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she is a lavender americauna, she is eating well and laying, she is slow to come out of the coop etc, and she always misses the grapes. Yesterday I noted cloudiness in both eyes, They don't seem to bother her, she doesn't seem to be in pain, I don't think I can afford cataract surgery. what can...

I think it's worming time again. But I have never seen a worm, everyone's weight is good, we had months of drought when I'm pretty sure no worms were around, dogs didn't even have fleas. I wormed them last June I believe I don't know that it is, but one of my young Barnevelder hens, just about...

I mean really pale. I put some rooster booster in water and made sure she drank some yesterday. It is way hot here about 100 most days and she is a heavier bodied bird. Today I wormed her. I also took her picture. I think this has been getting paler for 3 days and I do think she is dehydrated...

I work a lot in spring. A lot. I moved my older birds all to the lot and got some point of lay pullets in late January. Added extra roosts, the run is half a lot, privacy fenced, although I can close the smaller run I usually don't. I closed it for a few days to make sure how many hens were...

I was given a pair of red sex link hens in January 2018 when their owner moved, supposedly about 1.5 years old (Buff Orpington and RIR cross as I understand it). I lost one last summer, she just kind of went off her feed, I moved her to the lot with the old birds in a dog crate and got her...

This is not my first go round, I think I had a different hen doing it last year. This one got so bald I put her in a big dog crate in the old birds pen, where no one can peck her, and I'll be darned if she didn't clear her back of new feather growth this morning. Hopefully at least her head...

My hen moved from the 19 day old eggs this morning to freshly laid eggs and I didn't go out until afternoon. The eggs were cool to the touch. I have moved them to an incubator in hopes I'm not too late, trying to figure out whether to leave it dry or raise humidity, no fan , thermostat...

I didn't notice she was acting odd until yesterday, my 3.5 year old black australorp. I picked her up to get her away from a big fire ant hill and noticed her weight. She is eating well, some waste is coming out, so today I checked for egg blockage. Nothing in that chute (used thin nitrile...

Are the temperature and humidity requirements compatible? Seemed to me chickens hatched at about 21 days. HW seem to require 25 days. Have a plastic coleman cooler incubator, working on the thermostat arrangement now. (cooked some eggs in the old styrofoam bator last december, not taking...

My feed store hens have always been healthy, I bought chicks there. My old bird flock is (but may not stay that way) as they went and nosed around the paralyzed or semi-paralyzed rooster I had in a dog crate in the shed. He has some use of his legs and had kicked some food out. I found him...

I built my own incubator. I did not get on here first - big mistake. Am almost 2 weeks in and my temps have been at 99 (not forced air) and humidity about 65%. Am bringing the temp up a bit and trying to lower humidity. Going to get an x on each egg on my next turn here shortly. So glad I...

My 2.5 year old hens are aging, one apparently healthy production red dropped dead last week, a little shy about coming out of run to free range one day, dead the next. All my PR's have quit laying, not really moulting but I suspect they are winding down. Now the still - laying Americauna's the...

First of the baby chicks under the broodies hatched last Saturday afternoon. The broodies have been sitting the remaining eggs at night, but not much in the daytime, so I pulled them this morning figuring they were either not fertile or dead in some way. ok now I'm in trouble, the 6 eggs are...

PennPlax, provider of plastic aquarium stuff and bird cages, is announcing large bird cages and chicken coops. When I see one I suppose I could post it, if anyone is interested. I'm posting this because if PennPlax is making coops, Chicken-keeping is beating out Fish-keeping as a hobby, and I...

I was given 3 fairly tame roos, and they are not human aggressive, but my smallest americauna hen has deep gouges, through the skin on her back. She hid from them so thoroughly today I thought a hawk carried her off, tonight I went out to check the coop and take food and saw the claw marks on...

I got my first BA's in May 2012, a critter got most of them, and I had 3 going into last winter, they did well. Except a flash freeze came in Christmas night when I wasn't home to close the north front door on the coop, and I lost a hen to the sudden cold. It is colder here today than it was...

before I merge my flocks. I have to do something. I prepared my coop carefully, never got the outside of the walls painted, but the interior is bright white with minimal places a mite can hide. The perches can be removed and oiled, the floor is rubber pondliner over the painted plywood...

Organic Consumers Association has a link to a petition to write your Texas state senator. Not linked to any health risks, and the large poultry operations are exempt. They are after small farmers and backyard chicken keepers...

I got the best sweet potato sets from this Mom & Pop this spring. So I am going to order from them again, and I get on their website and discover they do sell day old chicks. Has anyone ordered from them? Gypsi

I thought I had troubles with my first group of pullets. My mini dachshund got 3, and a feral cat got 1. So I designed a greenhouse with a chick raising pen in it, secured from predators, and that worked out last winter. But when my Black australorp chicks came in mid-may, it was hot in the...