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    Sos Chicken With Maggots

    Pip's chicks : I use to be a vet tech for an animal hospital that only dealt with dogs and cats, but they would sometimes get wounds that had maggots in them too. I know this is going to sound really strange but starter fluid can be sprayed into the wound where the maggots are. It kills them...
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    Sos Chicken With Maggots

    Its a wound. Thanks for the advise, will rinse her now right away.
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    Sos Chicken With Maggots

    I only noticed that she had maggots maybe half an hour ago. She was sprawled on the floor. I rinsed her with cold water and tried to shake the maggots off of her. It is the most revolting thing ever! Can any of you's give me some advise? The poor thing is up and walking, but only if I rumage...
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    My success story on how I got my hens to lay.

    Quote: Yes, they were not being let out early enough and we are currently looking into installing a window! Thanks for the feed back
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    My success story on how I got my hens to lay.

    Quote: Ours were in a shed with very little light, thats why. Also, I forgot to put it in, if u put newspaper to chickens eye level and u can read it, then there's enough light. If you can't read it, there's not enough.
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    My success story on how I got my hens to lay.

    Quote: We have 8 sussex, 2 silkies, 2 australorpe and now 4 Lohmann 1-2 weeks from laying.
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    My success story on how I got my hens to lay.

    Hi, This is my first post, so please try to be nice. Before, I was getting 1 maybe 2 eggs a day. This is from 13 hens!! Then, after searching this site for various solutions, I read somewhere that they might not be getting enough light. This was the answer!! Chickens need 14-15 hours of light...
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