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    Leg Paralysis

    Thank you! I brought her to the vets yesterday. He gave her a really thorough examination, and said she had a viral infection. He gave her a steroid shot and she's on Baytril for the next 5 days. He said it's not too likely she'll pull through but it's worth trying. Today she's a little more...
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    Leg Paralysis

    Thanks, that was really helpful. She's barely moved an inch in the past 8 hours, still eating, but she did a poo a little while ago and it was all bright green. She's definitely deteriorating though. I'll be calling the vet first thing and doing what is best for her. I just hope if it is Mareks...
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    Leg Paralysis

    I searched the disease, her matching symptoms are not being able to stand, opening her mouth to breath occasionally, and earlier her poo had some green bits in it, but the whole poo wasn't green, so maybe that was just some vegetables or grass in it? She's tried to stand a few times now but...
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    Leg Paralysis

    Hi guys, I hope I'm posting in the right section. Yesterday I heard a lot of noise out the back garden and looked out of the window to see my 3 hens attacking my very small, ex battery hen. She was lying on the ground, not moving. I ran out and got her, they had drew blood from her comb, but...
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    New hens not allowed in coop, any advice?

    Thanks for the reply! For the first day I put the new hens in the run, but with my other hens having the whole garden to roam they weren't really near the coop/run, so they didn't really go to look at the newbies very much, then I put them all in the coop at night and my Bluebell pecked until...
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    New hens not allowed in coop, any advice?

    I I don't have pictures of my actual coop but this is the model I bought, hope these pictures are okay!
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    New hens not allowed in coop, any advice?

    Thanks for your reply! They are all vaccinated, wormed and treated for lice/mites so I did not quarantine. It's not a huge coop, made to fit 4 hens, but the new girls chose to sleep in the nesting boxes last night, and my other girls roost, so maybe I could split between the nesting boxes and...
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    New hens not allowed in coop, any advice?

    Hi everyone, 3 days ago I adopted 2 ex battery hens. 2 of my hens died in recent months, so I wanted to get another 2 to bring my total back to 4 hens. My Bluebell is quite a bully, I was expecting that she would be. She's been occasionally pecking at the new hens during the day, but they free...
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    Strange cooked egg white consistency, any ideas?

    That's great advice, thank you :) I'll definitely try that next time I'm having them.
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    Strange cooked egg white consistency, any ideas?

    Hi, nope they aren't complaining :)
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    Strange cooked egg white consistency, any ideas?

    I boil them on my electric hob, don't have a burner! I like mine well done so I leave them on for roughly 10 minutes from boiling!
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    Strange cooked egg white consistency, any ideas?

    Hi guys, I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas on what might be causing this. I love to hard boil my eggs from my hens, but when I do, the egg yolk comes out perfect, but the egg white does not firm up properly. It stays almost like a firm jelly consistency. It's really not a pleasant...
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    Ideal Surface?

    Hi, I'm a first time hen owner, I got 4 hens back in March. I have a coop with a small run which they sleep in at night, but they have the full use of my garden from morning until night. It's really well secured and predator free. To roughly describe my garden, there are 2 grass patches...
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