new at this, I have 15 2-week-old chicks...I've been reading a lot of threads about sand floors and some people have put dropping boards under their roosts. What do you mean by that? Is it just a board(plywood?) under the roosts that you scrape off? How often? Thanks!

I can totally relate! I've had my chicks for 2 weeks now, and have somehow resisted the urge to get more. I drive by the feed store almost everyday and have to force myself from pulling in. I don't think I can "just look." I'm going to have to get more shavings this weekend...we'll see how...