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    Vitamins and antibiotics dosage questions

    After three weeks my Isa Browns have settled in to a routine. I enjoy spending time and just watching their surprisingly varied social life and personality types. I'm learning everything about chicken ranching for the first time. Here in West Africa, we give pullets three primary products...
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    New chicken rancher

    Thank you for a very comprehensive treatment plan. I am just beginning to appreciate how much I will need to learn in caring for our flock. I hope to post good news. Thank you again.
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    New chicken rancher

    Thank you for the welcome. I already have a question. One of our hens about four or five months has what looks to be an infection in her right eye. It is closed and swollen. I have washed the eye with an ophthalmic boric acid wash. Then I applied triple antibiotic to the closed eye for the...
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    Power outage!!!

    I am a newbie to this site and to chickens. Here in Africa where power cuts are a common event every day we keep a fully-charged gel cell 100 amp-hour battery and a 1,000-watt inverter on hand to power lights, fans, PCs, etc.
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    New chicken rancher

    Thank you for the welcome. I already have a question. One of our hens about four or five months has what looks to be an infection in her right eye. It is closed and swollen. I have washed the eye with an ophthalmic boric acid wash. Then I applied triple antibiotic to the closed eye for the...
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    New chicken rancher

    I am a missionary working in West Africa--hot, usually dry, dusty, poor, and most recently a target of Jihadists. We work with marginalized women--widows, abandoned and divorced wives, and unmarried. We teach them skills to allow them to earn enough to live--sewing by hand and machine, making...
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    Hello from West Africa

    Bonjour tout le monde, My wife Janet and I (Don) are missionaries in a West African country that must remain unnamed due to poor security conditions and repeated jihadist activity. We have lived here for almost six years. We are putting some finishing touches on a small, walled mission in the...
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