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    HELP! Chickens ate all the milkweed plants!

    My chickens especially love the young milk weed plants (Euphorbia peplus), also named cancer weed, and I have now left it at that. I know many plants have folk names called milk weeds, so maybe the variety you talk about is different. I suspect like with mammals, something that has potential...
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    Comment by 'Christia' in article 'Herbs, Flowers, and Weeds for Chickens'

    There are various varieties of honeysuckles and since I started visiting this website, as well as many other websites related to chickens, I have read that honeysuckles are poisonous. I am not a botanist, but I assume you must be talking mainly about Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)...
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    Official BYC Poll: Why Do You Have Chickens?

    I have rescue chickens, which would have been culled or died.
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    Mealworms and chickens

    Being in animal rescue, we feed the mailworms differently with different supplements to their food, depending on what type of animal you are feeding. I give mealworms as an occasional treat to my chickens, but these mealworms are then fed on chicken meal, bran and calcium, with a bit of vit. D...
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    Sour crop in baby chicken?

    No, the eye was lost when the pullet was still a small chicken due to others pecking it, I was told. When I obtained them, they already had coryza symptoms. I took them as they were to be euthanised. The vet is of the opinion that the present swelling and infection of the eye socket is due to...
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    Sour crop in baby chicken?

    Thanks for asking - It died that same night. The remaining two are doing very well and my two older rescues are also well. The one with the one eye got an infection in the eye socket, so eventually I took them to the vet who says it is coryza, which I suspected, so I got them all on antibiotics...
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    Cold snap - should i bring my girls back inside?

    I think many people might differ from me, but I would rather bring them in if temperatures drop below 50.
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    Cold snap - should i bring my girls back inside?

    This is just my personal opinion, having grown up with chickens, and not grounded on any research. Also, being from Africa, that is fairly chilly for us. You didn't mention how many chickens you have, as they keep each other warm. I am sure they will be fine if they are strong and healthy, but...
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    Sour crop in baby chicken?

    I work with animals so I often deal with rescue animals. About a month ago I got two rescue chickens of about two months old that the owners wanted to euthanise due to some physical deformities. They are doing fine and I decided to get some baby chickens to eventually have a few backyard...
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