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    Help! i have an egg eating chicken

    will try the fake eggs and the mustard eggs if i can do it sounds like a delicate operation, they get to free range usually every day for a couple of hours in the afternoon they always come and eat the dogs food and get scraps as our dog isint a big eater. what kinds of food can you give them...
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    Help! i have an egg eating chicken

    I collect the eggs every day today i didint make down there until lunch time and there was just a small bit of shell remaining on the ground. it was only a couple of weeks ago we thought she must of been egg bound so she got treated with vasaline then she produced again haha she must of been...
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    Help! i have an egg eating chicken

    one of my chickens has started to eat its eggs. It has stopped laying in the nest box and is laying them in the dirt where it is difficult for me to reach then she is eating them. Is there another way to solve this apart from getting rid of her.
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    Mites, mites & MITES!!!

    i got some maldison 50 from the feed barn it was $36 but only need to use 5ml to 1ltr of water, we have sprayed the yard the coop and the chooks, its used by farmers on all kinds of animals for fleas, ticks mites and lice. they also said to use lime as a dust bath as the mites and lice wont...
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    Mites, mites & MITES!!!

    thanks iv made a note and i'll see whats available tommorow need to get it sorted out asap, what sort of damage can they do to the chooks.
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    Mites, mites & MITES!!!

    i got mites too hundreds of them when i go and get the eggs out of the nest box there all over my hand have to hose off before i go in the house my mites are very tiny and dark in colour, im off to the feed barn tommorow see if they have anything that would be like this DE stuff.
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    Very Runny Poop

    anyone have any idea? im starting to get worried.
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    Very Runny Poop

    Hi one of my pullets has had very runny poop (brown) almost water with a small firmish bit now for about 5 days and there seems to be a large amount of it that comes out with force!! no other symptoms other birds are fine. i thought maybe it could of been too much vegie garden treats so iv not...
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    hen stopped laying

    ok im happy now im sure the chickens are too dont think they appreciated me playing nurses on them
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    hen stopped laying

    hi this is my first post and would just like to say hello to everyone and thanks for all the great info available. im very new at keeping chickens, so far its been great and got my first egg earlier this week then 1 every day for the first 3 days now i havent had any for the last 2 days, im...
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