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    Advice needed from ppl with TINY flocks - about adding 2 new hens to 2 existing hens

    Thanks - we do have a small crate, but nothing that would work for a long term quarantine. It helped break a broody hen I had a few years ago, but she was in the crate in the run with her girls...
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    Dead chicken incineration

    I recently had a hen die and I double-bagged her and put her in the trash. Other than my personal guilt (because she was a gorgeous, friendly hen) I didn't think twice about whether the people at the dump would figure out where the double-bagged dead chicken came from. I figure with all the...
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    Advice needed from ppl with TINY flocks - about adding 2 new hens to 2 existing hens

    I know how you're supposed to add hens to regular flocks... 60 days quarantine... slow integration.... But I also know that's not reality for people with a TINY flock of 2-3 hens. I'm interested in how you handle it. I had 3 hens years ago. When they got old two eventually died and I was left...
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    One hen, adding another

    I am about to have a similar situation and don't really have a situation where I can fence of part of my run. I had 3 hens and I'm down to 2 and was considering adding 1 more... but thought maybe 2 is better. It is very hard to find good info for people who have flocks of 3 or less hens...
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    Live Naked Chickens - Need Help (pics) - I'm desperate for advice....

    I am desperate for advice because I am at a total loss. I have a small flock of 3 hens. Two of them (BA and RIR) are balding - badly. It is NOT molting because this has been going on for months and is only on the neck and butt. The RIR has a naked neck and butt, but normal feathers everywhere...
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    What's the verdict? Do you eat eggs after chickens have been dusted with Sevin dust? or toss them?

    This isn't to start a debate about Sevin dust because I already dusted my coop, run, nest boxes and my 3 hens two days ago. My hens were bald in several places and I assumed it must be mites. My question is, can I eat the eggs? I haven't found a definitive answer. I have a bag of eggs on the...
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    Eating eggs after treating with Sevin? Anyone?? Beuhler?? URGENT...

    arlee453 - THANK YOU for posting this. I've been scouring BYC like a nut all afternoon trying to find out if I can eat the eggs since my girls are laying A LOT and I just dusted everything with Sevin dust today. I'll admit to being a bit nervous about eating the eggs, but hopefully it's okay.
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    Is this feather loss on neck molting or mites? PICS - would LOVE opinions!! THANKS!!!!!

    I did nothing and the feather loss is worse. Their necks are bald now - they look like naked-neck chickens. I guess I hate to use Sevin dust if they don't have mites bc adding a chemical to them and the coop on a hunch didn't seem like the way to go. I've searched them and I don't see anything...
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    Is this feather loss on neck molting or mites? PICS - would LOVE opinions!! THANKS!!!!!

    I have 3 hens in my little flock - one (GLW) molted recently and the other 2 have never molted. All are about 18 months old and we live in FL where we're having a mild winter :) Two of my hens, a BA and a RIR, have bald necks. We have no rooster and they seem otherwise healthy and happy. Of...
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    Do they make a cheap NON electric movable poultry fencing?

    We ended up making a "chicken tunnel" that is not predator proof, but is chicken-escape proof... and it goes from their permanent run (which is just dirt/mud) out to their portable chicken tractor. This way they can get to some grass... it's not optimal or pretty, but it works. The tunnel is...
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    Bald butt below vent - not swollen - not likely EYP or bullying - small sore - pics. Thoughts???

    any ideas?
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    Bald butt below vent - not swollen - not likely EYP or bullying - small sore - pics. Thoughts???

    I've read about 12 pages of info on people with bald butt chickens, so apparently this is common. Most of the posters mentioned chickens who were swollen or distended in some way below the vent. My Australorp just turned one and now has a bald bum. There are no issues with pecking order - I only...
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    Would you ever add ONE silkie or ONE showgirl to a flock of 3 regular hens?

    I have three 7-month-old hens - a RIR, a BA and a GLW. It's always been my chicken fantasy to own a silkie or a showgirl, but I never run across one when I'm acquiring new chicks (this is my 2nd group of hens... my first group has since passed on...) So now I have a real-life chicken friend who...
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    Ascites?? Swollen, squishy abdomen - WITH PICS & VIDEO (page 9)

    oh tamtam - I'm so sorry :( It's never easy when you lose a pet, especially one that you've spent so much time nursing back to health with a chronic condition. You gave her a lot more months than she'd ever have gotten with anyone else.... You're definitely in my thoughts
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    Anyone know how to make Xmas ornaments from chicken feathers?

    The title says it all. I have chickens. I have feathers. I want to make some ornaments out of the feathers, but I don't know how. Any ideas?!?!? THANKS!
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