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    Concerned about hens

    Yes the layer feed is out all day and in the evenings there are plenty left over when they go to bed. thank you for the diagrams. I will compare the diagrams to my girls this afternoon when I get home.
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    Concerned about hens

    Definitely. We do not have many of them.
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    Concerned about hens

    Yes all of them are 'bony'. So I agree that the vet just don't understand pet hens. But at least she knew chickens in general to treat her correctly for the chest infection. Thanx for everybody's imput:)
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    Concerned about hens

    Wonderful, that's good to hear. My girls are all very happy, busy and chatty. They love to explore and peck and scratch around. The one had a bad chest infection so I took her to the vet for antibiotics and she recovered fully. It was that vet that told me that it is not healthy for the...
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    Concerned about hens

    That's very good news, thank you. I feel at ease now. That vet then obviously are used to poultry bred for meat.
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    Concerned about hens

    Good day. My hens eat very well. I give them laying pellets, seeds and a vegetable every day. However their chest bones are very pronounced. A vet told me the other day that it is a concern but nothing else. My one hen weighs 2.2 kg which I understand is a good weight. Why is her chest...
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    Hard Questions For Me

    When I have a sick hen I take her to a vet. If they are unable to help her I have her euthanised.
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    When to cull old hens??

    My girls are pets more than egg producers so when they stop laying, they simply move in to retirement. I have a girl that is about 6. She stopped laying two years ago but she still gets her food, veggies and treats like the others girls. I feel that she worked hard to produce huge delicious...
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    Help! Large swollen abdomen on my new rescue hen

    I also adopted some ex battery hens a few years ago and they all end up with some kind of complication from the severe pressure to lay an egg a day 365 days a year. Two of them also got swollen lumps near the vent but it was hard and you could see they were uncomfortable. When I took them to...
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    New member

    I started with my pet chickens 5 years ago after rescuing a little black 5 day old chick from being trampled by a horse after his mother was killed by the same horse. The little one turned out to be a rooster and even though we live in a residential house my neighbours were very nice about it...
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