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    Keeping Sneezers Indoors?

    Oh darn, that makes sense. Thanks for all your great tips! If it is viral and they just need to tough it out, is it good that I'm keeping them indoors? It's a pain to clean, but if it ups their chances of survival I'll manage.
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    Keeping Sneezers Indoors?

    Kathy and Eggcessive, thank you for your replies! Because of the incredibly fast spread of the disease (from 1/4 to 4/4 in a few days) I'm banking on this being infectious bronchitis. I bought the chickens Duramycin. I put about 2.5g in their 1-gallon waterer, and sprinkled maybe 0.75g into a...
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    Keeping Sneezers Indoors?

    Oh dear, thank you for sharing! I'll try and get Vet-Rx today. Are they immune to colds after they get better, like people?
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    Keeping Sneezers Indoors?

    Hi all, I have four hens which are winter hardy breeds. I bought them recently and on the way home I noticed they had bits of sniffles, now they're all sneezing. I'm going to go to a store tomorrow and see if they have any antibiotics, but until then is it ok to keep them indoors? The...
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    New Silkies in Quarantine

    Thank you very much, Free Feather! I'll do exactly that. I think I'll quarantine them for a week and a half-- I'm going on a poorly-timed, 3-day trip about a week after getting them, and I'll start the introductions after I return. Until then I'm having someone care for them.
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    Share your inovative Ideas here!

    How absolutely adorable! And practical, too. I was so surprised to find my big barred rock hen loving her epsom salt bath and not minding a hot blow dry, chickens must appreciate the finer things in life.
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    New Silkies in Quarantine

    Hi everyone! I got my first chickens a week ago, four hens. One's a Rhode Island Red, two are Barred Rocks, and one is an Easter Egger. They all live in a coop in my backyard with no run (I let them free range when I'm at home and chase them back in the coop with relative ease). I live in SW...
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