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    coonhounds!

    Yyeeeaaaahhh
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    Post Your First Egg Pics-Part 2

    Small chicken = small egg
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    Post Your First Egg Pics-Part 2

    Not my first egg ever, obviously, but Shirley the barred plymouth rock's first egg. Adorable! Her sister Laverne just started "assuming the position" so she should be egging soon too!
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    Is there a 'best' treadle feeder?

    I have a feeder similar to this, and I am always amazed how it can be outside through a thunderstorm and be bone dry on the inside when i bring it in at night. this thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C27CYDH1?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_8&th=1 i've waffled on getting the grandpa...
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    Calcium bolus please HELP

    Now go drink a bottle of wine and mourn your awesome hen who lived like a rock star!
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    Calcium bolus please HELP

    For what it's worth, if you got 7 years out of an ISA brown you kinda hit the lottery. It sounds like she had a confluence of ailments, and while I agree vets generally dont know jack squat about chickens, it's amazing she lived to be that old in the first place. Respectfully, I dont think you...
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    Calcium bolus please HELP

    I'm a 41 year old man who put down my pet ISA Karen last week. I cried like a baby and buried her next to her sister in our back yard. A pet is a pet. You gave Dawn more love and security than 99.999% of all chickens to ever walk the earth. I'm sorry for your loss.
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    Tapeworm ID?

    Appreciate the replies! Feed store was out of equimax but had the feline dewormer with 23mg of praziquantel so i grabbed that. She's a smidge over 5 pounds so I reckon ill entice her to eat one of them. Thanks for your insight. I did not observe movement of what I believe to be tapework...
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    Tapeworm ID?

    Karen is a 3 year old ISA brown. She has always had mostly wet poops, with solid normal poops mixed in. No other birds in my flock of 6 have ever had this similarity. She recently had an impacted crop that took about a week of TLC, electrolytes, probiotics, massages, and worrying to clear up...
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    Comment by 'CrimsonIdol' in article 'Chicken Poop Problems Solutions Are Here'

    After all these years, I've finally found the solution. A hose, a broom, and a dust pan! Why didn't ANYONE think of that before?!?!
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    All good this morning. Overnight her poops were all grainy and watery but she popped out of the coop this morning famished and took a huge, normal looking dump while she was eating. She just ejected one of the babies from the good roosting box (there are 5, but you know, only one good one) and...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    So back to this thread! Old girl (2.5 yo ISA) came out of the coop a little drowsy this am. She ate, but not much and not with her usual vigor. I checked my Webcam and several times during the day she stood in one place for 5-10 minutes without moving, but without sleeping. I came home and she...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    For roundworm ONLY (no other types of worms) dosage is .23 milliliters PER POUND once, and then again 10 days later. So if your chicken weighs 4 pounds, roughly 1 millileter (.92) on day 1, and then another millileter on day 10. Not .1 milliliter. Make sure you're reading your syringe correctly.
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    Pullet attacked by fox and saved by cockerel

    I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted so I made one out of a cutting board, a d20 motor, and a smart switch. Have a camera inside so i can make sure all the ladies are in and i can manually control the door or let it run on a schedule. We have electricity running to the coop. If I...
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    Do It Yourself, Non Prescription Dewormer/Deworming

    Thank you for the responses. I will not make any attempt to holistically prevent parasites in my chickens, other than keeping their environment clean. Should I discover worms, I will treat them with this...
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