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One of my hens has sour crop. I've had her isolated for about 5 days now. She has the typical "nasty chicken butt" so I've bathed her a couple of times. I've been feeding her a little yogurt (which she isn't eating anymore) and I put 2 tablespoons of ACV in a gallon of her water. She is just...

It worked!! I had to apply the pressure dressing for 2 nights and she is on about 9 - 10 hours of daylight, but she finally stopped laying and the prolapse is healed! I'm going to keep her from laying for about a week to make sure everything is healed. I've heard that it will probably recur...

I have an almost year old hen who prolapsed 4 days ago. I've been bathing her rear end at least once a day and applying either Preparation H or honey twice a day. Unfortunately she's still laying, so the prolapse isn't getting better. I've isolated her from the other hens so that I can limit...

I need some input/advice. I have a 2 year old barred rock hen and 3 other assorted rock pullets that are 7 months old. The 2 year old hen is molting so she isn't laying right now. The pullets are all laying very nicely. So recently the hen started picking on one of the pullets. She wasn't...

So, my niece has a one year old hen that has blood coming out of her rear end and is listless and hunched up. I can't personally look at the the hen and see if it's bloody diarrhea or actual blood because I live 300 miles away from her. Any suggestions? I thought maybe coccidiosis, but we...

Thank you for all your help. She is in the "chicken hospital" in a large dog crate and seems to be doing well. Yesterday morning she was huddled in a corner, but by evening was alert and eating a little scratch and drinking. As long as no infection develops, she should make it. Not sure...

Yesterday one of my hens was attacked by a dog. She has several puncture wounds on her rear end and a long gash on one of her breasts. The breast wound was just the skin, so we sewed it up with thread and sprayed all the wounds with Blue-Kote. The only antibiotic I have is amoxicillin in 250...

I have a 2 year old barred rock hen who lays thin shelled eggs. Almost every day her egg is either cracked or broken (usually just cracked). She has calcium (oyster shell and recycled egg shells) available 24/7. In spite of having the appropriate feed when she was growing, I think she must...

OMG!! I SO do that, too!!

you request approval from your condo association to keep chickens on your patio!

Thanks to various threads here I finally stopped my broody hen from being broody! I tried putting her in a dog crate, first with some pine shavings with no success, then with a wire bottom with no success. Then I found a thread where someone said their grandfather used to dunk a broody hen...

Hhhhmmmm....I have a broody hen in "chicken jail" (a dog crate) that I'm trying to break of her broodiness. I might have to try the misting and see if that works.

Yes, I do have Blue-Kote. I'll try that. I'm hoping it will heal if I can keep it from getting infected.

I just got 50 chicks on Monday and I was wiping poo from pasty butt off one of the chicks and accidently tore the skin! It's not bleeding and the other chicks don't seem to be pecking at it. Will it heal or do I need to separate it from the others and treat it? How do I treat it? Thanks for...

Yes, she has been laying almost every day for about a month. Other than not being able to walk, she is acting fine. Still laying, no diarrhea, not lethargic.

I have a 7 month old Barred Rock pullet who may have cage fatigue (my pullets are confined in the winter). I see no signs of injury (no wounds or obvious swelling), but she can barely support her weight on her right leg and spends most of her time laying down. I have separated her from the...

I've raised Cornish Xs for meat birds, but I'd like to try something different. Has anyone raised Dark Cornishes as meat birds? How long do they take to get to 6 to 8 pounds? Any other breeds that make good, fairly fast growing meat birds? I'm willing to raise all males since they grow...

I've gotten 2 batches of chicks from Ideal Poultry. The first batch of 25 chicks was supposed to be black broilers. Their catalog says the red broilers were supposed to weigh 6 pounds at 7 weeks. Mine barely weighed 4 pounds at 10 weeks. I finally figured out they sent me black stars by...

The Pedi-Paws worked! I had to clip a couple of loose pieces off their beaks, but the filing did the trick - no more cracked beaks.

I suddenly realized yesterday that I have a Pedi-Paws for filing my dog's nails. 2 of the pullets have cracked beaks now, so I'm going to try filing their beaks today. I'll keep you posted.