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    Magpies stealing and breaking eggs

    Hi thanks so much:) will try these. Thinking of a big scarecrow with HUGE eyes ;) will update here if we get a result :)
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    Magpies stealing and breaking eggs

    Hi I live in Cyprus, have had chickens for 6 years and magpies are everywhere here (otherwise known to my husband as shite hawks!). Have never had this problem before but last 2 weeks 2-3 eggs per day (we only get 6 max we have a small flock) have been broken. Suspected a chicken and isolated a...
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    Laying an egg without a shell?

    Yes that's the challenge rooting out the non layers! Have identified one and she's tagged round the leg. Have separated the pullets in the day time as they are on a vitamin rich 6-12 weeks feed. In 2 weeks time we'll mix them with the others then isolate the oldies one by one till they produce...
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    Laying an egg without a shell?

    I have one hen laying rubbery skinned almost transparent eggs. She's coming back into lay after 8-9 weeks. Have had 2 over a week in the coop which were squashed and broken and yesterday evening, she laid what looked like a used condom with a tail on the end! That one we took out and it's not...
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    Pasty butt in a year old chicken

    Our sick chick died 3 weeks ago. Her butt was starting to look clean again after bathing for 5.5 weeks every day! But she still had runny poop, mostly yellow. The day she died, she looked sad and hunched up for the first time, didn't want any food and by the evening, had her head in the water...
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    Pasty butt in a year old chicken

    Update. Almost 3 weeks later and no real improvement. She's isolated from the other chickens. We've been bathing her daily, giving yoghurt in feed, spraying iodine on vent after bathing and adding vitamins and probiotics to her feed too. Took to vet 5 days ago and he prescribed antibiotics...
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    Pasty butt in a year old chicken

    Thank you SO much and from a quick reading round - had never heard of gleet or ACV (now I know it's apple cider vinegar and no I hadn't been using it though I had read it can help with worms) I think you're spot on. Don't have any of the remedies you suggested, so I'm off to get some after her...
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    Pasty butt in a year old chicken

    Ok here are some fairly gross pictures. Taken after bathing a second time. Held her in warm water and gently pulled some of the crusty bits off, but she's pooping foul smelling runny poo now. Her vent is red and there's a large crusty piece which won't budge (black section to the right)...
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    Pasty butt in a year old chicken

    Hi I'm new to to the term "pasty butt" ! but think one of our year old chickens may have it. Saw she had diarrhoea today with a dirty butt and on closer inspection, saw she had what looked like a blocked vent full of dried poo. We washed the area with warm water and have freed the vent up but...
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    Proud chicken owner from Cyprus

    Thanks for the info on which type of chicken we have. Ha ha the "hatchery" they came from was a bunch of different chicken owners in a local village. A phone call in the morning from the guy who runs the feed mill there resulted in 10 appearing in two boxes later in the day. Most of the friends...
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    Proud chicken owner from Cyprus

    Hi I know most of you live in the States so just to let you know Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean. Just got our first 10 chickens from local farmer/feed centre locally. Many Cypriots keep chickens and we have plenty of land, so we thought we'd add to our animals (2 doags...
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