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    isolate in coop or away?

    Thank you so much. I will proceed without.
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    isolate in coop or away?

    Thank you for the articles - the first one I had read, the second one is really informative and useful, thanks. However, references in it to isolating in order to observe still don't mention if the isolated chicken should be removed from the flock. I am thinking yes, to reduce what I expect to...
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    isolate in coop or away?

    My 2.5 year old RIR Henry-Etta has had a soft crop for over a week and massaging hasn't worked (my sense of smell is really bad so I can't tell if she is sour or yeasty). Yesterday her crop was hard and I gave her half a teaspoon of coconut oil and this morning it is softer. But it also has...
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    bald red patch on chest

    I'll do both those things, thanks
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    bald red patch on chest

    My RIR has had this bald patch for about a month, with no signs of broodiness and the skin is clean and intact. She slow molted over the fall - this does not appear to be part of that. It's January now, cold and rainy. She is almost 2 years old and has laid almost daily since she began over a...
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    What ARE these??

    ok though in the reading I've done about lash eggs, they all seem to come out larger and more egg shaped. As I don't know which hen laid these, do you think it is ok to give antibiotics to all 4?
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    What ARE these??

    I found these things close together under the roost this morning along with the expected poop. They came from one of my 4 RIRs, but I don't know which one frequents the end spot where these were found. The chicks were born last spring and are not molting, though only 3 of them have continued...
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    open door at night?

    Thanks for this. I'm going to work on smaller mesh over one corner, but generally I think it's secure. Here, we have racoons and inner-city rats. I do let mine free run in my small yard but only when I am home so I'd be alerted to cries of panic. Anecdotally, my cat hangs out with them and...
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    open door at night?

    Thanks, I'll review the security situation again.
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    open door at night?

    I have made a coop inside an old shed, directly connected to an outdoor run about 8 x10 ft. Wire ground cloth is dug down 10" to 12" all around it and built higher with 1/2", including over the top. The roof vents in the shed are covered in wire as well. The food and water are hung outside I...
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    first eggs as days shorten

    Yes, I certainly wasn't expecting eggs so soon! Thanks for the idea of just lighting at one end of the day - although right now I get up and open the door from the coop to the run in the morning and close it at night, so I might add lights at the end of the day for a few hours, maybe when it...
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    first eggs as days shorten

    Thanks. that's reassuring
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    first eggs as days shorten

    should have mentionned we are in Nanimo on Vancouver Island, BC Canada
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    first eggs as days shorten

    My 4 Rhode Island Reds are 16 weeks and two just started laying. It's the end of august and the days are shortening. I am a new chicken keeper and from what I read, chickens will lessen their egg production or molt in the fall/winter. Can anyone tell me what I might expect for my flock...
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