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    Friendliest chicken breed

    Buff Orpingtons and good old Isa Browns. Can't keep the Isa's off me when I'm in the coop! I also have Polish, a Salmon Faverolles, Houdans, an Australorp, bantam Pekins and Belgian D'uccles.
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    isa brown really sick

    Thanks Azygous. It's been difficult. Fortunately I have a concrete floor in the run. I am removing all straw and burning it tomorrow. Then disinfecting the whole area again. I sprayed the nest boxes, floor and dirt around coop and run with something an old farmer recomended before the chickens...
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    isa brown really sick

    To all those who replied, a big thank you first and foremost. The Isa Brown is about five weeks old. I am pretty sure it isn't a bullying issue. This is my first coop and I did read about having adequate food sources. I have 6 feeders. 2 inside the coop, and four outside undercover. They also...
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    isa brown really sick

    I have an isa brown called, Sweet Pea. She is a darling. The last 6 days she has been lying still. She is half the weight of the three Isa's I got at the same time. She is weak and lethargic. Doesn't move much at all during day. When she puts her head down to eat she doesn't have the energy to...
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    Sick Salmon Faverolles

    Birds holding on. I got a coccidiosis specific medication I have to add to water for seven days and administered a high protein feed. The salesman's advice after showing them the pics was to, "knock them over the head with a shovel and start again." I know they probably won't make it but I'm too...
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    This is not going according to plan!

    First time poster long time follower, 24 eggs in the incubator. Filming a segment for the producer of Better Homes and Gardens, a popular Aussie T.V. show, who are coming to visit my boss in two weeks. "Show the producer your eggs, " I said to my three year old nephew holding up my Iphone. He...
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