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    Sponsored Post It's HOT - Keep your birds feeling their best!

    Yes, something to take VERY seriously. I lost my two favorite girls today to the stifling heat in Austin, and have a third in critical condition. :( Have moved them to the climate-controlled garage for the rest of the week until I have time to make some improvements this weekend. A very sad day.
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    Alternatives to tube feeding?

    Hi all, I have a sick buff orpington who's been to the vet, and several hundred dollars later (!!) she's on 2x/day antibiotics (Flagyl) and 3x/day injections of Reglan. The vet suspected enteritis and crop stasis; her crop was full and mushy and she wasn't expelling waste. After two days of...
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    I didn't properly quarantine...what can I do?

    Hi everyone! First of all, thank you to all who posted and for your kind words of encouragement and suggestions. I'm happy to report that everyone is still alive and doing well. The new pullets are still in a separate run and I'm keeping things that way for another week or two, just in case. I...
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    I didn't properly quarantine...what can I do?

    Thanks FM. I appreciate the welcome and encouragement! I had set up the "quarantine run" just a few feet from Flo's coop, which apparently isn't ideal, either. Will look to relocate it to another part of my backyard today and keep the two environments separated for at least another 30 days...
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    I didn't properly quarantine...what can I do?

    Hi BYC peeps. I'll cut to the chase: I had two hens and one suddenly died a couple of weeks ago. Worried about my BO, Flo, being lonely, I bought two pullets a few days later and quarantined them in their own run; one died a couple of days later but the other has been fine for about 10 days now...
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