The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

Anyone know why I'd be getting a poopy egg? It's only this hen. I could understand the occasional poopy egg in the old set up as it was small and semi muddy but this one they've only been in a week and the nestboxes are perfectly clean. No other hen has this issue. Yet hers are not only a little poop but covered in it fairly consistently.

But the other weird thing is a bunch of them have poopy butts but yet no other eggs are dirty since being in the new coop.

I noticed maybe a few months ago some had white on their butts, like dried poop, and I eventually looked closer and discovered most of them had a lot more poop, like actual poop, stuck closer but not clogging the vent. I tried to wipe it off one but it was so much and dried on. They seem to have gotten a little better being able to actually dust bathe all day every day but I do still plan on giving them each an epsom salt bath and maybe a dose of oil or ACV or something. Forget the exact treatment plan I read, have it bookmarked.

ANYWAY.

I feel like awful chicken parent for leaving them like that but I have been so busy with school and taking 4 classes that I haven't had the time to give them all a bath. And since it was not totally blocking the vent, the eggs are clean, and none are acting sick, I figured it can wait.

But now I am done after this week and should be able to give them the bath maybe this weekend.

But that is the other weird thing, they are all acting 100% normal. So it's VERY weird.

Although I'm only getting 4 eggs a day atm, not sure if that's normal? Out of 7.

I was thinking of worming them but don't want to do so unnecessarily or have to deal with the egg withdrawal period and throw good eggs away. But I will if necessary.

But it's just so frustrating because, like I said, they are all acting healthy and mostluy laying so it makes it very hard to diagnose and treat!

I just want my girls to be happy and healthy and this is upsetting me. They have never in two and a half years been sick except maybe for leg mites which I treated and am going to treat again just to be sure. But they're never sick.

And now all of a sudden they get poopy bums and poopy eggs but yet act healthy..... a real mystery.

Please help. :(

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I know it's not necessary but what do you think would be a better base for a hoop coop? 4x4 or 2x4 type boards? Like the square post type or a board?

And also, if I made a dog pen/run, which I'm still not sure if I'm going to or just buy a chainlink kennel, make a cattle panel kennel, or just fence the backyard, do you think a regular 2x4 or maybe 2x6 or 2x12 board but basically not the square posts, would hold a large dog in or should I go heavier? Like could he move or knock over the run??

He's like 150 pounds but should be around 130 and actually I think he's lost a lot of weight lately. :(

But he's also extremely lazy plus getting older and kind of sickly so I highly doubt he'd challenge a fence. But I do worry when he sees something and goes ballistic.

Also, speaking of the dog, he is looking worse and worse :(

Losing more fur and got these weird rolls. He needs to go back to the vet or we need to find a new vet who knows more and/or can do tests.

He just looks sooooo ugly :hit

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Anyone here ever read any of these books?

The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (a Sherlock Holmes story)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (a Hercule Poirot story)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Phillip Marlowe is the detective)

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (detective: Kinsey Millhone)

In The Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty (detective Sean Duffy)
Yup. Only read the sue Grafton one. Not the best written. I read that series as a "light" read after reading something with a lot more weight.
 

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