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    Keeping chicks warm without light

    I need to know how to keep my chicks warm without using the warming light. I read a thread on a mama cave with a heating pad that could stay on all the time does anybody have a name of the heating pad that would stay on all the time in a low setting
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    Ascites hen drained but not getting better

    I did a 3 day course of amoxicillin human variety about 100 mg aday if she was not acting well. I filled tiny gel caps with powder 50 mg morning and night. Pop open the beak and toss it in. She never choked and swallowed it because I gave her mealworms right after giving the capsule.
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    How To Get Chickens To Stop Pecking Another Chicken?

    Get peepers for the agressive ones. It stopped my hen from picking on one of my small ones. Instantly worked. My hen was jumping on a small sweet girl and grabbing her neck feathers and treadling her like she was a rooster. This activity was spreading to the others. One set of peepers on the...
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    Ascites hen drained but not getting better

    Mine lived with this for a year. She walked slower than the others but had a good last year eating drinking and sitting on eggs even though she did not lay. I drained her when she filled up. About once a month.I was very careful to cleanse her skin with betadine and used a sterile needle eacch...
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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    This is Ramona last summer. She got bumblefoot because she was walking with wide stance because of her fat belly so I would wrap her feet and put Neosporin on the bottom so she would not get infected. I wrapped her feet probably every other day and when they looked sore and uncomfortable...
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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    My Ramona a week before she died.Her belly fluid got so thick I couldnt drain it out.
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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    If you have a nurse friend get you some short IV tubing you can attach the needle to one end and a large syringe to the other end. After inserting the needle have second person draw back on the syringe . Having the tubing gives you lots of room to draw back on the neelde. Only insert needle til...
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    Laying hens with "water belly" or "ascites"?

    Must use large needle 18 G attached to a big syringe. There is a few utube videos . I did it . If chicken is calm you can do it .If you are inexperienced and chicken is wiggling you might hit wrong spot. I aimed for center of the "water balloon" below the vent and to the side . You can feel it...
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    Birdbath Heater for Winter Watering - No Aluminum?

    On amazon K and H ultimate 250 watt pail heater without floater.The past two years with my chickens in an unheated coop and I only have to change my water about my about every two weeks also keep a cover and it keeps the dirt from getting in.I live in Massachusetts and even on the coldest...
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    Need help please

    I feed my chickens free feed all day chicken feed and oyster shell. Daily kale and or collards green leaves and cooked oatmeal. Treats as they come from kitchen leftovers. Water is in 5 gallon buckets with heater so it won't freeze. Their run is plastic wrapped for the winter and has roof. Shed...
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    Need help please

    You mentioned you got three chickens from your brother. Is it a possibility they are bullying your chickens so they cannot eat properly drink or lay eggs in their nest that is a possibility that could be happening they are fearful and unable to lay eggs.I integrated 4 chickens that were babies...
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    Frostbite might be from water in bowl. They get wet waddles . A Heated 5gallon water bucket with side water nipples stops water on their combs so no frostbite.
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    Aha! Just found out poultry regulations for Vancouver, WA

    You need to find other chicken owners in town to fight together. Go to their meetings together. Stop this insane regulation. I bet dog rules are not so strict. Can you neighbors dog be 5ft from your property line?
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    My hen will not leave her nest (of 1 fake egg)

    Your comment about how to integrate young chicken's in with the established flock is pretty much how I did mine. Free ranging separately and allowing the Young chicks to explore the coop and run by them self without the older chickens in the flock being there worked really well. I have a very...
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    Wheezing hen!

    My chicken did this yesterday and I treated her with the vet RX I kept her in the house for a couple of hours I think what happened with her is she must have inhaled something and it caused her to wheeze. The other thought was she was put on the roost with older hens last night and she may have...
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