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    What time are hawks active?

    Regarding fake owls, I had one in about a quarter acre. I moved it every few days. It worked for several months, but my dearest chicken got caught in a corner and killed by a hawk. She was a little more adventurous and trusting than my other three girls. Towards the end of the summer I got a...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    I also advise not to put down. My hen went through two bouts. She had difficulty from birth. She is also the most scrappy. She pulled through, stopped laying for a few months and got stronger. Now she is laying again. I have found the laying saps her energy, and her eggs have turned white. I...
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    Brown eggs from Barred Rocks turning white... why would this happen

    My hen who has been battling Wry neck disease stopped laying for a few months. She is laying again but her normally brown eggs have turned off white. She also cries a lot and had done so since birth. Given her problems, I am glad she is still alive. She had two bouts of Wry neck and is very...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    I followed ChickCrack's dosages.My chicken still eats with her neck sideways. I suspect this condition was from birth since she was the one who cried the most and had trouble thriving at first. I wish you the best with your girl. Winterizing the shelter this weekend.
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    With my chicken, you really knew. Her neck went way down to the ground. She stopped being able to roost and lay eggs on the ground. Two people have great medication advice. This was my chicken's second episode. The first went away quickly. I started a daily regimen of 400iu vitamin E. I opened...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    Rocky actually stood on the roost all night last night. I will move to once a week and see how that goes. We are in the midst of repainting the house and, in my foggy state, I gave the wrong hen the regimen. Since I squeezed it on mealworms, I got no complaints. Oh, dear!Will have to get the...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    Just love this picture. While my Rocky is still weak, she seems to be improving and actually walked to the top of the ramp leading to my cickens'roost. We had been putting her alone in a rabbit hutch. I have been giving vitamin E twice a day, now once, selenium, and poly-visol. A day at a time...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    Thanks so much. I will get the selenium tomorrow. I couldn't find the poly visol everyone talked about in the purple box so got another for kids starting foods and w/o iron. It seems to have a lot of B vitamins in it, so I'm not sure of the B. Stupidly I got the softgel of the E. At first I...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    Thanks so much for answering me. How much selenium? And how much B complex? I started with Poly sol which had a lot less E than the 400 IU I then bought. I do have questions about the prednisone since I had an adverse response to it myself. I worry about giving a chicken steroids. I think...
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    My one and a half year old also has Wry Neck. I think she was afflicted from a very young age. She never stayed with the others. She cried a lot. The wry neck came out about six months ago. Nobody knew what it was. I gave her vitamins in her water--a form of gatorade--and she seemed to recover...
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    Does anyone here NOT vaccinate for fowl pox?

    I am a little confused about this. I started seeing black spots on legs which advanced to crest. Called vet who recommended a tetracycline product which is a powder you dilute in water. Seven days. Not to eat eggs? Would it go away with nothing? People here talk of it getting worse. And I am so...
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    What time are hawks active?

    I had my chickens at a friend's over the winter. She has lots of woods and a rooster. No one disturbed the hens who free-ranged all over. Now they are back, and so are the hawks: all day long. I live in an open suburban area in Michigan. The hawks are huge maybe because my neighbor has 12 very...
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    Anyone have "The Bungalow" coop from mypetchicken?

    Thanks so much for this answer. We probably will try on our own.
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    Anyone have "The Bungalow" coop from mypetchicken?

    I've just posted a question about the Bungalow Chicken Coop. I'd love to hear from anyone who has bought re: the best chicken coops for four chickens, particularly ones good in cold weather. We do have left-over shingles, so I'm figuring I'll need them; and, like I said above, we have a large...
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