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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    She’s on a course of antibiotics but it was egg material specifically. Last checkup she hasn’t put it back on yet and is acting mostly normal except she’s dropping feathers like crazy. I took her in because she was starting to have problems breathing. Including actually feel the liquid that...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    The one girl we drained (a 1.5lb runt buff Orpington) 300ml from looks okay but she will not eat her feed and will not drink water. She flips her head any time she touches water so I’ve been keeping her hydrated with blueberries… I’ve run through a thousand foods to feed her and keep her weight...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    What I wanted to get out of it essentially was the happiness of a clucking flock, my daughter having her favorite animals present. We weren't in it for the eggs, just the vibes. But the first death hit hard, two in tandem (I'm pretty sure its just a matter of time now..) is going to wreck her...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    I know this now! Haha. I enjoy the girls a lot in the overall, but I miss out on A lot of things with the family because I’m left to triage what’s happening at home. I have to struggle to find people To sit them when we go on week+ vacations. We’re literally “backyard chicken” People in that we...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Honestly, I think I’m done after this unless I can get 100+ birds … at least then I know I can’t keep up with specific health issues in a flock like that lol. The biggest thing is that these are my 6 year old’s Favorite animal — and technically pets so of course I’ve pushed myself to be vigilant...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Pretty much No.. they are confined to a run. unfortunately our town doesn’t allow Free range.
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Man that's crazy... I'm sorry for those losses! :( I guess these poor BOs aren't long for this world. Dang... I'm hoping my one girl is just molting. She visits the nest box though so... yeah! I totally thought it was just the heat before! .. But now its you know, in the low 70s and...
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    I got mine from a feed store associated with Agway, they took orders for breeds. I want to say they came in a Hoover hatchery box?
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Not excessive or overt I don’t think.. though there was a period last year when everyone was sneezing. Not like crazy but noticeable. My one girl has always had funky looking eggshells too. Does IB wreck them reproductively??
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    Ugh the worst that it’s so variable…
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    i knew I forgot something in my spiral. The internal layer is a runted Buff Orpington who, a week earlier was flying up onto people’s shoulders. The one with the funky eggs is a Delaware. She looks… genetically not sound (strange wing feathers that stick out, not great markings)
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    Did I get dealt a crap hand or….?

    My girls are 1 year and 4.5 months. We had 6 when we started. Lost a girl who showed very early maturation signs early (looked like a whole cockerel at 8 weeks, first laid at 13 weeks. Liver hemmhorage at 5 mins months) Now one of my girls, who has been laying and being normal, stopped laying...
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    My hens stopped laying

    What the heck. Two of my five stopped as well.. but it turns out one of them is internally laying… at a year and 4.5 months The other might be as well.. but I can’t tell. But she’s had funky egg issues for a month now. i Have no idea what the hell is going on…
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    Chicken Acting Weird

    How’d this turn out for you?
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    Poop check

    I’ve had her on calcium +d3 for 3 days now. Exact brand. They are on nutrena layer feed and free oyster shell. I noticed her eggs were getting bigger and bigger then they just starts to be soft shelled. Then she went from one to the other and now this. In Thinking about getting baytril from...
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