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    Need help dosing meloxicam

    She is a 2 year old buff laced Polish and had no laying problems prior to this. Just had a 4 year old Rhode Island red pass away while we were on vacation due to egg yolk peridiontis and autopsy said necrosis of her lady bits due to e.coli infection. I thought maybe it was the feed and switched...
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    Meloxicam dose

    Prescribed by my vet for my 4 lb hen. You will need a 3 ml syringe and draw it up to 2 ticks marks past the 1 for 1.2.
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    Need help dosing meloxicam

    I hope this helps someone else on the Internet looking for dosage info. I have a hen who was acting like she wanted to lay but would spend hours in the nest box with nothing to show for it in addition to being off. Lethargic and not interested in treats. Took to the vet had had a close to 400.00...
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    Sick chicken, neck stretching gaping, lethargic, loss of appetite

    Hi I am so hoping someone can help me with my Rhode Island Red Greta. She is two years old and up until about a week ago healthy. I did notice that she had droppings on her butt but since she was otherwise normal I didn't think much of it. Figured she might not squatting like the other girls to...
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    Pecking behavior

    Thanks everyone for the advice! I let Gertrude into the coop last night as she seemed so miserable. She immediately went into a nest box and slept there which I don't prefer but at least they wouldn't be fighting. I watched on my coop camera before the automatic door opened and they were getting...
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    Pecking behavior

    Sure I am feeding them Natures Best Organic Egg Layer Crumbles which is which says it is 16% protein. They have free access to food all day long. Here are some pictures of the run and coop. I inspected all of the girls and it looks like just one chicken has a wound. Greta had a lot of her...
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    Pecking behavior

    Hi, I have a rhode island red chicken that we have had since spring of 2020. Just yesterday I noticed that this particular chicken Gertrude was pecking at the rear of the other chickens (I have four total). I'm not sure what the intention was as I noticed she ate a feather that was on the ground...
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    Chickenguard Malfunction

    Hi, I'm hoping someone here has had a similar problem and can help. We purchased the Chickenguard Extreme model in May of this year and it has been working beautifully until this morning when it did not open. It has a low battery message on the display. Tried installing several packages of new...
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    Food and water in the coop

    My run is a converted dog kennel with the bottom half (about 3 feet) of the chain link covered in hardware cloth. We do not want to invest more hardware cloth (and money) into the run as we will be moving soon. Therefore it is not completely inpenetrable. Animals small enough to fit through...
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