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    Please help me!! My hens cannot breathe and sulmet isn't working

    No, gapeworms will not cause bubble eye or runny nose but the Tylan 50 will take care of it quick tho. What kind of meds do you have coming on Wednesday?
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    And THAT'S how we take care of business in Mississippi!

    I got another one of these the other night myself. I went out the other morning to find that one had killed one of my pekin ducks the night before and she just started laying this past week too, talking about getting me ticked off! Ive shot 5 or 6 possums and 3 coons this year, they seem to be...
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    rooster attack!!!

    As anderson stated, there are ways of taming a roo if he has some meaning to you. I have done this with a RIR and a partridge rock in the past with very good results but it does take about an hour of one on one time every day for a week or so, so if you don't have a lot of extra time to spend...
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    Poorly Pekin

    this sounds an aweful lot like gapeworm. Do a search on here for gapeworm and see if it sounds like it to you. There are others on here who have had it and posted treatments for it. Hope you get it solved and save her, good luck to ya
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    Please help me!! My hens cannot breathe and sulmet isn't working

    If you have a TSC close by, go get a bottle of Tylan 50 and give them a .5cc injection in the back of the neck under the skin, not IM like the instructions call for. I just had the same trouble a week ago and nothing else was working and once I did that my prized Barnvelder hen was breathing...
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    Broodie Hen forgetting which nest she was sitting on

    your not out of luck yet so don't give up. I have had this happen with a couple hens and still had succesful hatches, at least the weather is not cold yet which will help cause it actually does a little good to have a cooling off period once in awhile as long as its not a real long period. the...
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    My New Bamtam Coop

    sure hope you are building that where you intend for it to stay cause it is gonna be a heavy one to move. looking very nice
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    injured hen gone missing, help!

    So sorry, and will send good thoughts as well. I have had this happen before as well and while its hard to do, don't give up hope yet. Go ahead and try to prepare yourself just in case she doesn't come home, but I have had a couple hens come home the next day and then my best silver pencil...
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    coop finished!

    Its a very nice coop, but I hate to be the one to tell you that by the looks of the grain pattern, knots in the wood, and the color of the wood that it is in fact cedar. some manufacturers of these kits do use cedar because it is weather and insect resistant. I have never seen any pine boards...
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    Questions About a Black Bantam Cochin

    Justin, well congratulations on adding another bird to your flock, and in my oppinion you have added a very nice one at that. You happen to be in luck tho cause she will do just fine adding her into the regular coop just like if she was a standard cochin. Don't worry about her getting picked on...
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    coon attack

    Quote: There's no way I was gonna let him out of the trap here. I might as well have not gone thru the effort of Trapping him in the first place. Thank you tho for the other info, I had no idea that it was illegal To rehome critters in some states, but if I did do that, I would have the...
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    coon attack

    Quote: I had thought that I had them in pretty protective housing, which is one of the reasons why I haven't lost any to predators in two years while living on 12 semi wooded acres in the country Of North Carolina. I'm pretty much surrounded by most critters that are available. I have...
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    coon attack

    I knew it was too good to be true. Its been almost 2 years since I started Keeping chickens and I never had any predator attacks. All of that changed 2 nights ago. Went out to the barn Saturday morning As usual and found one of the hens with no head or neck anymore and All of the other birds...
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    One Less Opossum.

    Must have been a night for possums to be out on the prowl last night. I Woke up at 12:30 last night with the feeling that something was wrong And that I needed to go check on the chickens. I have a 10'x12' shed converted into a nursery where I put chicks and raise them till Thay are big...
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    Y'all have me seriously worried (do I have a roo?)!! Pics added.

    I too, think you will have sweet dreams tonight, cause I think you have All pullets there. I have about a dozen rir hens and 1 roo, and my roo had A much larger comb and wattles at 4-5 weeks old. At 8 weeks, you would see An incredible difference between the two of them that it would be obvious...
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