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    Help I don't know whats happening

    Okay this morning she was back out in run. I put her in her own coop with layer pellets, and water with sulfadimethoxine in it I also added a little suger so maybe they will drink more of it. Our vet said to treat them all with this. So now I guess I have to throw eggs out for a while again. She...
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    Help I don't know whats happening

    There water is changed completely every 2 days plus waters disifected 2 times a week. The only one that was really weak like that is gone now. All the others acting fine. They run to me when I go in their run looking for a treat. If I put garden Sevin on them do I throw out the eggs for a...
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    Help I don't know whats happening

    BaGAWK!! : Quote: I have one with similar symptoms. How did the vet diagnose e. coli? What tests? How would they get e. coli? would it have to be something rotten they eat?
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    Help I don't know whats happening

    The first sign was late yesterday she just seemed ruffled up a little and I gave them all some ripe tomatoes and she just pecked a little., but was moving around fine with no other signs of being sick. The first two died with 2 hours of wobbling around. So to fast to try doing anything. I'am...
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    Help I don't know whats happening

    I have looked at all of them for mites and lice. I can't find any. Even in the dark when the little buggers would be more active. I just started a new bag of pellets a couple weeks ago and I can't find any moldy smell or anything with their feed. I only have 13 chickens so it takes a while to go...
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    Help I don't know whats happening

    I have 7 month old pullets, I posted a couple weeks ago about one. I lost one Oct3,Another one Oct 24.And now I have one thats bad again. This one I just found at the bottom of the ramp going in the chicken house. There has been very little sign of them being sick. Right now she moves like a...
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    Lost Another One Yesterday

    I posted yesterday about a sick chicken. I lost her. I have 13 chickens left. Lost one 3 Weeks ago too. They are 6 1/2 months old. The two that died do not have feathers on their butts. I looked a pictures of internal layers that look like they do. But the first one I looked inside and could not...
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    hen of 6 months sick help

    The one that is sick I seprated and put mothers vinigar in her water which I got her to drink a little but she hasn't moved at all. What do I use to deworm them and do I have to throw the eggs out? They are on a commercial layer pellet food. Then I give them cabbage, and stuff like that out of...
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    hen of 6 months sick help

    I lost one hen about 3 weeks ago, now today I have another one sick. Yellow runny poo, she is laying on the coop floor and when I try to make her stand up she is unbalanced. I got the shot for Markes when I bought them as babies in March. All seemed fine yesterday. They are not free ranging...
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    Galvanised versus plastic waterer?

    I use a plastic one that plugs in in the coop durning the winter along with a plastic heated dog bowl in the run durning the winter, but durning the summer I use the galvanised ones out side in the run.
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    Dont they look like they should be laying? - Video

    I have 12 BRs that were 20 weeks old today. I have 5 that are squatting but no brown eggs yet. I have 3 EEs that are 20 weeks old and 1 started laying a week ago. A pretty blue egg. First 2 in run, then 2 soft ones under roost and now the rest have been in the nests. But waiting on the BRs. But...
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    putting all together

    I have 9 - 14 month old chickens and then I have 20 - 11 week olds. They have been in seperate coops and runs with wire and a gate inside and outside. So they see each other trough the wire. I want to open the outside gate and see if they mingle together. Is it best to do this late in the...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I don't have baby pictures of this EE but I love her coloring. She lays a cream colored egg.
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    OK in the coop?

    this is my first time with chicks but I moved mine to the coop at about 3 weeks old, with their light and made sure there was no drafts that would be on them and they have been fine. now 9 weeks old. No light, roosting, and running in and out of coop even in the rain.
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    Merging young flock with old

    Iam with you all. I have 5 ee's and 4 cinnimon queens that are 1 1/2 years old in one coop and run and 20 BR's and 5 EE's that are 10 weeks old in the other coop and run. They are seperated by fencing and they have been that way for a month now. I want to try opening gates to let them mix but I...
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    Am I a rooster or pullet

    If it is a roo I have a very good friend that going to take it. I will also be giving her a few barred rocks so I have the right amount for my coop and run area.
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    Am I a rooster or pullet

    They are a little grainy as I was zoomed in. Do these help.
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    Honest, I am only going to buy one.

    I had just had my 25 babies out in the coop for about 2 weeks when we went in a runnings store and I ended up coming out with 5 white leghorns. My other babies are 9 weeks old now and these are 1 1/2 weeks old so will have to keep them seperate for another 3 or 4 weeks and then a cage in the...
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    Am I a rooster or pullet

    I am an EE but still can't tell if its a rooster or pullet? It's 9 weeks old and other than tail up and a little larger comb than other EE's the same age No signs of crowing. Help me decide.
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    Letting Chicks Outside

    Okay I am new to chickens, I have had 10 layers I bought as Pullets so they were easy. We added another 8 x 8 coop to our exsiting 8 x 8 coop so I have two or can open gate and have one big coop. Same with the outside runs. They are totally seperate now. My babies are a month old today. I just...
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