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Stephine, Only read through the first page of the responses to your question, so I may be repeating someone, but let me tell you what I did with a rooster who had an issue with who really is in charge of the flock. Our oldest rooster (out of four), had an issue with only me. My wife can pick...

Thanks. I'll try dropping the scratch. Just trying to us it up anyhow as it is. Will look into the probiotics. Will see if TSC carries it. The liquid state of today's drop really did concern me, but have noticed that a few of the hens are a little loose in the stool. Everyone seems to be...

My Buff Orpington hen has a nasty foul smelling diarrhea lately. Today I got a hold of her and cleaned old feces that was crusted around her vent, and also some new fresh stuff. Two days ago when I went into the coop where she is sitting on 13 eggs, she had just gotten off them and dropped a...

Thanks for the answers. Unfortunately, this hen decided that she'd had enough of the nest and hasn't been back on it since the snake incident. She was broody all during our last hatching episode through part of the early raising of those chicks, and I was hoping that we'd get another batch out...

Thanks for the answer. My wife found some information here on BYC after I had posted regarding using the water method. We tried it, found one egg that sunk straight to the bottom, and it looks like the others are viable. I washed out the incubator and parts with a "green" cleaner and "Fresh...

Sorry, left this bit out. The eggs are about 2 1/2 weeks old today. Don

Good morning. Quick question regarding growing embryo's. We have about nine eggs in an incubator due to a snake issue lately. They all have a very dense shell that is very difficult to candle through. The last couple of days the incubator has developed a real stink and I think I have a rotten...

Good morning all. We had a snake get into our hen box the other day and ate about four of the 13 eggs I had under a hen. I pulled all the eggs, washed the poop off them (scared the crap out of her apparently), and then set up the incubator. What I am wondering is whether or not I can slide...

Greetings to you all from South Carolina. I have a question today about isolating birds. We have a friend that we gave a couple of our hens to last year and she has said she'd be willing to take another one or two out of our flock of 22. For the last couple of years our flock has been a...

Georgia Dawg hmmmm? Gamecock fan here outside Columbia. Thanks for the reply. I guess I'll keep her locked up while I apply the iodine or polish. I don't need this moving turning into wet pox and moving around the flock. They are too old for the vaccination regimen. Regards, Don

I have an Buff Orpington hen with what I believe to be dry fowl pox, after looking at numbers of pictures online. I currently have her quarantined in a cage in the hen house which is covered with 1/4" wire so that any of the other birds cannot get to her. Is this enough of a quarantine, do I...

I have an Buff Orpington hen with what I believe to be dry fowl pox, after looking at numbers of pictures online. I currently have her quarantined in a cage in the hen house which is covered with 1/4" wire so that any of the other birds cannot get to her. Is this enough of a quarantine, do I...