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    How do you feed OATS to chickens?

    I feed it to mine dry. I mix brown rice (not cooked), cracked corn or scratch and oats. They love it.
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    Gone blind

    Hmmm..great link but the picture doesn't look like her eye. Her eye was completely clouded over like milk was in it. Weird. The other eye looks clear, but now I swear she can't see out of it. I was rubbing her chin and smoothing her "beard" down to get it away from her eyes and I could have...
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    Gone blind

    bumping
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    Gone blind

    I don't know what has happened to cause this, but my 3 year old Belgian Bearded Duccle has definitely gone blind. First it was only the right eye (it had turned a milky white and she obviously could not see out of it, by the way she acted) and now, though it hasn't turned milky, she seems to not...
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    Chicken Hawk SwoopsDown On Chickens

    JJThink, I am pretty sure I checked her over pretty good, and she is back to seemingly normal now, so I think the only marks are the ones I saw. No broken skin, just missing feathers. The beak had a small wound, but it's better now too. They haven't came out of the coop since..poor girls. And...
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    Chicken Hawk SwoopsDown On Chickens

    Happy New year!!
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    Chicken Hawk SwoopsDown On Chickens

    Yesterday a hawk (red tail?) took one of my Belgian Bearded Duccles! I heard a ruckus while I was cleaning and looked out to see it flying across the yard with the poor girl screaming! My husband yelled at it and ran out. I opened the window from the room I was in and told him where I saw the...
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    twisted neck

    Is that right? I never thought about food poisoning!? Though I am very careful not to give them things with excess salt (no salt on rice or veggies in our house, unless it's at the plate. Usually they do eat all scraps put out, but I'll have to keep watch for left over scraps. The only thing...
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    twisted neck

    Thanks everyone. I'm now adding the suppliments to the girls feed once a day in the oatmeal and mixing it in. They have always gotten table scraps (leftovers), fruit, bread, rice, eggs, meat..etc. I hope this never happens again.
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    twisted neck

    She didn't make it...
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    twisted neck

    so, are you saying to mix the vitamins intended for the waterer into the oatmeal in the amount recommended for the waterer and then just mix the oatmeal into their feed? I could do that! Uncooked oatmeal?
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    twisted neck

    dlhunicorn, that's excellent advice and I'm sure the rest can benefit from vitamins as well. The main reason I've never even looked into it is because we have an automatic waterer and it's impossible to add suppliments to it so I'd have to add an additional waterer (I could do this). Is there a...
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    twisted neck

    dlhunicorn, that is a LOT of info on twisted/limber neck. I have never seen it with my chickens before and at first (at least a month ago), when she first started leaning her head, I didn't think a lot of it, because upon watching her, she'd correct it an go about her chicken business. She just...
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    twisted neck

    Poison Ivy, that IS a great resource! And I agree with you Cutestchickenfarmer, it does sound just like Botulism. She now seems to be almost paralized in the legs and doesn't seem to move her wings either, so I'm not sure about them? She can untwist her neck long enough to peck at food for a few...
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    twisted neck

    I don't think she's going to make it. She's much worse the last couple of days. She doesn't get up anymore, but she eagerly eats when I bring her inside and give her food. Then she goes back to sitting there. I don't know what to do for her and I can't even think about the humane thing to do....
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