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    Copied Hennebunkport!

    Hi, there. I used the very rough drawings that Hennebunkport posted on this site and then adapted it to my needs. We sort of designed it as we went, but the basics came from Hennebunkport. It should still be on this site if you do a search. Here's a more recent photo with the run on the...
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    Is this a buff orph or americauna?

    Thank you! I knew it was a buff ..something. She is a love!
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    Is this a buff orph or americauna?

    I can't figure it out. She's a bantie and very cuddly.
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    One bantam has a sneeze/cough - i don't dare give her a shot

    Thank you. I'm glad your chick is better. Mine is better but still a little sneezy after 7 days of .5 cc of Tylan50. Tonight it will be 15 below zero but the coop is cozy at about 38-40 degrees, thank goodness. I think it's not as much fun having chickens in the winter - I feel guilty that...
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    One bantam has a sneeze/cough - i don't dare give her a shot

    Hi there. Here's an update on our chicken doctoring. We have so far given my wheezing and sneezing bantam one shot a day for two days Tylan50 (1.5 cc). Today is the third day and she is worse this morning with her coughing and sneezing. And she sounds more mucousy (is that a word?) today...
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    One bantam has a sneeze/cough - i don't dare give her a shot

    Thank you very much for this thoughtful and helpful reply. My son-in-law knows how to give injections, so we will be doing that today. I so appreciate your help! Groo
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    One bantam has a sneeze/cough - i don't dare give her a shot

    Good morning, all, and Happy Holidays! My one of my eight bantams (7 months old) has a cough/sneeze that seems to be getting worse. No other symptoms, she is eating and drinking as usual. I keep the coop clean (they were confined to the coop for 5 days because it was so frigid outside) and...
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    Bantam Easter egger laying issues

    Good morning. My little bantam, now six months old, was the first of her flock to begin laying - eight beautiful blue eggs a good month before the others. Since then she has not laid a single good eggs, but she HAS laid several rubber eggs while in the roost and yesterday I could tell she was...
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    chicken pop door winter question

    I have been wondering this same thing. The coop is snug and warm (well, relatively) until I open the pop door and then it acts like a chimney with the two gable-end vents up high. The temps drop pretty quickly once that little door is opened. I will keep it closed on frigid days, but what to...
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    Silkie won't roost, anything I can do?

    My two black bantam silkies go up onto the 4 foot high 2x4 roost with the other banties at night, but Heather, the white bantie silkie, stays on the lower roost all by herself (I have a ramp up to the lower roost just for her). She's kind of a clutz but so adorable and funny. I just worry that...
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    Newbie chick owner baffled by egg laying behavior

    Thank you, Both. I do live up North, in Maine. I'll keep watching her and let you know how we make out. I appreciate your responses. She is the only one of her flock-mates to have laid even one egg. Groo
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    Newbie chick owner baffled by egg laying behavior

    Hi, all. I have 22 week old bantams. Two weeks ago one Easter egger laid her first eggs, 5 over 10 days. Then all of a sudden she stopped. No egg now for an entire week. She sits in the nest boxes for hours but...nothing. Tonight I noticed a little white discharge at her vent. She is...
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    Crippled Banty

    Maybe I'll take her in to the vet and if he thinks it's hopeless, I'll have her put down.
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    Crippled Banty

    Thank you for your kind response. Splay leg sounds just the way it looks now. Ah, so very sad is this business. I don't even like to kill spiders.
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    Crippled Banty

    Hi, all. I have a crippled banty (19 weeks old). When she arrived at two days old, she had one leg that was a little lame but she could hobble around on the other one. As she has grown, the lame leg and foot are completely useless to her, in fact the leg is oftentimes out at an angle to her...
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